The biological significance of assembling this global wiring diagram of the brain is tantamount to that of the Human Genome Project. However, just as knowing the sequence of three billion base pairs in the human genome reveals little about how our bodies are regulated by genes, constructing the connectome will not directly reveal its functional purpose. The ensuing challenge is to analyze the vast connectivity information in a way that is most conducive to generating new behavioral hypotheses for direct testing.
In his talk, Hongwei Dong, MD, PhD will present the progress of the NIH BRAIN Initiative funded Mouse Connectome Project in assembling global neural networks of the whole mouse brain. His research focuses on constructing a multi-scale wiring diagram and cataloging cell types of the mouse brain.
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Presenter
Hongwei Dong, MD, PhD, Professor; Neurobiology
University of California, Los Angeles