Varun Sane
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@SaneVarun
@ucsb graduate student. Former RA at @flyconnectome at the University of Cambridge and Masters from the Pulver lab at the University of St Andrews.
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
Have you ever wondered how brains convert sensory info into abstract, cognitive entities? The Kim Lab #mcdb #dyns @UCSB_NRI @UCSB and the Wernet Lab @fubcp @FU_Berlin reconstructed the neural circuits that carry visual information to the navigation center in the fruit fly brain.
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
🔥 Today, researchers unveiled the connectome of the male adult fruit fly nerve cord. 🧠 With about 23K neurons, 10 million pre-synaptic sites & 74 million post-synaptic densities, it’s the most in-depth & complete wiring diagram of a fly nerve cord. 🔗janelia.org/news/janelia-s…
Sex pheromones are a great entry point to understand #brain #circuits. @istvan_taisz and I investigated how cVA, the canonical #Drosophila #pheromone, is processed to control social #behaviour – and how flies use cVA to “see” in the dark! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/14
We've got an open position for a 2y Research Assistant in our group @CamZoology @Cambridge_Uni, 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
