Daniel Witvliet

Living the life as a Data Scientist at Coursera. Feel free to reach if you want to know what that's like! Opinions are my own and not my employer's. he/him/his.

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

How do brains rewire throughout life?

Our paper out in @Nature today outlines several principles of brain circuit development that we found by mapping the complete wiring of eight brains.

https://t.co/C2k8xv7mVp

#neuroscience #connectomics #brain #neurons #celegans #science

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[Coursera @coursera]

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[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

@EvoMRI @Nature CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0: https://t.co/OLezh1JnlW video 2

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

How do brains rewire throughout life?

Our paper out in @Nature today outlines several principles of brain circuit development that we found by mapping the complete wiring of eight brains.

https://t.co/C2k8xv7mVp

#neuroscience #connectomics #brain #neurons #celegans #science

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

@animesh1977 There was only a control group, so not much to randomize..

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

@HossamBegovic @Nature TBD. It's likely a mix, but follow-up experiments will have to determine. It was my planned postdoc work until I switched over to Coursera.

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

@Baby__Sleep @Nature The glia were, unfortunately, outside the scope of this research. However, our raw data is all available at https://t.co/HDByRU5nMi for anyone else to pick up where we left off.

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

@Benjamin_Rein @Nature Of course!

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PDF available here for anyone interested in the full story: https://t.co/eVZ02Gi3Ex

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See highlights here: https://t.co/ZzlOO31d7U

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

How does brain wiring change after birth? We tried to answer that question by mapping the wiring diagrams, or connectomes, of eight C. elegans brains across different life stages.

See our preprint (and this thread) for the insights we found: https://t.co/OpWa9UYWPZ

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[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

@albertcardona @ptrrupprecht @guiwitz @herrsaalfeld @preibischs @romainGuiet @nicolasrenier @christophkirst @AdrianAWanner @unidesigner @BionicCamel I like pen monitors without any touch mechanisms getting in the way. E.g. HUION Kamvas 22.

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

Inside the fly mind: "The connectome of the adult Drosophila mushroom body: implications for function" https://t.co/GnmyjR6CkY - incredible, epic work defining the connectional principles of the brain region flies think with

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

@averydavisbell You can find the animation under supplementary materials, video 2. ;)

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

Ph.D. thesis defense virtual seminar on Thursday at 2:00 PM EST:
"Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation in C. elegans".

DM me if you want a link!

[Jan Funke @janfunkey]

The starting point for this work was the following question: Can we tell the neurotransmitter (NT) identity of Drosophila neurons by just looking at EM images of synapses?

(below three synapses with each a different NT)

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[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

The molecular makeup and diversity of synapses throughout the brain change continuously throughout life - published in @ScienceMagazine by Grant Lab from @EdinUniBrainSci

https://t.co/FirgIOyVNk

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

@zeitungsjunge It's serial-section electron microscopy. See more here: https://t.co/wreleWOedm

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

How does brain wiring change after birth? We tried to answer that question by mapping the wiring diagrams, or connectomes, of eight C. elegans brains across different life stages.

See our preprint (and this thread) for the insights we found: https://t.co/OpWa9UYWPZ

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[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

Another preview to our upcoming paper, now with moving parts.
#neuroscience #brain #neurons #connectomics #celegans

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

The mind of a worm. Every nerve and muscle fibre in the brain of a microscopic nematode.
#neuroscience #brain #neurons #connectomics #celegans

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

@RuvinskyIlya @JavierApfeld Right. I'll see what we can do.

[Daniel Witvliet @dwitvliet]

Worm neurons across development. Each neuron has an intricate morphology, which is mostly stable from birth (L1) to adulthood.

https://t.co/dSC8aPRS9i

#neuroscience #brain #neurons #connectomics #celegans

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