Many of the scientists we support have close ties and, in some cases, ongoing collaboration. We support consortia of laboratories working together on specific topics with common goals that can only be achieved by sharing skills, experience and resources.
We support two consortia in particular – the Connectomics Consortium and the California Circuits Consortium. Each comprises five laboratories across three separate institutions.
The Connectomics Consortium is using hardware, software and biological tools separately developed in laboratories at Harvard University, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to collectively enable the construction of wiring diagrams of whole regions of the nervous system.
The California Circuits Consortium involves laboratories at Stanford, the Salk Institute and the University of California, San Diego, collaborating to develop and refine tools for the functional analysis of cortical circuits underlying higher brain function.
Projects
We support this consortium, which is using hardware, software and biological tools separately developed in laboratories at three US institutes to collectively enable the construction of “connectomes” – wiring diagrams of whole regions of the nervous system.
We support this consortium of five laboratories at three institutes across California collaborating to develop and refine tools for the functional analysis of cortical circuits underlying higher brain function, such as visual perception and attention.