In a groundbreaking achievement for neuroscience, the international FlyWire consortium of scientists around Marla Murthy and Sebastian Seung from Princeton University, including Gerit Linneweber, a neurobiologist at Freie Universität Berlin and several of his lab members, succeeded in mapping the entire brain of a fruit fly. This is the largest published full connectome of a brain.
Read the full article by Tom Kern in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, where Gerit Linneweber, Alexander Borst, and Moritz Helmstaedter discuss this neuroscience scientific milestone:
www.sz.de/li.3122356
Further information about the Fly Connectome in Nature:
https://www.nature.com/collections/hgcfafejia
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-024-00053-4/index.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y