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
  • Im Lab, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
  • Marre Lab, Institute de la Vision, France
  • Popratiloff Lab, George Washington University, D. C., USA
  • Renna Lab, University of Akron, OH, USA
  • Samuel Lab, Baylor University, TX, USA
  • Seung Lab, Princeton University, NJ, USA
  • Singer Lab, University of Maryland, MD, USA
  • Schwartz Lab, Northwestern University, IL, USA
  • Sivyer and Wright Lab, Oregon Health and Science University, OR, USA and University of Sydney, Australia
  • Tsukamoto Lab, Kobe 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
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Core Team

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

The core support came from National Institutes of Health (NIH), Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI). 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 work in the Schwartz lab is supported by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) to the Northwestern University Department of Ophthalmology.

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