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

Lab Partners

  • Berens Lab, Universität Tübingen, Germany
  • David Berson, Brown University, RI, USA
  • Briggman Lab, MPI for Neurobiology of Behavior, Germany
  • Demb Lab, Yale University, CT, USA
  • Euler Lab, Universität Tübingen, Germany
  • Feller Lab, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Franke Lab, Universität Tübingen, Germany
  • Gollisch Lab, Universität Göttingen, Germany
  • Hattar Lab, NIH / NIMH
  • Im Lab, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
  • Kerschensteiner Lab, Washington University
  • Marre Lab, Institute de la Vision, France
  • Popratiloff Lab, George Washington University, D. C., USA
  • Puthussery Lab, UC Berkeley
  • Renna Lab, University of Akron, OH, USA
  • Samuel Lab, Baylor University, TX, USA
  • Schwartz Lab, Northwestern University, IL, USA
  • Seung Lab, Princeton University, NJ, USA
  • Shekar Lab, UC Berkeley
  • Singer Lab, University of Maryland, MD, USA
  • Sivyer and Wright Lab, Oregon Health and Science University, OR, USA and University of Sydney, Australia
  • Taylor Lab, UC Berkeley
  • Tsukamoto Lab, Hyogo Medical University, Japan
  • Tykocki Lab, Michigan State University, MI, USA
  • Vlasits Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
  • Völgyi Lab, University of Pécs, Hungary
  • Wei Lab, University of Chicago, IL, USA
  • Williams Lab, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
  • Yonehara Lab, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
  • Zeck Lab, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA
  • Zhou Lab, Yale 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

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).

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