Description
This funding announcement, issued by the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, seeks transformative, cutting-edge, and innovative research that embraces new technologies, ideas, and approaches to understand brain circuit function and contributions to behavior. It is a component of the BRAIN Initiative Connectivity Across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS) Program, which aims to lay the scientific foundation for the next generation of neural circuit-based approaches for preventing and treating devastating brain disorders.
The key aspects of this opportunity include:
• Developing scalable methods for mapping brain connectivity
• Applying these methods to any aspect of the pipeline, from tissue processing to imaging, alignment, segmentation, and annotation, error correction, and integration into the larger neuroscience data environment
• Focusing on human, non-human primate, and mouse, but allowing the use of other species for validation if well justified
• Integrating awards into the BRAIN CONNECTS Network, a coordinated effort aimed at developing the research capacity and technical capabilities to generate wiring diagrams that can span entire brains across multiple scales
• Aiming to develop these capabilities through innovation and iterative engineering of technologies, including tissue processing, imaging, data analysis, dissemination, and application to fundamental questions of nervous system function
Attached files
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