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    06/15/25 | A connectomic resource for neural cataloguing and circuit dissection of the larval zebrafish brain
    Petkova MD, Januszewski M, Blakely T, Herrera KJ, Schuhknecht GF, Tiller R, Choi J, Schalek RL, Boulanger-Weill J, Peleg A, Wu Y, Wang S, Troidl J, Kumar Vohra S, Wei D, Lin Z, Bahl A, Tapia JC, Iyer N, Miller ZT, Hebert KB, Pavarino EC, Taylor M, Deng Z, Stingl M, Hockling D, Hebling A, Wang RC, Zhang LL, Dvorak S, Faik Z, King KI, Goel P, Wagner-Carena J, Aley D, Chalyshkan S, Contreas D, Li X, Muthukumar AV, Vernaglia MS, Carrasco TT, Melnychuck S, Yan T, Dalal A, DiMartino JM, Brown S, Safo-Mensa N, Greenberg E, Cook M, Finley-May S, Flynn MA, Hopkins GP, Kovalyak J, Leonard M, Lohff A, Ordish C, Scott AL, Takemura S, Walsh C, Walsh JJ, Berger DR, Pfister H, Berg S, Knecht C, Meissner GW, Korff W, Ahrens MB, Jain V, Lichtman JW, Engert F
    bioRxiv. 2025 Jun 16:. doi: 10.1101/2025.06.10.658982

    We present a correlated light and electron microscopy (CLEM) dataset from a 7-day-old larval zebrafish, integrating confocal imaging of genetically labeled excitatory (vglut2a) and inhibitory (gad1b) neurons with nanometer-resolution serial section EM. The dataset spans the brain and anterior spinal cord, capturing >180,000 segmented soma, >40,000 molecularly annotated neurons, and 30 million synapses, most of which were classified as excitatory, inhibitory, or modulatory. To characterize the directional flow of activity across the brain, we leverage the synaptic and cell body annotations to compute region-wise input and output drive indices at single cell resolution. We illustrate the dataset’s utility by dissecting and validating circuits in three distinct systems: water flow direction encoding in the lateral line, recurrent excitation and contralateral inhibition in a hindbrain motion integrator, and functionally relevant targeted long-range projections from a tegmental excitatory nucleus, demonstrating that this resource enables rigorous hypothesis testing as well as exploratory-driven circuit analysis. The dataset is integrated into an open-access platform optimized to facilitate community reconstruction and discovery efforts throughout the larval zebrafish brain.

     

    Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2025/06/15/2025.06.10.658982

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    05/30/25 | Cross-Tissue Coordination between SLC Nucleoside Transporters Regulates Reproduction in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Guan Y, Yu Y, Gao SM, Ding L, Zhao Q, Wang M
    PLoS Genet. 2025 May 30:. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011425

    Metabolism is fundamental to organism physiology and pathology. From the intricate network of metabolic reactions, diverse chemical molecules, collectively termed as metabolites, are produced. In multicellular organisms, metabolite communication between different tissues is vital for maintaining homeostasis and adaptation. However, the molecular mechanisms mediating these metabolite communications remain poorly understood. Here, we focus on nucleosides and nucleotides, essential metabolites involved in multiple cellular processes, and report the pivotal role of the SLC29A family of transporters in mediating nucleoside coordination between the soma and the germline. Through genetic analysis, we discovered that two Caenorhabditis elegans homologs of SLC29A transporters, Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter ENT-1 and ENT-2, act in the germline and the intestine, respectively, to regulate reproduction. Their knockdown synergistically results in sterility. Further single-cell transcriptomic and targeted metabolomic profiling revealed that the ENT double knockdown specifically affects genes in the purine biosynthesis pathway and reduces the ratio of guanosine to adenosine levels. Importantly, guanosine supplementation into the body cavity/pseudocoelom through microinjection rescued the sterility caused by the ENT double knockdown, whereas adenosine microinjection had no effect. Together, these studies support guanosine as a rate limiting factor in the control of reproduction, uncover the previously unknown nucleoside/nucleotide communication between the soma and the germline essential for reproductive success, and highlight the significance of SLC-mediated cell-nonautonomous metabolite coordination in regulating organism physiology.

