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Merlin Moore

Princeton University

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Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex

J. Alexander Bae, Mahaly Baptiste, Maya R. Baptiste, Caitlyn A. Bishop, Ágnes L. Bodor, Derrick Brittain, Victoria Brooks, JoAnn Buchanan, Daniel J. Bumbarger, Manuel Castro, Brendan Celii, Erick Cobos, Forrest Collman, Nuno Maçarico da Costa, Bethanny P. Danskin, , Chi Zhang

The paper presents a functional connectomics dataset of mouse visual cortex, combining calcium imaging with EM reconstruction to study neural circuits and their connectivity.

Nature · Apr 9, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Special Nuclear Layer Contacts Among Starburst Amacrine Cells in the Mouse Retina

Shang Mu, Nicholas L. Turner, William Silversmith, Chris S. Jordan, Nico Kemnitz, Marissa Sorek, Celia David, Devon L. Jones, Doug Bland, Merlin Moore, Amy Robinson Sterling, H. Sebastian Seung, the Eyewirers

The paper identifies novel nuclear layer contacts between starburst amacrine cells in the mouse retina through detailed morphological analysis of electron microscopic data.

bioRxiv · Aug 28, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience

FlyWire: Online community for whole-brain connectomics

Sven Dorkenwald, Claire E. McKellar, Thomas Macrina, Nico Kemnitz, Kisuk Lee, Ran Lu, Jingpeng Wu, Sergiy Popovych, Eric Mitchell, Barak Nehoran, Zhen Jia, J. Alexander Bae, Shang Mu, Dodam Ih, Manuel Castro, , H. Sebastian Seung

FlyWire enables collaborative proofreading of whole-brain connectomes through an online platform, demonstrating its utility in reconstructing and analyzing mechanosensory neuron circuits.

Nature Methods · Dec 23, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

3D reconstruction of cell nuclei in a full Drosophila brain

Shang Mu, Szi-chieh Yu, Nicholas L. Turner, Claire E. McKellar, Sven Dorkenwald, Forrest Collman, Selden Koolman, Merlin Moore, Sarah Morejohn, Ben Silverman, Kyle Patrick Willie, Ryan Willie, Doug Bland, Austin Burke, Zoe C. Ashwood, , H. Sebastian Seung

The paper reconstructs 3D cell nuclei in a Drosophila brain, identifying over 133,000 nuclei, mostly neurons, and highlights differences in nuclear size and cell density across brain regions.

bioRxiv · Nov 4, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience