Citizen Science Symposium: Sept 29

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I’m excited to invite you to FlyWire’s first ever Citizen Science Symposium! The virutal event takes place on Thurs, Sept 29 at 10 am US ET / 14:00 GMT on Zoom.

Sign up for free here.

The Symposium will feature an introduction from FlyWire co-founder and Director of Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Mala Murthy, followed by a presentation about the optic lobe by neurobiologist Emil Kind. It will close with a Q&A. Feel free to post questions in this thread!

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This is soooo cool! And have a week to think on questions, lol.

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Whew! Really early for me but I’m RSVPing and will do my best to make it. Someone brew up a pot of virtual coffee!

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probably a bit early for me also, but will try to get there

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How long will the event last? Looks like I have gym for an hr at the start of it. Will it be recorded for later viewing? thnx.

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All the presentations were amazing! They sparked my interest in looking for neuronal circuits, at least those, which were presented.
We’ve already knew about the cartridges and the R cells in there, but we thought, that all the cells come from the same ommatidium. Now we know, that in each cartridge there are indeed cells R1-R8, but every one of them is from a different ommatidium and are collected that way, that all points at the same point from different perspective. That fact was the most interesting for me.

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Thanks! I’m glad it was insightful.

Here are links to the talks:

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I absolutely loved this event! I learned and discovered so much in that short amount of time and it really just kindled my passion for this project further.

Things I found groovy:

  • The motion/auditory work in other parts of the brain
  • The cross circuitry of the R cells
  • The three types of ommatidia when it comes to color and light, and their networks
  • The alignment of T4/T5 cells with directional detection

Also, I know Emil commented offhand that Fischbach could be a whole topic of its own, and I want to say I would LOVE some presentations/discussions on Fischbach’s paper (what was gotten right, what was gotten wrong, what we’re discovering that conflicts or doesn’t, etc).

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I also found both presentations extremely informative, what got me the most is/was that our (players) observations about the R axons, the cartridges, L cells and so on were/are the observations made by the scientists, but we didn’t know that before hand except maybe by some few of the existing research papers. So, w/o significant prior knowledge we came to almost the same conclusions as the researchers/scientists by ‘just’ reconstructing neurons in FW and noticing patterns. :smiley:

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