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  • Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of
    Molecular and Cellular Biology
    Harvard University

    Lecture Title: "Connectomics"

    READING LIST:

    1. Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the
      nervous system
      Jean Livet, Tamily A. Weissman, Hyuno Kang, Ryan W. Draft, Ju Lu, Robyn A. Bennis, Joshua R. Sanes & Jeff W. Lichtman Vol 450 | 1 November 2007 | doi:10.1038/nature06293

    2. Kasthuri N, Hayworth KJ, Berger DR, Schalek RL, Conchello JA, Knowles-Barley S, Lee D, V�zquez-Reina A, Kaynig V, Jones TR, Roberts M, Morgan JL, Tapia JC, Seung HS, Roncal WG, Vogelstein JT, Burns R, Sussman DL, Priebe CE, Pfister H, Lichtman JW. 2015. Saturated reconstruction of a small volume of neocortex. Cell. 2015 July 30;162(3): 648-661. doi: 10:1016/j.cell.2015.06.054. PMID: 26232230.
    3. Morgan JL, Berger DR, Wetzel AW, Lichtman JW (2016) The Fuzzy logic of network connectivity in the mouse visual thalamus. Cell. 2016 March 24;165(1): 192-206. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.02.033. PMID:
    4. Hayworth KJ, Morgan JL, Schalek R, Berger DR, Hildebrand DG, Lichtman JW. Imaging ATUM ultrathin section libraries with WaferMapper: a multi-scale approach to EM reconstruction of neural circuits. Front Neural Circuits. 2014;8:68.

    5. Tomassy GS, Berger DR, Chen HH, et al. Distinct profiles of myelin distribution along single axons of pyramidal neurons in the neocortex. Science. 2014;344(6181):319-24.

    6. Beyer J, Hadwiger M, Al-awami A, et al. Exploring the connectome: petascale volume visualization of microscopy data streams. IEEE Comput Graph Appl. 2013;33(4):50-61.

    7. Cai D, Cohen KB, Luo T, Lichtman JW, Sanes JR. Improved tools for the Brainbow toolbox. Nat Methods. 2013;10(6):540-7.

    8. Morgan JL, Lichtman JW. Why not connectomics?. Nat Methods. 2013;10(6):494-500.

    9. Tapia JC, Wylie, JD, Kasthuri, Hayworth K, Schalek R, Berger D, Guatimosim C, Seung HS & Lichtman JW (2012) Pervasive synaptic branch removal in the mammalian neuromuscular system at birth. Neuron, 2012.
    10. Lichtman JW, Denk W. The big and the small: challenges of imaging the brain's circuits. Science. 2011;334(6056):618-23