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How we created the first map of an insect brain – and what it means for our understanding of the human brain

Michael Wilding is a Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK.
“I generated and analysed the first synaptic wiring diagram, or connectome, of an entire insect brain. Using this brain map and linked experimental tools, my group aims to understand how brain-wide computations generate social behaviours and how these computations go awry after social isolation or in disease.”