Nice, thank you for the reply! Speaking of post synaptic connections…when do we get to play with that post synaptic tab in the gsheet? Asking for a friend lolxD
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@Nseraf
Does “hippocampus” really mean “seahorse” in Greek? And is it pronounced the same way as in English? 
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Yes!
Ιππόκαμπος: ϊππος ancient Greek for Άλογο aka horse. and κάμπος which -also in ancient Greek- means sea monster or sea animal therefore seahorse in modern Greek we still call it that or Άλογακι της Θάλλασας (Horse of the sea).
As to the pronunciation the accent goes where you see the ΄ above a letter/vowel, and it sounds more like Epokampos rather than hippocampus. 
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Cool! Thanks!
In Polish it’s “konik morski” or “little sea horse”
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interestingly we call praying mantises “horse of the virgin marry” Αλογάκι της Παναγίας. Do not ask me why I do not know xD. And I hate the things…
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lol yes its the same for modern Greek version of horse of the sea, its more little horse of the sea but ‘little horse’ becomes 1 word, you know like Nikitas can become Nik or Richard can become Rick or Di…you get the idea out of affection), but its not easy to translate as one word in English lol
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I got it. Same in Polish: horse - koń, little horse - konik (or mały koń, if we want more literal translation). I really miss diminutives in English.
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ikr? lol it gets funnier when diminutives come in 'neutral" ie: cat w/o saying male or female cat, just cat, or baby, male and female lol Aaaand now we’re veering off subject. lol
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this one is so cool looking
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I have collected a nice farm of proofread non mossy fiber cell, is there someplace to collect cells/fragments like that?
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Hmm, good question! All the not-MF segments should be pre-synaptic segments (similar to Challenge 1), so perhaps you could add it to the “Unsolved Tasks/Cleanup” tab?
Make it a non-Mossy Garden as the “Task Type” in column B, if you’d like?
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not sure if it is pre- synaptic segments to the pyramidal cells as this is random segments i have collected while working on the MF, but sure i could add it there
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Ah ok! Sorry I was thinking it was a collection of the not-MF segments we’ve identified. But yeah, a segment garden will be fine Sometimes one just wants to untangle some threads, right?
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Out of curiosity: If your Master List already has all 58k+ potential/possible MFs…why not just give all of them out to us all at once? lol
i dubt it would be very useful to be given all 58k+ at once, as it is i think we are getting a increasing amount of already traced cells already. So far perhaps only 1 in 20-40 as a rought estimate, but this will grow. There have to be someway to run a cheek against current id /finished cells. At some point we will be running into more finished than new cells.
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There are other groups working on the same list of tasks, so we’re divvying them up in more manageable lists for everyone
(Also that master list takes a long time to load…)
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Stock53y, these are such intriguing structures. Investigating - so far no one knows!
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my guess would be some (sub)type of Glia transfering O2/nutrients to/from blood veins <> neurons.
kinda like this but maybe this EM zoom in 2D isnt enough to show the entire ‘wrap around’ and so we get this kind of ‘spiraling helix’ 3D structure instead? Idk just a guess.
Who knows maybe one day we’ll have EM zoomed in/detailed enough to be able to see even glia as well as the rest of neurons in great detail.
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Getting smooth glia branches would be nice, but at that stage i would think the computer could do most of the tracing alone
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yeah ik, but hopefully we’ll still be needed to verify its tracing, xP.
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