Viren Jain
@stardazed0.bsky.social
research scientist @ google. connectomics, machine learning, drumming, etc.
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It was a privilege to develop the website to showcase the release of this basal ganglia connectome! Congratulations to everyone involved 😊🎉
Check out interactive 3D models, analysis you can perform in your browser, & our interactive matrices; all on the website!
songbird-connectomics.org
Check out interactive 3D models, analysis you can perform in your browser, & our interactive matrices; all on the website!
songbird-connectomics.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It was a privilege to develop the website to showcase the release of this basal ganglia connectome! Congratulations to everyone involved 😊🎉
Check out interactive 3D models, analysis you can perform in your browser, & our interactive matrices; all on the website!
songbird-connectomics.org
Check out interactive 3D models, analysis you can perform in your browser, & our interactive matrices; all on the website!
songbird-connectomics.org
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Wouldn't it be great if we could not only image large connectomic volumes but also completely reconstruct them? And if a whole mouse brain project didn't cost billions?
With the PATHFINDER preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), we preview a future where it doesn't have to.
With the PATHFINDER preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), we preview a future where it doesn't have to.
May 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Wouldn't it be great if we could not only image large connectomic volumes but also completely reconstruct them? And if a whole mouse brain project didn't cost billions?
With the PATHFINDER preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), we preview a future where it doesn't have to.
With the PATHFINDER preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), we preview a future where it doesn't have to.
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Nice, thanks for pointing this out! "Saw the preview, don't have to see the movie" isn't always true. :)
The approach is simple and smart and allows one to sidestep the problem of how to losslessly subdivide a whole brain. Good.
The approach is simple and smart and allows one to sidestep the problem of how to losslessly subdivide a whole brain. Good.
May 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Nice, thanks for pointing this out! "Saw the preview, don't have to see the movie" isn't always true. :)
The approach is simple and smart and allows one to sidestep the problem of how to losslessly subdivide a whole brain. Good.
The approach is simple and smart and allows one to sidestep the problem of how to losslessly subdivide a whole brain. Good.
An important addition to the Nature paper, beyond what was shown in the 2024 preprint, is 12 rounds of iterative imaging and sectioning of a LICONN volume, achieving 205 microns in axial extent (native scale) with manual tracing of axons: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
An important addition to the Nature paper, beyond what was shown in the 2024 preprint, is 12 rounds of iterative imaging and sectioning of a LICONN volume, achieving 205 microns in axial extent (native scale) with manual tracing of axons: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nature research paper: Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue
https://go.nature.com/3YCLkuZ
https://go.nature.com/3YCLkuZ
Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue - Nature
A technique called LICONN (light-microscopy-based connectomics) allows mapping of brain tissue at synapse level and simultaneous measurement of molecular information, thus enabling quantification of cellular properties and multimodal analysis of brain tissue.
go.nature.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Nature research paper: Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue
https://go.nature.com/3YCLkuZ
https://go.nature.com/3YCLkuZ
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New era for brain mapping, latest from Johann Danzl lab in @nature.com. Light-microscopy connectomics is at single-synapse resolution. Engineered hydrogel embedding + expansion, deep learning-based segmentation, and molecularly resolved reconstructions: axons, spines, connectivity, all visible.
May 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New era for brain mapping, latest from Johann Danzl lab in @nature.com. Light-microscopy connectomics is at single-synapse resolution. Engineered hydrogel embedding + expansion, deep learning-based segmentation, and molecularly resolved reconstructions: axons, spines, connectivity, all visible.
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Predict the zebrafish brain: github.com/google-resea...
GitHub - google-research/zapbench: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress on the problem of predicting cellular-resolution neural activity throughout an entire vertebrate brain.
The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress on the problem of predicting cellular-resolution neural activity throughout an entire vertebrate brain. - google-research/zapbench
github.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Predict the zebrafish brain: github.com/google-resea...
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⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!)
Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench
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Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench
🧠🧪
ZAPBench
ZAPBench evaluates how well different models can predict the activity of over 70,000 neurons in a novel larval zebrafish dataset.
google-research.github.io
March 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!)
Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench
🧠🧪
Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench
🧠🧪
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Astounding achievement and even more astounding numbers here
Harvard and Google AI mapped one cubic millimeter of a human brain. It took up 1.4 petabytes of storage just in pictures of the specimen. So the entire brain would take ~ 1.6 zettabytes of storage, cost $50 billion, and require 140 acres. It would be the largest data center on the planet— one brain.
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers
Mind-boggling mind research.
www.tomshardware.com
December 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Astounding achievement and even more astounding numbers here
TensorStore (github.com/google/tensorstore) has had a huge 2024 and continues to power checkpointing for much of the largest ML work at Google, including Gemini, and support major Google Cloud customers training models on GCP. Read on for some specific 2024 updates!
December 18, 2024 at 4:54 PM
TensorStore (github.com/google/tensorstore) has had a huge 2024 and continues to power checkpointing for much of the largest ML work at Google, including Gemini, and support major Google Cloud customers training models on GCP. Read on for some specific 2024 updates!
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I just put out v3.5.1 of NGLui, which is a python package for building and parsing data-driven Neuroglancer states. It's a big update, with cool new stuff like annotation tags (at least if you're using a bleeding edge NGL deployment) and much richer parsing.
NGLui Documentation
caveconnectome.github.io
November 11, 2024 at 8:31 AM
I just put out v3.5.1 of NGLui, which is a python package for building and parsing data-driven Neuroglancer states. It's a big update, with cool new stuff like annotation tags (at least if you're using a bleeding edge NGL deployment) and much richer parsing.
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This paper is incredible. EM level connectomics on a light microscope.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 14, 2024 at 1:22 AM
This paper is incredible. EM level connectomics on a light microscope.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Can a computer be programmed to simulate a brain?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How AI could lead to a better understanding of the brain
Early machine-learning systems were inspired by neural networks — now AI might allow neuroscientists to get to grips with the brain’s unique complexities. Early machine-learning systems were inspi...
www.nature.com
November 8, 2023 at 1:24 AM
Can a computer be programmed to simulate a brain?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mexico City is gorgeous!
September 22, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Mexico City is gorgeous!
Would you like to see more housing in San Francisco? If not, cool, we'll find something else to agree on.
But if you do, then come party with me and others at the YIMBY homecoming on October 13! Grab your ticket here: bit.ly/45mGrHD
But if you do, then come party with me and others at the YIMBY homecoming on October 13! Grab your ticket here: bit.ly/45mGrHD
September 14, 2023 at 3:05 AM
Would you like to see more housing in San Francisco? If not, cool, we'll find something else to agree on.
But if you do, then come party with me and others at the YIMBY homecoming on October 13! Grab your ticket here: bit.ly/45mGrHD
But if you do, then come party with me and others at the YIMBY homecoming on October 13! Grab your ticket here: bit.ly/45mGrHD
Been using @waymo.bsky.social throughout SF the past week. Cannot believe what they have achieved. What a revolution.
September 14, 2023 at 3:03 AM
Been using @waymo.bsky.social throughout SF the past week. Cannot believe what they have achieved. What a revolution.