Connectome
Conectoma: mapa completo de las conexiones neuronales
- Date
- 1986-2024 · confidence high
- Place
- MRC LMB, Cambridge (C. elegans) / Janelia, Virginia and Princeton (Drosophila)
- Credited to
- Sydney Brenner and John White (C. elegans, 302 neurons, 1986); FlyWire consortium (Drosophila, 140,000 neurons, 2024); Human Connectome Project
- People
- 👤 John White1981–👤 Sydney Brenner1927–2019
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Complete synaptic reconstruction of a nervous system from serial electron microscopy, first in the worm C. elegans and, in 2024, in the adult fly. It allows the real wiring of the brain to be simulated.
What it led to
- connectomics and neuroinformatics
- computational models of whole brains
- atlases of human brain connectivity by MRI
- inspiration for AI architectures
Built on
Made possible
- AI-based automatic segmentation of microscopy images