     

    Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.12.612591

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    05/01/25 | Cellpose-SAM: superhuman generalization for cellular segmentation
    Pachitariu M, Rariden M, Stringer C
    bioRxiv. 2025 May 1:. doi: 10.1101/2025.04.28.651001

    Modern algorithms for biological segmentation can match inter-human agreement in annotation quality. This however is not a performance bound: a hypothetical human-consensus segmentation could reduce error rates in half. To obtain a model that generalizes better we adapted the pretrained transformer backbone of a foundation model (SAM) to the Cellpose framework. The resulting Cellpose-SAM model substantially outperforms inter-human agreement and approaches the human-consensus bound. We increase generalization performance further by making the model robust to channel shuffling, cell size, shot noise, downsampling, isotropic and anisotropic blur. The new model can be readily adopted into the Cellpose ecosystem which includes finetuning, human-in-the-loop training, image restoration and 3D segmentation approaches. These properties establish Cellpose-SAM as a foundation model for biological segmentation.

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    04/08/25 | Glutamate indicators with increased sensitivity and tailored deactivation rates
    Podgorski K, Aggarwal A, Negrean A, Chen Y, Iyer R, Reep D, Liu A, Palutla A, Xie M, Maclennan B, Hagihara K, Kinsey L, Sun J, Yao P, Zheng J, Tsang A, Tsegaye G, Zhang Y, Patel R, Hasseman J
    Research Square. 2025 Apr 8:. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6257403/v1

    Identifying the input-output operations of neurons requires measurements of synaptic transmission simultaneously at many of a neuron’s thousands of inputs in the intact brain. To facilitate this goal, we engineered and screened 3365 variants of the fluorescent protein glutamate indicator iGluSnFR3 in neuron culture, and selected variants in the mouse visual cortex. Two variants have high sensitivity, fast activation (< 2 ms) and deactivation times tailored for recording large populations of synapses (iGluSnFR4s, 153 ms) or rapid dynamics (iGluSnFR4f, 26 ms). By imaging action-potential evoked signals on axons and visually-evoked signals on dendritic spines, we show that iGluSnFR4s/4f primarily detect local synaptic glutamate with single-vesicle sensitivity. The indicators detect a wide range of naturalistic synaptic transmission, including in the vibrissal cortex layer 4 and in hippocampal CA1 dendrites. iGluSnFR4 increases the sensitivity and scale (4s) or speed (4f) of tracking information flow in neural networks in vivo.

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    03/30/25 | Whole-brain, all-optical interrogation of neuronal dynamics underlying gut interoception in zebrafish
    Chen W, James B, Ruetten VM, Banala S, Wei Z, Fleishman G, Rubinov M, Fishman MC, Engert F, Lavis LD, Fitzgerald JE, Ahrens MB
    bioRxiv. 2025 Mar 30:. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.26.645305

    Internal signals from the body and external signals from the environment are processed by brain-wide circuits to guide behavior. However, the complete brain-wide circuit activity underlying interoception—the perception of bodily signals—and its interactions with sensorimotor circuits remain unclear due to technical barriers to accessing whole-brain activity at the cellular level during organ physiology perturbations. We developed an all-optical system for whole-brain neuronal imaging in behaving larval zebrafish during optical uncaging of gut-targeted nutrients and visuo-motor stimulation. Widespread neural activity throughout the brain encoded nutrient delivery, unfolding on multiple timescales across many specific peripheral and central regions. Evoked activity depended on delivery location and occurred with amino acids and D-glucose, but not L-glucose. Many gut-sensitive neurons also responded to swimming and visual stimuli, with brainstem areas primarily integrating gut and motor signals and midbrain regions integrating gut and visual signals. This platform links body-brain communication studies to brain-wide neural computation in awake, behaving vertebrates.

