Drew Friedmann

An old friend asked if I had any videos of cilia laying around for her class to see. I dug up this one from about 10 years ago and it could maybe win a prize for 'most similar to a wacky waving inflatable tube man'.

Now online! Architecture of the serotonergic projectome in the mouse brain

New year, new swag. I'm happy to share that I've started up at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics-- joining a wonderful team and really looking forward to scaling up from terabytes to petabytes and beyond.

Excited to share our latest findings, now published @NatureNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41... We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties. Threads will follow!

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Alright, let's see how bluesky handles video. Here's 37 million TH+ somas imaged from 240 mice. There's so much structure in SNc! And yes, the left hemisphere had a synuclein insult and is partly degenerated.

As a new user here, this is simply a post to initialize the feed and set the expectation for more whole-brain lightsheet content to come.