Compiling molecular ultrastructure into neural dynamics

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Hauptverfasser: Kording, Konrad P., Arkhipov, Anton, Deng, Davy, Escola, Sean, Grant, Seth G. N., Haspel, Gal, Januszewski, Michał, Kasthuri, Narayanan, Khera, Nina, Kohman, Richie E., Lindsay, Grace, Lunshof, Jeantine, Marblestone, Adam, Markowitz, David A., Matelsky, Jordan, Mensh, Brett, Mineault, Patrick, Payne, Andrew, Peng, Joanne, Pitkow, Xaq, Shiu, Philip, Schuhknecht, Gregor, Truckenbrodt, Sven, Vogelstein, Joshua T., Boyden, Edward S.
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author Kording, Konrad P.
Arkhipov, Anton
Deng, Davy
Escola, Sean
Grant, Seth G. N.
Haspel, Gal
Januszewski, Michał
Kasthuri, Narayanan
Khera, Nina
Kohman, Richie E.
Lindsay, Grace
Lunshof, Jeantine
Marblestone, Adam
Markowitz, David A.
Matelsky, Jordan
Mensh, Brett
Mineault, Patrick
Payne, Andrew
Peng, Joanne
Pitkow, Xaq
Shiu, Philip
Schuhknecht, Gregor
Truckenbrodt, Sven
Vogelstein, Joshua T.
Boyden, Edward S.
author_facet Kording, Konrad P.
Arkhipov, Anton
Deng, Davy
Escola, Sean
Grant, Seth G. N.
Haspel, Gal
Januszewski, Michał
Kasthuri, Narayanan
Khera, Nina
Kohman, Richie E.
Lindsay, Grace
Lunshof, Jeantine
Marblestone, Adam
Markowitz, David A.
Matelsky, Jordan
Mensh, Brett
Mineault, Patrick
Payne, Andrew
Peng, Joanne
Pitkow, Xaq
Shiu, Philip
Schuhknecht, Gregor
Truckenbrodt, Sven
Vogelstein, Joshua T.
Boyden, Edward S.
contents High-resolution brain imaging can now capture not just synapse locations but their molecular composition, with the cost of such mapping falling exponentially. Yet such ultrastructural data has so far told us little about local neuronal physiology - specifically, the parameters (e.g., synaptic efficacies, local conductances) that govern neural dynamics. We propose to translate molecularly annotated ultrastructure into physiology, introducing the concept of an ultrastructure-to-dynamics compiler: a learned mapping from molecularly annotated ultrastructure to simulator-ready, uncertainty-aware physiological parameters. The requirement is paired training data, with jointly acquired ultrastructure from imaging, and dynamical responses to perturbations from physiological experiments. With this data we can train models that predict local physiology directly from structure. Such a compiler would support biophysical simulations by turning anatomical maps into models of circuit dynamics, shifting structure-to-function from a descriptive program to a predictive one and opening routes to understanding neural computation and forecasting intervention effects.
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spellingShingle Compiling molecular ultrastructure into neural dynamics
Kording, Konrad P.
Arkhipov, Anton
Deng, Davy
Escola, Sean
Grant, Seth G. N.
Haspel, Gal
Januszewski, Michał
Kasthuri, Narayanan
Khera, Nina
Kohman, Richie E.
Lindsay, Grace
Lunshof, Jeantine
Marblestone, Adam
Markowitz, David A.
Matelsky, Jordan
Mensh, Brett
Mineault, Patrick
Payne, Andrew
Peng, Joanne
Pitkow, Xaq
Shiu, Philip
Schuhknecht, Gregor
Truckenbrodt, Sven
Vogelstein, Joshua T.
Boyden, Edward S.
Neurons and Cognition
Quantitative Methods
High-resolution brain imaging can now capture not just synapse locations but their molecular composition, with the cost of such mapping falling exponentially. Yet such ultrastructural data has so far told us little about local neuronal physiology - specifically, the parameters (e.g., synaptic efficacies, local conductances) that govern neural dynamics. We propose to translate molecularly annotated ultrastructure into physiology, introducing the concept of an ultrastructure-to-dynamics compiler: a learned mapping from molecularly annotated ultrastructure to simulator-ready, uncertainty-aware physiological parameters. The requirement is paired training data, with jointly acquired ultrastructure from imaging, and dynamical responses to perturbations from physiological experiments. With this data we can train models that predict local physiology directly from structure. Such a compiler would support biophysical simulations by turning anatomical maps into models of circuit dynamics, shifting structure-to-function from a descriptive program to a predictive one and opening routes to understanding neural computation and forecasting intervention effects.
title Compiling molecular ultrastructure into neural dynamics
topic Neurons and Cognition
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25713