Thursday, October 6, 2011

Waltz through hippocampal neuropil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZT6c0V8fW4

Reconstruction of a block of hippocampus from a rat approximately 5 micrometers
on a side from serial section transmission electron microscopy in the lab
of Kristen Harris at the University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with
Terry Sejnowski at the Salk Institute and Mary Kennedy at Caltech. Josef Spacek,
Daniel Keller, Varun Chaturvedi, Chandrajit Bajaj, Justin Kinney and Tom Bartol
made major contributions to the reconstruction and the video.

For more reconstructions:

http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(10)00624-0

Links to laboratories:

http://cnl.salk.edu/
http://synapses.clm.utexas.edu/lab/lab.stm
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mbklab/mary.html
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bajaj/
http://synapses.clm.utexas.edu/lab/spacek/josef.html
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