Connectomics: Developing a Wiring Diagram for the Mammalian Brain

Saturday, February 16, 2013
Room 304 (Hynes Convention Center)
Jeff Lichtman , Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Efforts are underway to develop new electron microscopy methods to map the entire wiring diagram of the developing and adult brain. This "connectomics" approach has as one of its aims uncovering the ways information is stored in neural networks.