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    03/27/25 | iGABASnFR2: Improved genetically encoded protein sensors of GABA
    Kolb I, Hasseman JP, Matsumoto A, Arthur BJ, Zhang Y, Tsang A, Reep D, Tsegaye G, Zheng J, Patel R, Looger LL, Marvin JS, Korff WL, Yonehara K, Turner GC
    bioRxiv. 2025 Mar 25:. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.25.644953

    Monitoring GABAergic inhibition in the nervous system has been enabled by development of an intensiometric molecular sensor that directly detects GABA. However the first generation iGABASnFR exhibits low signal-to-noise and suboptimal kinetics, making in vivo experiments challenging. To improve sensor performance, we targeted several sites in the protein for near-saturation mutagenesis, and evaluated the resulting sensor variants in a high throughput screening system using evoked synaptic release in primary cultured neurons. This identified a sensor variant, iGABASnFR2, with 4.2-fold improved sensitivity and 20% faster kinetics, and binding affinity that remained in a range sensitive to changes in GABA concentration at synapses. We also identified sensors with an inverted response, decreasing fluorescence intensity upon GABA binding. We termed the best such negative-going sensor iGABASnFR2n, which can be used to corroborate observations with the positive-going sensor. These improvements yielded a qualitative enhancement of in vivo performance, enabling us to make the first measurements of direction selective GABA release in the retina and confirm a longstanding hypothesis for how sensitivity to motion arises in the visual system.

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    03/26/25 | Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system
    Aljoscha Nern , Frank Loesche , Shin-ya Takemura , Laura E Burnett , Marisa Dreher , Eyal Gruntman , Judith Hoeller , Gary B Huang , Michal Januszewski , Nathan C Klapoetke , Sanna Koskela , Kit D Longden , Zhiyuan Lu , Stephan Preibisch , Wei Qiu , Edward M Rogers , Pavithraa Seenivasan , Arthur Zhao , John Bogovic , Brandon S Canino , Jody Clements , Michael Cook , Samantha Finley-May , Miriam A Flynn , Imran Hameed , Kenneth J Hayworth , Gary Patrick Hopkins , Philip M Hubbard , William T Katz , Julie Kovalyak , Shirley A Lauchie , Meghan Leonard , Alanna Lohff , Charli A Maldonado , Caroline Mooney , Nneoma Okeoma , Donald J Olbris , Christopher Ordish , Tyler Paterson , Emily M Phillips , Tobias Pietzsch , Jennifer Rivas Salinas , Patricia K Rivlin , Ashley L Scott , Louis A Scuderi , Satoko Takemura , Iris Talebi , Alexander Thomson , Eric T Trautman , Lowell Umayam , Claire Walsh , John J Walsh , C Shan Xu , Emily A Yakal , Tansy Yang , Ting Zhao , Jan Funke , Reed George , Harald F Hess , Gregory S X E Jefferis , Christopher Knecht , Wyatt Korff , Stephen M Plaza , Sandro Romani , Stephan Saalfeld , Louis K Scheffer , Stuart Berg , Gerald M Rubin , Michael B Reiser
    Nature. 2025 Mar 26:. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-08746-0

    Vision provides animals with detailed information about their surroundings, conveying diverse features such as color, form, and movement across the visual scene. Computing these parallel spatial features requires a large and diverse network of neurons, such that in animals as distant as flies and humans, visual regions comprise half the brain’s volume. These visual brain regions often reveal remarkable structure-function relationships, with neurons organized along spatial maps with shapes that directly relate to their roles in visual processing. To unravel the stunning diversity of a complex visual system, a careful mapping of the neural architecture matched to tools for targeted exploration of that circuitry is essential. Here, we report a new connectome of the right optic lobe from a male Drosophila central nervous system FIB-SEM volume and a comprehensive inventory of the fly’s visual neurons. We developed a computational framework to quantify the anatomy of visual neurons, establishing a basis for interpreting how their shapes relate to spatial vision. By integrating this analysis with connectivity information, neurotransmitter identity, and expert curation, we classified the 53,000 neurons into 727 types, about half of which are systematically described and named for the first time. Finally, we share an extensive collection of split-GAL4 lines matched to our neuron type catalog. Together, this comprehensive set of tools and data unlock new possibilities for systematic investigations of vision in Drosophila, a foundation for a deeper understanding of sensory processing.

