JJBA 2023 | June 28-30, 2023

The first edition of the Young Bioacousticians' Days took place from June 28 to 30, 2023, near Saint-Étienne, more specifically at the Hameau des Échandes in Unieux. The creation of this event stemmed from a desire to promote bioacoustics and facilitate networking between students and young researchers in order to encourage dialogue.

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Oral communications
Oral communications of 13 minutes (+5 minutes of questions) will be divided into 6 scientific sessions. Participants whose abstract will be accepted by the organizing committee will have the opportunity to present their recent scientific results.

Plenary Conferences
Three plenary conferences of 45 minutes (+15 minutes of questions) will be held by experienced bioacousticians. These conferences will provide a unique opportunity for students and young researchers to attend presentation of major works in their field and exchange with established researchers.

Speakers

Katarzyna Pisanski
Permanent researcher (CNRS), Language Dynamics Laboratory at (University of Lyon), in collaboration with the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory of ENES.

Her research focuses on understanding the origins, development, mechanisms and functions of acoustic communication in mammals, including our own species.
She has achieved great success as a researcher with over 75 peer-reviewed research articles and chapters (half of which she is first or last author) published in leading journals in general science, psychology, acoustics and biology, including Nature, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nature Communications... Today, she has over 3400 citations.
She will do us the great honor of being present at this event and will be a source of inspiration for many students who will be delighted to exchange ideas with her.

Yves Bas
Permanent Researcher ( National Museum of Natural History, Paris), CESCO

Yves Bas's research lies at the intersection of ecology, acoustics, and computer science. He has devoted increasing amounts of time to developing innovative and efficient software and algorithms to overcome the challenges of analyzing passive bioacoustic data (long-term acoustic recordings). Today, the tools he has developed are used systematically in monitoring numerous species, particularly bats. Bioacoustics is a multidisciplinary science, and Yves Bas's research will help us understand how, by combining these different areas of expertise, we can develop high-performance systems.

Julie Elie
Permanent Researcher (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

The Young Bioacousticians' Days will also have the honor of welcoming Julie Elie for a plenary lecture. She is a neuroethologist passionate about vocal communication. She is interested in how animals and humans produce communicative sounds and why they do so. For 15 years, she has studied the vocal and social behavior of a bird: the zebra finch. Her research has focused on the perception of social vocalizations and their role in social bonding in this species. More recently, she has begun exploring vocal communication in the Egyptian fruit bat, studying the neural pathways of vocal production and the level of vocal plasticity in this species. Her work combines behavioral and neurophysiological experiments with advanced analyses in bioacoustics and neural modeling.

Workshops and roundtables

Workshops
The symposium will also offer various scientific workshops allowing participants to work together on integrating recent technologies and tools (sound signal processing software, recording equipment, biodiversity monitoring protocols, etc.). Led by specialists in the field , these interactive workshops aim to provide prticipants with new research perspectives .

Deep learning and bioacoustics

Significant progress has been made in bioacoustic research thanks to deep learning algorithms. Recent scientific articles on the use and development of bioacoustic classification models all employ convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This skills presentation will enable participants to gain fundamental knowledge of CNNs to better understand how they are implemented to create an acoustic classification model. Participants will be introduced to the theoretical foundations of 2D CNNs and then to audio processing in Python. Finally, participants will build a CNN to classify the vocalizations of Hainan gibbons, a critically endangered species. The same approach could be applied to other species.

Speakers:

Lorène Jeantet

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General assembly
A general assembly will be helded on Thursday, June 29 to discuss the future of the colloquium and ensure its sustainability. The objective of this general assembly is to present the colloquium project as a whole, to discuss the points to be improved based on the 1st edition and to recruit volunteers to support the organization of next editions.

Social events
Regular breaks will punctuate the conference to promote scientific exchanges. A dinner of local specialties and a gala dinner will also be organized in order to create links between the participants. The transdisciplinarity being at the heart of this symposium project, the objective is to facilitate exchanges between scientists from different backgrounds in a friendly, enthusiastic and productive atmosphere.

Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team

The young bioacousticians of the Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team (ENES) will ensure the organization of this symposium.

ENES research themes are organized around bioacoustics. Rooted in the ethology, ENES also deals with thematics of neuroscience and animal physiology. More recently, the work of the laboratory is oriented towards subjects specific to ecology through population monitoring studies and the impact of noise pollution on these populations.