Jon Thomson Rymer

The paper uses artificial neural networks to classify neurotransmitters from electron microscopy images of Drosophila melanogaster synapses, achieving high accuracy and revealing ultrastructural differences.

Roughly 23 thousand traced neurons and 10 million TBars of the male Drosophila nerve cord, reconstructed from electron microscopy, typed, and queryable in neuPrint down to motor neurons.

The paper presents a detailed connectome of the adult Drosophila central brain, including new methods for data analysis and biological insights into neural circuit organization.

A dense electron-microscopy reconstruction of half the fly central brain, with nearly every cell typed and queryable online, turns months of tracing partners into a database lookup.