Bobby Kasthuri | Mapping the Brain's Wiring Diagram at Industrial Scale
Foresight Institute’s Neurotech Group
Mapping the Brain's Wiring Diagram at Industrial Scale
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Abstract: Understanding how the brain works — and what goes wrong in disease — requires knowing how its 86 billion neurons are connected. For the first time, we have a technology capable of doing this at scale. NeuroPEEM (Photoelectron Emission Microscopy) is a new approach to electron microscopy that images brain tissue over 300× faster and cheaper than existing methods. In this talk, I will describe the science behind connectomics, why scale has been the central unsolved problem, and how NeuroPEEM changes the equation — with implications for neuroscience, psychiatry, and the future of AI.
Bio: Bobby Kasthuri is a neuroscientist, MD-PhD, and one of the founders of the modern field of connectomics. He is a Professor at the University of Chicago, Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and CEO of Meridian Neuro, a deep-tech startup commercializing NeuroPEEM technology for large-scale brain mapping. He has given Congressional briefings on brain mapping and is a Rhodes Scholar with nearly 30 years of experience studying the structure of the brain. meridian-neuro.com
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