Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements#

CRANTpy is heavily based on fafbseg-py, developed by Dr. Philipp Schlegel for the FlyWire Drosophila Connectome Project. We are deeply grateful for his foundational work, which has made this project possible.

Philipp Schlegel, PhD

  • Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

  • Drosophila Connectomics Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  • ORCID: 0000-0002-5633-1314

FlyWire Project#

CRANTpy builds upon the tools and datasets developed by the FlyWire project, which has provided invaluable resources for the neuroscience community.

If you use CRANTpy in your research, please try to also cite the FlyWire paper:

Schlegel et al. (2023). ā€œWhole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing quantifies circuit stereotypy in Drosophila.ā€ bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.27.546055

We also acknowledge the following foundational papers for the FAFB dataset:

Dorkenwald et al. (2023). ā€œNeuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain.ā€ bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.27.546656

Zheng et al. (2018). ā€œA Complete Electron Microscopy Volume of the Brain of Adult Drosophila melanogaster.ā€ Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.06.019

CRANTpy Project Contributors#

Project Leadership & Core Development#

Lindsey Lopes, PhD
Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY, USA
ORCID: 0009-0006-5716-4518
Contributions: EM volume generation, umbrella project direction, olfaction project direction, initial codebase, light microscopy registration, synaptic connectivity integration

Hannah Haberkern, PhD
Department of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology (Zoology 2), Biocenter, University of WĆ¼rzburg, WĆ¼rzburg, DE
ORCID: 0000-0002-6135-131X
Contributions: CX project direction

Alexander Bates, PhD
Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Department of Neurobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
ORCID: 0000-0002-1195-0445
Contributions: CRANTr project and initial codebase

Technical Development#

Giacomo Glotzer
Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY, USA
ORCID: 0000-0003-2404-6110
Contributions: L2 cache integration, visualization and synaptic connectivity

Rishika Mohanta
Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY, USA
ORCID: 0000-0002-1396-3215
Contributions: CAVE integration, Seatable integration, documentation management and quality assurance

Yigit Yargili
Department of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology (Zoology 2), Biocenter, University of WĆ¼rzburg, WĆ¼rzburg, DE ORCID: 0009-0007-8727-7553
Contributions: Skeletonization and synaptic connectivity

Funding & Institutional Support#

The CRANTb project is supported by:

  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • The Rockefeller University

  • Emmy-Noether grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, 513850388) to Hannah Haberkern

  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Community#

We thank the broader neuroscience and connectomics community for their ongoing support, feedback, and contributions to making CRANTpy a valuable tool for ant brain research.

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