A truly remarkable finding in our datasets is how common synapses located in non-varicose domains of the axon are, reaching up to 23% of the total synapses. These have not been reported in other huge EM datasets, possibly being overlooked by semi-automatic segmentation tools

To our surprise, layer 4 of area S2 inputs displayed statistically equal ultrastructural features like synapsic surface or number despite arising from different thalamic nuclei, a first order one like VPM and a higher order one like Po

In our study we combined the selective labeling of thalamocortical axon populations from VPM and Po with volume EM #volumeEM to study a mostly unexplored area in the cerebral cortex, area S2

Just as a first post on Bluesky I wanted to share that
I finally got my research into a first-author paper in #JNeurosci
@sfnjournals.bsky.social 🎉🥳

A full electron microscopy study!
👉https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1212-25.2025

As I'm truly proud I wanted to share our findings 👇🧵