June 2018

By Philipp Schlegel

June’s neuron of the month is one of the excitatory uniglomerular olfactory projection neurons (PN). It receives input from Or82a-expressing sensory neurons in the VA6 glomerulus of the antennal lobe and responds to e.g. ethyl butyrate, a fruity odour. This PN is exemplary for the successful collaboration in the FAFB dataset: in total 14 different people from 4 different labs contributed to the reconstruction of this neuron (~15h in total). Each color in the video is a unique user. See also Zheng et al., bioRxiv (2017).