The DARSA Group

The DARSA Group

Digital Approaches for Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture

Aarhus University

Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics

About us

The Digital Approaches for Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture (DARSA) group is part of the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (QGG), at Aarhus University. Within DARSA, we develop and apply remote-sensing tools and innovative open-source machine-learning methods to make agroecosystems more productive, sustainable and resilient. We collaborate with other members of the QGG as well as with other researchers in Aarhus and worldwide to target both the breeding and production sides of agriculture. Amid severe environmental crises, we aim to lead a new, digital and sustainable, green transition. The DARSA group recently started, and we are actively looking for collaborators and new members, so do not hesitate to contact us.

Interests
  • 🧠 Development of Deep-Learning Tools
  • 🐛 Automatic Monitoring of Agricultural Pests
  • 🌱 High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping
  • 🌳 Agroecology and Biodiversity

Publications

Year Title Journal Authors
2024 Machine learning reveals singing rhythms of male Pacific field crickets are clock controlled Behavioral Ecology Westwood et al.
2024 Towards a standardized framework for AI-assisted, image-based monitoring of nocturnal insects Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Roy et al.
2024 Order among chaos: high throughput MYCroplanters can distinguish interacting drivers of host infection in a highly stochastic system bioRxiv Chen et al.
2024 Computer vision and deep learning in insects for food and feed production: A review Computers and Electronics in Agriculture Nawoya et al.
2023 Hierarchical classification of insects with multitask learning and anomaly detection Ecological Informatics Bjerge et al.
2022 Sticky Pi is a high-frequency smart trap that enables the study of insect circadian activity under natural conditions PLOS Biology Geissmann et al.
2019 Most sleep does not serve a vital function: Evidence from Drosophila melanogaster Science Advances Geissmann et al.
2019 Rethomics: An R framework to analyse high-throughput behavioural data PLOS ONE Geissmann et al.
2017 Ethoscopes: An open platform for high-throughput ethomics PLOS Biology Geissmann et al.
2016 MEANS: python package for Moment Expansion Approximation, iNference and Simulation Bioinformatics Fan et al.
2015 Dynamics of Copy Number Variation in Host Races of the Pea Aphid Molecular Biology and Evolution Duvaux et al.
2013 OpenCFU, a New Free and Open-Source Software to Count Cell Colonies and Other Circular Objects PLOS ONE Geissmann

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