Whole adult fly brain connectome for FAFB (female adult fly brain) – last year in preprint form, today as an immersive feature in Nature.
140,000 neurons, over 50 million synapses – organised into over 8,000 cell types. (VNC not included.)
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-024-00053-4/index.html
The whole connectome: Dorkenwald et al. 2024 (Seung, Murthy) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y
Cell types: Schlegel et al. 2024 (Jefferis) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07686-5 by @uni_matrix
Network statistics: Lin et al. 2024 (Murthy) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07968-y
Visual system: Garner et al. 2024 (Wernet, Kim) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07967-z and Matsliah et al. (Murthy, Seung) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07981-1
Seung also put out a solo paper on predicting visual function from the connectome: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07953-5
Control of halting in walking: Sapkal et al. 2024 (Bidaye) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07854-7
FAFB imaged by @davi 's group back in 2018: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30787-6
I also wrote a little blog post about the "unsung" behind-the-scenes heroes on the FlyWire project: https://flyconnecto.me/2024/10/02/flywire-is-live-%f0%9f%9a%80/
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