Consortium
Consortium
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Eyewire II retina dataset.

Lab Partners

  • Bae LabKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea
  • Berens LabUniversität Tübingen, Germany
  • David BersonBrown University, RI, USA
  • Briggman LabMPI for Neurobiology of Behavior, Germany
  • Demb LabYale University, CT, USA
  • Euler LabUniversität Tübingen, Germany
  • Feller LabUniversity of California at Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Franke LabUniversität Tübingen, Germany
  • Gollisch LabUniversität Göttingen, Germany
  • Hattar LabNIH / NIMH, MD, USA
  • Im LabKorea Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
  • Kerschensteiner LabWashington University, MO, USA
  • Marre LabInstitute de la Vision, France
  • Popratiloff LabGeorge Washington University, D.C., USA
  • Puthussery LabUC Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Renna LabUniversity of Akron, OH, USA
  • Samuel LabBaylor University, TX, USA
  • Schwartz LabNorthwestern University, IL, USA
  • Seung LabPrinceton University, NJ, USA
  • Shekar LabUC Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Singer LabUniversity of Maryland, MD, USA
  • Sivyer and Wright LabOregon Health and Science University, OR, USA and University of Sydney, Australia
  • Taylor LabUC Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Tsukamoto LabHyogo Medical University, Japan
  • Tykocki LabMichigan State University, MI, USA
  • Vlasits LabUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
  • Völgyi LabUniversity of Pécs, Hungary
  • Wei LabUniversity of Chicago, IL, USA
  • Williams LabWashington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
  • Yonehara LabNational Institute of Genetics, Japan
  • Zeck LabJohns Hopkins University, MD, USA
  • Zhou LabYale University, CT, USA
Eyewire II consortium labs illustration

Core Team

Complete Core Team

Sebastian Ströh, Simone Ebert, Julia Fadjukov, Jan Lause, Jonathan Oesterle, Katrin Franke, Ziwei Huang, Ran Lu, David Berson, Venus Sherathiya, Celia David, Marissa Sorek, Amy Sterling, Arie Matsliah, Chris Jordan, Gregory Schwartz, Philipp Berens, Thomas Euler, H. Sebastian Seung

Princeton University Universität Tübingen Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Roles & Responsibilities

Principal Investigators
H. Sebastian Seung (Princeton University), Thomas Euler (Tübingen University), Greg Schwartz (Northwestern), Philipp Berens (Tübingen University)
Operations & Community
Amy Sterling, Sebastian Ströh, Marissa Sorek, Celia David
Onboarding Managers
Marissa Sorek, Simone Ebert, Julia Fadjukov, Jan Lause
Software Engineering
Venus Sherathiya, Chris Jordan
Design
Amy Sterling, Chris Jordan
Sample Preparation
Sebastian Ströh (EM staining), Katrin Franke (Ca2+ imaging)
Sectioning & Imaging
Sebastian Ströh (image acquisition, coarse alignment, montaging)
Alignment & Synapses
Zetta.ai
Automated Segmentation
Ran Lu
Programming & Analysis
Sebastian Ströh, Ziwei Huang, Jonathan Oesterle, Simone Ebert, Jan Lause, Julia Fadjukov, Venus Sherathiya, Arie Matsliah, Philipp Berens, Greg Schwartz, Thomas Euler, H. Sebastian Seung
Proofreading Platform
Dorkenwald et al. 2021 — Eyewire II frontend adapted by Chris Jordan from Neuroglancer by Jeremy Maitin-Shepard (Google)
Annotation Infrastructure (CAVE)
Dorkenwald et al. 2023; Dorkenwald et al. 2024
Training Material
Marissa Sorek, Celia David, Amy Sterling

With additional thanks to all members of the Seung Lab and the Eyewire team.

Funding

RPB Transformational Team Science Award

The core support came from Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Seung lab receives support with compute resources from Amazon and Google. The Seung and Euler labs were supported by the NIH (5U01N5090562). The Euler and Berens labs were supported by the DFG (SPP 2041, 313856816). The Berens lab received funding from the ERC (NextMechMod, 101039115) and the Hertie Foundation. Eyewire II is supported through the Transformational Team Science Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB).

Research to Prevent Blindness European Research Council BRAIN CONNECTS BRAIN Initiative