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Helene Schmidt

@helenelab.bsky.social

Group Leader at Ernst Struengmann Institute for Neuroscience in Frankfurt. The more synapses the better #connectomics.

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Connectomic analysis of astrocyte-synapse interactions in the cerebral cortex Astrocytes, a main type of glia cells in the cortex, provide metabolic support to neurons, and their possible function as a synaptic partner has given rise to the notion of โ€œtripartiteโ€ synapses, sugg...

Hi, we didnt analyse astrocytes in that dataset. But maybe this helps you further, this study looked at astrocytes in EM data (cortex) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

05.05.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks! This looks like a glia cell to me, but to be sure one would need to follow it a bit to see if the processes are glia like.

05.05.2025 15:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats to Eleonora, Maria and Mourat and thanks to scalableminds and @mhlab.bsky.social for incredible support! @ESI_Frankfurt @mpibrain.bsky.social

23.04.2025 07:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Connectomic traces of Hebbian plasticity in the entorhinal-hippocampal system The key model of how we learn and memorize is Hebbian learning in the hippocampus, via long-term potentiation of synapses, allowing the storage of associations, linkage to places, and their consolidat...

โ€ฆand we used this and our other datasets to sample systematically how a mouseโ€™s memory networks are configured synaptically www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... . Totally stunned by how special CA1 and CA3 are at the synaptic weight level!

23.04.2025 07:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Super happy that our papers #2 and #3 from our 3-person lab just went online on bioRxiv! First large-scale 3D EM dataset from mouse hippocampus CA1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - check out the beautiful data on webknossos wklink.org/7023 ! โ€ฆ

23.04.2025 07:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

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