Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....
Explore neurons that enter/exit the fly central nervous system by body part with this clickable fly!: codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par...
(graphics: @mottcallie.bsky.social, tool: Arie Matisliah)
Vector graphics! github.com/wilson-lab/s...
Effector cells in 3D! ng.banc.community/2025a/effere...
It’s surreal to think that every neuron and synapse in the fly brain + cord that was dissected almost five years ago (the photo’s still on the lab slack!) is now just a click away on Codex codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc. This wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible team behind it!
There is so much to learn from this dataset that it's overwhelming. It feels amazing to connect everything, from the "cognitive" regions of the brain all the way down to muscles, internal organs, and endocrine systems. With the analyses in our preprint, we've only just scratched the surface.
What a joy to work on such an incredibly collaborative project!! Congrats to all who poured time energy and effort into this new resource.
(So excited about this that I had to make a bluesky account!)
