The fly central brain synthesizes sensory stimuli into decisions and actions. For the first time, ALL 46,944 branched and far-reaching neurons of both hemispheres of the central brain have been reconstructed and are available via FlyWire. join.flywire.ai

Dear Colleagues, we are actively recruiting a PhD student this year. Please RT or notify someone who might be interested. You can read about the work of our most recent graduate István Taisz in this tweeprint x.com/GaliliDana/sta…

We've got an open position for a 2y Research Assistant in our group Dept of Zoology Cambridge University, to contribute to the generation of the 1st adult fly CNS #connectome. Suited to BSc or MSc, looking for research experience before #PhD. Closing 18 Dec: bit.ly/3XBRGZp

Please help to spread the word! We're a friendly and supportive group, with a great track record in helping people get on to PhDs. #Drosophila #connectomics

[1/11] David Tadres and I are excited to share new research doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… where we show that olfactory sensory neurons undergo silencing due to depolarization block at ethologically relevant odor concentrations. #olfaction #chemosensation #behavior

Cool preprint alert: Philip Shiu et al simulate a fly brain using the FlyWire community connectome. Marta Costa Greg Jefferis Alexander Bates Nils Eckstein Jan Funke Salil S Bidaye Stefanie Hampel Andrew Seeds Gabriella Sterne, Ph.D. ++ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Flies sniff out the 'what' and 'where' of other flies. Now out authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…. Lovely new recordings of neuronal responses to a freely-walking male confirm active contrast between two antennae allows flies to 'see' each other using smell. Cell @MRC_LMB 1/2

Delighted that Fly Connectome group Dept of Zoology (and local collaborators @MRC_LMB) could play their part in finishing this major new #drosophila #connectome supported by Wellcome. Tweeprints coming soon, but links to data, tools and papers already at janelia.org/project-team/f…

A consensus cell type atlas from multiple connectomes reveals principles of circuit stereotypy and variation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses! Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai Reconstruction paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Annotation paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6

Building the FlyWire #connectome from the FAFB brain was a massive team effort. But neuroscientists need to find their favourite neurons in this huge dataset. We report an indexed parts list, systematically annotating all 127k neurons (Schlegel et al biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) 1/7

Would you like to shape the future of connectomics ... even neuroscience? Fresh from finishing the two largest connectomes ever, we have post-doc and research assistant positions in the Fly Connectome group Dept of Zoology (collab w @MRC_LMB Scott Waddell Janelia Fly EM) Pls RT 1/4

Many congratulations to Dr. AP Sane, Dr. VA Sane & their team for the research article  "The tomato EAR-motif repressor, SlERF36, .......... responses" published in Plant Biotechnology Journal (IF 13.8). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Jagarnath Jai CSIR, India Dr Jitendra Singh N Kalaiselvi

Excited to share my first author postdoc paper in Developmental Cell cell.com/developmental-…

Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium! nature.com/immersive/d428… Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today

🎉 Excited to share our collaborative work on the anterior visual pathway is now published! Check it out: nature.com/articles/s4158… Huge congrats to everyone involved! 👏

Big day for neuroscience & the end of the beginning for whole brain connectomics. Shout out to Sven Dorkenwald and Philipp Schlegel, first authors of the connectome papers, Murthy Lab Sebastian Seung for establishing #flywire to make this possible and Davi Bock for birthing this dataset.

Zoom into the #flywire fly brain courtesy of another of Philipp Schlegel's (Fly Connectome Dept of Zoology @MRC_LMB) amazing 3D sequences. Then read his piece on the flyconnecto.me blog to find out more about how the #connectome became a reality flyconnecto.me/2024/10/02/fly….

It's warming to see the traction our #flywire fly brain connectome is getting. To highlight one neat thing: w/ Yijie Yin and V. Hartenstein we mapped out the developmental building blocks of the brain ('hemilineages'), enabling us to group neurons by their evo-devo origins: