[HTML][HTML] What is a cell type and how to define it?

H Zeng - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cell types are the basic functional units of an organism. Cell types exhibit diverse
phenotypic properties at multiple levels, making them challenging to define, categorize, and …

Neuronal cell-type classification: challenges, opportunities and the path forward

H Zeng, JR Sanes - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Neurons have diverse molecular, morphological, connectional and functional properties. We
believe that the only realistic way to manage this complexity—and thereby pave the way for …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of neocortex: Organelles, compartments, cells, circuits, and activity

NL Turner, T Macrina, JA Bae, R Yang, AM Wilson… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We assembled a semi-automated reconstruction of L2/3 mouse primary visual cortex from∼
250× 140× 90 μm 3 of electron microscopic images, including pyramidal and non-pyramidal …

A complete electron microscopy volume of the brain of adult Drosophila melanogaster

Z Zheng, JS Lauritzen, E Perlman, CG Robinson… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Drosophila melanogaster has a rich repertoire of innate and learned behaviors. Its 100,000-
neuron brain is a large but tractable target for comprehensive neural circuit mapping. Only …

[HTML][HTML] Toward an integration of deep learning and neuroscience

AH Marblestone, G Wayne, KP Kording - Frontiers in computational …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Neuroscience has focused on the detailed implementation of computation, studying neural
codes, dynamics and circuits. In machine learning, however, artificial neural networks tend …

Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex

MICrONS Consortium, JA Bae, M Baptiste, CA Bishop… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
To understand the brain we must relate neurons' functional responses to the circuit
architecture that shapes them. Here, we present a large functional connectomics dataset …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of motor control circuits in adult Drosophila using automated transmission electron microscopy

JS Phelps, DGC Hildebrand, BJ Graham, AT Kuan… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
To investigate circuit mechanisms underlying locomotor behavior, we used serial-section
electron microscopy (EM) to acquire a synapse-resolution dataset containing the ventral …

Feature detection by retinal ganglion cells

D Kerschensteiner - Annual review of vision science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Retinal circuits transform the pixel representation of photoreceptors into the feature
representations of ganglion cells, whose axons transmit these representations to the brain …

Whole-brain serial-section electron microscopy in larval zebrafish

DGC Hildebrand, M Cicconet, RM Torres, W Choi… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
High-resolution serial-section electron microscopy (ssEM) makes it possible to investigate
the dense meshwork of axons, dendrites, and synapses that form neuronal circuits …

Sensory experience engages microglia to shape neural connectivity through a non-phagocytic mechanism

L Cheadle, SA Rivera, JS Phelps, KA Ennis, B Stevens… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Sensory experience remodels neural circuits in the early postnatal brain through
mechanisms that remain to be elucidated. Applying a new method of ultrastructural analysis …