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All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

Excited to announce the completion of the first adult brain connectome - FlyWire is the neuronal wiring diagram of a Drosophila melanogaster brain with >130K neurons and >32M synapses. Explore at codex.flywire.ai. Check out the preprints:

One quick teaser - Dudi Deutsch and Kaiyu Wang identified nearly all sexually-dimorphic neurons brainwide - now possible to trace information flow for social communication and female-specific behaviors. Here is a subset of fru/dsx neurons (render from Albert Lin):

A new study by Albert Lin "Tony" Runzhe Yang et. al. has analyzed the statistical properties of the whole adult fly brain, comparing connectivity of neuropil (brain regions) in the fly and drawing comparisons between species. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… animation: Amy Robinson Sterling

Congratulations to the newest class of the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN)! The 75 talented undergrads will gain hands-on research experience under the mentorship of early career scientists incl. grad students & postdocs. simonsfoundation.org/2023/09/26/sim…

Introducing a new connectomic dataset of the adult fly central nervous system: the Brain And Nerve Cord (BANC). Tomorrow 11a ET at FlyWire’ town hall. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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/…

We are excited to share educational materials designed to bring FlyWire into classrooms! We have designed interactive lessons to be used by high school and college teachers, instructors, or scientists doing outreach. Check it out: codex.flywire.ai/academy_home Image by Perception

Papers reporting the fly whole-brain connectome were published in nature today 🎉 and it was my honor to write a News and Views about them Congrats to Sven Dorkenwald, Sebastian Seung, Murthy Lab, Greg Jefferis, and the FlyWire team! + great 🧵 below from David nature.com/articles/d4158…

A team led by Princeton Neuroscience Institute's Mala Murthy (Murthy Lab) and @sebastianseung has mapped a fly's entire brain — a new step in understanding brain diseases in humans. bit.ly/3BCz1pz

The first wiring diagram of the whole brain of a fruit fly, containing around 140,000 neurons and over 50 million connections, is presented in a paper in nature. go.nature.com/3BChkqa

News: Researchers fully map neural connections of the fruit fly brain nih.gov/news-events/ne…