Special BBE Seminar - Sebastian Seung | Monday, March 25, 2024 at 4 pm

Monday, March 25, 2024

4 pm

Chen 100

Reception at 3:30 pm - Chen Breezeway

Speaker: Sebastian Seung

Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience

Princeton University

Faculty Host: Carlos Lois

In 2023, the FlyWire Consortium released the neuronal wiring diagram of an adult fly brain. This contains as a corollary the first complete wiring diagram of a visual system, which has been used to identify all 200+ cell types that are intrinsic to the Drosophila optic lobe. Over half of these cell types were previously unknown, and less than 20% have ever been recorded by a physiologist. I will argue that plausible functions for many cell types can be guessed by interpreting the wiring diagram.