46: Connectomics with Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter

Max Planck Florida’s Neurotransmissions Podcast

What approaches are researchers taking to understand which neurons talk to each other in the brain? Joe and Misha sit down with Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter, Scientific Director and Head of the Department of Connectomics at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt Germany. They'll discuss the current state of connectomics, the approaches researchers are taking, the challenges of working with the large datasets necessary to understand neuronal connections, and the work that Dr. Helmstaedter's group is doing with electron microscopy to map the connections within the brain.