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Benjamin Silverman

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Organism:Drosophila· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Uncovering Sex Differences in the Drosophila Ventral Nerve Cord Through Connectome Alignment

Arie Matsliah, Christopher K. Salmon, Alexander Shakeel Bates, Helen H. Yang, Daniel D. Lee, Lawrence K. Saul, Benjamin Silverman, Jay Gager, Szi-chieh Yu, Kyle Patrick Willie, Austin Burke, Ryan Willie, Doug Bland, Marissa Sorek, Celia David, , Mala Murthy

The paper automatically aligns Drosophila connectomes to classify neurons and identify sex-specific and sexually dimorphic cell types in the ventral nerve cord.

bioRxiv · Jun 27, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome

Alexander Shakeel Bates, Jasper S. Phelps, Minsu Kim, Helen H. Yang, Arie Matsliah, Zaki Ajabi, Eric Perlman, Kevin M. Delgado, Mohammed Abdal Monium Osman, Christopher K. Salmon, Jay Gager, Benjamin Silverman, Sophia Renauld, Farzaan Salman, Janki Patel, , Wei-Chung Allen Lee

The paper presents the first densely reconstructed adult fruit fly connectome integrating the brain and ventral nerve cord, revealing distributed control circuits involving local and long-range neural connections.

Lirias · Jun 8, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience