A massive, international effort has led to the recent publication of the complete wiring diagram, or connectome, of the adult fruit fly brain. Former UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Phil Shiu, from the lab of HWNI member Kristin Scott, led the effort to model this connectome on a computer, and found that the simulation accurately predicted which neurons are activated in the brain in response to stimuli. This groundbreaking work could lead to the ability to model more complex brains — potentially even the human brain one day — and provides insights into how neural circuits function.
In addition to Shiu and Scott, other co-authors of the work published in Nature include former Scott lab postdoctoral fellows Gabriella Sterne and Salil S. Bidaye.
Read more from UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/02/researchers-simulate-an-entire-fly-brain-on-a-laptop-is-a-human-brain-next/
