The BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN), an international collaboration of researchers, detailed the exceptionally complex diversity of cells in the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain in a collection of papers published in October in Science, Science Advances, and Science Translational Medicine.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science hosted a virtual webinar on Thursday, October 26, showcasing research highlights from the latest collection of publications from the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Cell Census Network (BICCN).
These studies characterized the genetic, cellular, and structural makeup of the human brain and the non-human primate brain at unprecedented scale and cellular resolution. These new datasets offer important implications for understanding of human brain function in health and disease.
Speakers:
- Ed Lein, Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Introduction
- Kimberly Siletti, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
- Transcriptomic diversity of cell types in the adult human brain
- Trygve Bakken, Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Comparative transcriptomics reveals human-specific cortical features
- Lijuan Liu, Southeast University, China
- Whole human-brain mapping of single cortical neurons for profiling morphological diversity and stereotypy
- Wei Tian, Salk Institute
- Epigenomic complexity of the human brain revealed by single-cell DNA methylomes and 3D genome structures
- Chang Kim, University of California, San Francisco
- Spatiotemporal molecular dynamics of the developing human thalamus
Read more about these momentous research results on The BRAIN Blog and also explore these papers on the Allen Institute BICCN webpage. In more recent BICCN news, the collaborative research network continues to push the field of neuroscience forward, having unveiled an unprecedented map of the entire mouse brain earlier this month in 10 articles published in Nature.