VIRTUAL ICM SEMINARS | Sven Dorkenwald 'Towards whole-brain Connectomes: Reconstructing neurons...'

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Sven Dorkenwald 'Towards whole-brain Connectomes: Reconstructing all neurons in a fly brain at nanometer resolution'

Abstract
Comprehensive neuronal wiring diagrams derived from Electron Microscopy images allow researchers to test models of how brain circuits give rise to neuronal activity and drive behavior. Due to advances in automated image acquisition and analysis, whole-brain connectomes with thousands of neurons are finally on the horizon. However, many person-years of manual proofreading are still required to correct errors in these automated reconstructions. We created FlyWire to facilitate the proofreading of neuronal circuits in an entire fly brain by a community of researchers distributed across the world. While FlyWire is dedicated to the fly brain, its methods will be generally applicable to whole-brain connectomics and are already in use to proofread multiple datasets. In this talk I will describe how FlyWire’s computational and social structures are organized to scale up to whole-brain connectomics and present on our progress towards the generation of a proofread whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly.

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