I have been looking forward to this paper for so, so many years and it does not disappoint. So, so cool @debivort

During grad school in Michael Eisen’s lab, I found some fuzzy dead flies in my backyard. I knew these flies had been killed by Entomophthora muscae, a fly-specific, behavior-manipulating pathogen.

Meet our 2022 cohort of Next Generation Leaders: 🧠 Prof. Constantina Theofanopoulou 🧠 Heather Snell, PhD 🧠 Karthik Shekhar 🧠 @KaueMCosta 🧠 Leena Ali Ibrahim 🧠 Tahra Eissa Now in its ninth year, early-career scientists in this program help to advise our #neuroscience research. alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/bra…

Eye structure shapes neuron function in Drosophila motion vision biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

The emerging connectome, or synaptic wiring diagram, of the Drosophila brain has transformed fly circuit neuroscience. But the ventral nerve cord, which mediates limb proprioception and motor control, has lagged behind. We set out to fill this gap. 🧵1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How useful is a connectome? We show that you can predict quite a bit about the neural activity of a circuit from just measurements of its connectivity. Led by star graduate student Janne Lappalainen, collaboration with Jakob Macke. #connectome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 1/n

Interested in brain mapping and #connectomics, from synaptic level (EM) to whole-brain projections (#lightsheet)? Sign up for our Cajal School on Connectomics in Bordeaux next September! Deadline is Apr. 17th cajal-training.org/on-site/connec…

Excited to share our new paper on primary cilia in the brain! 🧠 We used advanced #EM volumes from #connectomics to study primary cilia structure and location in mouse visual cortex. They’re not just in neurons but also in astrocytes and OPCs! (1/2)

This new paper adds a lot of insight, data and genetic tools from sharp thinkers about the fly visual system, but the virtual erasure of the similar maps of the female fly produced by FlyWire is disappointing and will leave readers with a false understanding of its context.

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