Jörgen Kornfeld

E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains. 1/N 🧵

Brain tissue artificially expanded to show how neurons wire together @Nature @JGDanzl @RTMojtaba nature.com/articles/s4158… @NatureNV @jmrko nature.com/articles/d4158…

🚀 Calling all visionary scientists and engineers! Announcing our call for Focused Research Organization proposals in the UK. 🔬Submit your concept paper by Feb 7 & full proposal by March 28. ⤵️

The $3B Human Genome Project was started under a Republican administration and later acknowledged by the Obama admin to have returned $141 to the economy for every $1 spent. Science has a higher ROI than any other category of government spending.

Interested in working on a state-of-the-art connectomics pipeline at its birthplace as a postdoc? We’d love to hear from you! :) mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…

🧠 In #connectomics, artificial neural networks analyze biological ones, but large-scale benchmarks have been lacking. We introduce NISB - the Neuron Instance Segmentation Benchmark, generated with novel 3D diffusion models! 1/2

Big day for neuroscience & the end of the beginning for whole brain connectomics. Shout out to @sdorkenw and Philipp Schlegel, first authors of the connectome papers, @MurthyLab @SebastianSeung for establishing #flywire to make this possible and @dddavi for birthing this dataset.

Incredibly proud and grateful to be part of the #FlyWire team that made this happen. This was an immensely collaborative project - on every level from early open data sharing, to tool building, to analysis - over many years, across many institutions. It's been a fantastic journey

🚨🎓 New application round: Join us in researching the multiple facets of biological intelligence and become a PhD student at our fully funded graduate school IMPRS-BI in the Munich area! 🔔 Application period: October 1 to November 10 🌐 Apply here: imprs-bi.mpg.de

Calling all emerging scientists - it’s time to send us an application! 😉😎 Lead your own #MaxPlanck Research Group w/ €2.7M in funding over 6 yrs, full independence & resources to hire staff. State-of-the-art infrastructure awaits you!🌟 Apply today➡️mpg.de/career/max-pla…

Fascinated by the idea of decoding memories from connectomes? Interested in working on a cutting-edge connectomics pipeline? Excited about high-throughput data acquisition or machine learning? We're hiring postdocs, PhD students, and technicians! Reach out :)

Our collaboration with @GoogleDeepMind has borne fruit! Or rather, a fruit fly 🪰🙂 Simulated with #MuJoCo physics, trained with imitation learning, capable of realistic locomotion, both on the ground and in the air. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110… github.com/TuragaLab/flyb…

Reminder: two weeks left to apply for our emerging scientist talk series! You’re a postdoc in neuroscience, ecology or other fields related to our research? Apply now: bi.mpg.de/ess Art by @mulesome

Excited to share that DeepFocus, our new state-of-the-art neural network based autofocus algorithm is now out in Nature Communications rdcu.be/dxr9s. With @philjohschub and Rangoli Saxena

Been using @Waymo throughout SF the past week. Cannot believe what they have achieved. What a revolution.

We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses! Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai Reconstruction paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Annotation paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6