ICYMI a revision of our fly optic lobe paper dropped on Monday. It’s OK, I know you were frantically finishing your 1040. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We would like to congratulate our colleagues Janelia Fly EM Michael Reiser | michaelreiser.bsky.social for releasing their optic lobe reconstructed from a male fly. We have been waiting to compare with our female optic lobe, and now we finally have the opportunity! x.com/HHMIJanelia/st…

We show its conservation from🪰to humans thanks to FlyWire. Interestingly, it’s only present in a small # of🪰neurons: the rare ones w/ actin-based spines similar to vertebrate spines. This hints that SA is co-evolving with the actin-based spines (2/n)

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Results of the Visual Columns Mapping Challenge coming soon... codex.flywire.ai/app/visual_col…

Results are in for the Visual Columns Mapping Challenge. Congratulations to winner David García-Soriano! 4 contenders improved the benchmark mapping from Codex. Results: codex.flywire.ai/app/visual_col… Next challenge coming summer '24. Sign up to be notified: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

A tree shaped as a fly brain. You will understand this only if you have dissected a fly brain 😂 . KingsFlyNeuro FlyWire FlyBase Drosophila Research and Training Centre

We updated our preprint on bioRxiv and added another level to our investigation of the modulatory inputs to Insulin-Producing Cells in flies with the analysis of synaptic inputs using the #connectome from FlyWire 🪰 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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The discovery of neurons in the Drosophila optic lobe with hue-selective properties; a connectomics-constrained circuit model shows that this relies on recurrent connections Rudy Behnia @Gucky92 Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Columbia University FlyWire nature.com/articles/s4159…

The fly has a full #connectome, basically a directed + weighted graph. But what are its connection ‘signs’, excitatory/inhibitory? We move towards this answer, predicting transmitters from EM! w/Nils Eckstein, vid Amy Robinson Sterling, 1/n Published Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

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Join us for The FlyWire Data Challenge Award Lecture Presented by Dr. David García-Soriano at Princeton Neuroscience Institute Thursday June 13 at noon US ET  Duration: 30 minutes RSVP for a link to the livestream: shorturl.at/NZYSZ

This one is very close to my heart, proudly sharing our newest preprint “Comparative connectomics of the descending and ascending neurons of the Drosophila nervous system: stereotypy and sexual dimorphism”. A short summary of this project that was 4 years in the making:

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Entering the era of comparative connectomics. Figure 1: Reconstruction and identification of 3 neuronal classes across 3 datasets. New Dr Kathi Eichler @[email protected] et al preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you’re at the Berlin Connectomics event and interested in fly connectomes, find Arie Matsliah minsu | 민수 Albert Lin. Bonus they have a few 🔥🔥posters

At BRAIN Initiative conference in DC. Come see FlyWire demo tomorrow at 8:45

If you like coding and problem solving, check out this unique connectomics data challenge organized by FlyWire at Princeton Neuroscience Institute: codex.flywire.ai/app/mfas_chall… Sign in & agreement to terms required, deadline Sep 30