@uni_matrix Sounds like a plan. Now only need funding and willing new lab members :)
On amphibians, though: Briggman's lab is imaging the Xenopus tropicalis froglet. An excellent choice.
#connectomics #neuroscience

@tdverstynen @ekmiller

Indeed – and functional imaging is much less than half the story too. Without transcriptomics we are all flying blind. And without theoretical neuroscience we won't make much sense of anything.

What's neat about connectomics is that it provides a framework onto which map activity, resolve ambiguities in activity data without enough temporal resolution, and map receptors and neurotransmitters. It's also dense: complete, all neurons are there, independently of the idiosyncrasies of genetic driver lines.

@gregeganSF

The connectome of the Drosophila male nerve cord, where the neural circuits for generating the courtship song reside, has already been mapped:

"A Connectome of the Male Drosophila Ventral Nerve Cord", by Takemura et al. 2023
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.05.543757v1

What's missing now is the brain of the male. I'll let the joke write itself.