RT @UniLeipzig: Researchers, including Dr Katharina Eichler from #UniLeipzig, have created the first reconstruction of the structure of a #…

RT @DavidCRowland: Here it is! A huge milestone in neuroscience – the complete connectome of the fly brain from the FlyWire team (@FlyWireN…

RT @dddavi: Re: 'unsung' heroes @zhihaozheng acquired 80% of the images in the FAFB dataset while in my lab, then did beautiful (IMHO) anal…

RT @gsxej: Big day for neuroscience & the end of the beginning for whole brain connectomics. Shout out to @sdorkenw and Philipp Schlegel, f…

RT @Nature: Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail

RT @gsxej: Zoom into the #flywire fly brain courtesy of another of Philipp Schlegel's (@flyconnectome @CamZoology @MRC_LMB) amazing 3D sequ…

RT @FlyWireNews: Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the c…

RT @alin1194: Thrilled that our papers mapping and analyzing the connectome of the complete brain adult fruit fly, including our work with…

@RibeiroCarlitos @drosofriend Thanks Carlos :)

RT @RibeiroCarlitos: Let’s read something interesting and not that depressing stuff flooding the news. Entering the era of comparative #con…

@OKaneCahir Very cool, thanks Cahir! Will let her know, she left this platform a while ago.

RT @FlyWireNews: Entering the era of comparative connectomics. Figure 1: Reconstruction and identification of 3 neuronal classes across 3 d…

RT @SebastianSeung: The ventral nerve cord (analog of our spinal cord) is the interface between the fly brain and body. The communication c…

Big thanks to our collaborators at FlyEM @HHMIJanelia and labs of Gwyneth Card, Wei-Chung Lee @darbly, Sebastian Seung @SebastianSeung, Mala Murthy, John Tuthill @casa_tuthill and @flyconnectome.Greg Jefferis @gsxej and I are looking forward to comments, suggestions and feedback.

We describe stereotypy and sexual dimorphism in the nerve cord and analyze exemplary circuits to show the power of this assembled dataset.

To do so, we systematically identified descending neurons with the help of light microscopy images in a brain (FAFB/FlyWire @FlyWireNews) and two ventral nerve cord connectomes (FANC/MANC) and analyzed the resulting circuits from sensory input to motor output.