     

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    03/20/25 | Glutamate indicators with increased sensitivity and tailored deactivation rates
    Aggarwal A, Negrean A, Chen Y, Iyer R, Reep D, Liu A, Palutla A, Xie ME, MacLennan BJ, Hagihara KM, Kinsey LW, Sun JL, Yao P, Zheng J, Tsang A, Tsegaye G, Zhang Y, Patel RH, Arthur BJ, Hiblot J, Leippe P, Tarnawski M, Marvin JS, Vevea JD, Turaga SC, Tebo AG, Carandini M, Rossi LF, Kleinfeld D, Konnerth A, Svoboda K, Turner GC, Hasseman J, Podgorski K
    bioRxiv. 2025 Mar 20:. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.20.643984

    Identifying the input-output operations of neurons requires measurements of synaptic transmission simultaneously at many of a neuron’s thousands of inputs in the intact brain. To facilitate this goal, we engineered and screened 3365 variants of the fluorescent protein glutamate indicator iGluSnFR3 in neuron culture, and selected variants in the mouse visual cortex. Two variants have high sensitivity, fast activation (< 2 ms) and deactivation times tailored for recording large populations of synapses (iGluSnFR4s, 153 ms) or rapid dynamics (iGluSnFR4f, 26 ms). By imaging action-potential evoked signals on axons and visually-evoked signals on dendritic spines, we show that iGluSnFR4s/4f primarily detect local synaptic glutamate with single-vesicle sensitivity. The indicators detect a wide range of naturalistic synaptic transmission, including in the vibrissal cortex layer 4 and in hippocampal CA1 dendrites. iGluSnFR4 increases the sensitivity and scale (4s) or speed (4f) of tracking information flow in neural networks in vivo.

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    03/13/25 | HortaCloud: An Open and Collaborative Platform for Whole Brain Neuronal Reconstructions
    Rokicki K, Schauder D, Olbris DJ, Goina C, Clements J, Edson P, Kawase T, Svirskas R, Arshadi C, Feng D, Chandrashekar J, Ferreira TA, MouseLight Project Team
    bioRxiv. 2025 Mar 13:. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.13.642887

    HortaCloud is a cloud-based, open-source platform designed to facilitate the collaborative reconstruction of long-range projection neurons from whole-brain light microscopy data. By providing virtual environments directly within the cloud, it eliminates the need for costly and time-consuming data downloads, allowing researchers to work efficiently with terabyte- scale volumetric datasets. Standardization of computational resources in the cloud make deployment easier and more predictable. The pay-as-you-go cloud model reduces adoption barriers by eliminating upfront investments in expensive hardware. Finally, HortaCloud’s decentralized architecture enables global collaboration between researchers and between institutions.

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    02/20/25 | Deep-tissue transcriptomics and subcellular imaging at high spatial resolution
    Gandin V, Kim J, Yang L, Lian Y, Kawase T, Hu A, Rokicki K, Fleishman G, Tillberg P, Aguilera Castrejon A, Stringer C, Preibisch S, Liu ZJ
    Science. 2025 Feb 20:. doi: 10.1126/science.adq2084

    Limited color channels in fluorescence microscopy have long constrained spatial analysis in biological specimens. Here, we introduce cycle Hybridization Chain Reaction (HCR), a method that integrates multicycle DNA barcoding with HCR to overcome this limitation. cycleHCR enables highly multiplexed imaging of RNA and proteins using a unified barcode system. Whole-embryo transcriptomics imaging achieved precise three-dimensional gene expression and cell fate mapping across a specimen depth of ~310 μm. When combined with expansion microscopy, cycleHCR revealed an intricate network of 10 subcellular structures in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. In mouse hippocampal slices, multiplex RNA and protein imaging uncovered complex gene expression gradients and cell-type-specific nuclear structural variations. cycleHCR provides a quantitative framework for elucidating spatial regulation in deep tissue contexts for research and potentially diagnostic applications.

     

    bioRxiv preprint: 10.1101/2024.05.17.594641

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