Tag: <span>connectomics</span>
FlyWire is live! 🚀
Almost exactly a year ago we blogged about the finished map of the fruit fly brain. Today, we celebrate the publication of the two (much improved) papers – one led by the folks in Princeton, one led by us – that jointly describe this “FlyWire” brain dataset in Nature: See […]
2024 Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium
The Drosophila Connectomics group made a strong showing at CNS2024: Sleep, Consciousness & Cognition, an all-day neuroscience symposium on 5 April at Queens’ College in Cambridge. The symposium featured four sessions of talks on neuroscience and philosophy of mind, including a closing plenary by Anil Seth (University of Sussex), author […]
We mapped the full adult fly brain!
by Yijie Yin Another milestone in Fly Connectomics has been achieved! We are happy and *deeply* honoured to have contributed significantly to the mapping and annotation of the first synapse-resolution, full brain connectome of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (‘Full Adult Fly Brain’, FAFB dataset1). The adult fruit fly is […]
Cambridge Festival 2023: Exploring Drosophila Connectomics with Kids
by Marcia Santos, Marina Gkantia, Yijie Yin, and Eva Munnelly Cambridge Festival is one of the biggest annual events of its kind in the country and is a highlight in everyone’s calendar. It is a collaborative effort involving many institutions and this year took place between the 16th of March […]
What’s Connectomics Got to Do with It?
How Brain Mapping Helps Scientists Study the Brain Christopher Dunne There is widespread variance in peoples’ natural abilities and inclinations toward different subject areas from mathematics to the arts. Neuroscientists have often been interested in what differences in the brain lead to such differences in skills and have sometimes looked […]
Testing the water
All animals have a preferred temperature range, whether they’re crocodiles basking in the sun or a naked-mole rat burrowing underground. Being able to accurately sense environmental temperature (thermosensation) is a life or death scenario: too hot and the animal risks overheating whereas too cold can bring about hypothermia. Understanding how […]