Austin Burke

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

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.

The paper improves synapse detection in Drosophila brain connectomes using new neural networks, achieving better performance in challenging regions and improved neuron clustering.

The paper completes the list of cell types in the Drosophila optic lobe and identifies connectivity rules, revealing new families and clusters related to visual functions.

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

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.

This study identifies pC1-Alpha neurons in Drosophila females that drive persistent behaviors through recurrent neural connectivity.