Moritz Helmstaedter

Method of the Year: EM connectomics - Nature Methods Using electron microscopy, scientists mapped a Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system and Drosophila brain at single-neuron resolution. Connectomics work on bigger brains takes new methods strategies.

And don't miss Vivien Marx's wonderful technology feature on the topic nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sometimes, even as scientists we can be optimistic!
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Synaptic-resolution connectomics: towards large brains and connectomic screening - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Connectomics has delivered on its promise to map neuronal circuits at scale and at synaptic resolution. In this Review, Helmstaedter describes recent methodological achievements and remaining cha...

And coincidentally, my review on synaptic-resolution connectomics came out in
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I emphasize that manual proof reading is (almost) a matter of the past, and that large brains and massive connectomic screening are in reach. 2/3

Connectomics is Method of the Year 2025!!
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just released the news nature.com/articles/s41... In my perspective piece, I afford some predictions into the future and compare how we are doing vs. genomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats!