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eLife
Jun 30, 2025
Adam Glaser, Jayaram Chandrashekar, Sonya Vasquez, Cameron Arshadi, Rajvi Javeri, Naveen Ouellette, Xiaoyun Jiang, Judith Baka, Gabor Kovacs, Micah Woodard, Shamishtaa Seshamani, Kevin Cao, Nathan Clack, Andrew Recknagel, Anna Grim, Pooja Balaram, Emily Turschak, Marcus Hooper, Alan Liddell, John Rohde, Ayana Hellevik, Kevin Takasaki, Lindsey Erion Barner, Molly Logsdon, Chris Chronopoulos, Saskia EJ de Vries, Jonathan T Ting, Steven Perlmutter, Brian E Kalmbach, Nikolai Dembrow, Bosiljka Tasic, R Clay Reid, David Feng, Karel Svoboda, Melike Lakadamyali, John R Huguenard
Nature Methods
Apr 09, 2025
Sven Dorkenwald, Casey M. Schneider-Mizell, Derrick Brittain, Akhilesh Halageri, Chris Jordan, Nico Kemnitz, Manual A. Castro, William Silversmith, Jeremy Maitin-Shephard, Jakob Troidl, Hanspeter Pfister, Valentin Gillet, Daniel Xenes, J. Alexander Bae, Agnes L. Bodor, JoAnn Buchanan, Daniel J. Bumbarger, Leila Elabbady, Zhen Jia, Daniel Kapner, Sam Kinn, Kisuk Lee, Kai Li, Ran Lu, Thomas Macrina, Gayathri Mahalingam, Eric Mitchell, Shanka Subhra Mondal, Shang Mu, Barak Nehoran, Sergiy Popovych, Marc Takeno, Russel Torres, Nicholas L. Turner, William Wong, Jingpeng Wu, Wenjing Yin, Szi-Chieh Yu, R. Clay Reid, Nuno Maçarico da Costa, H. Sebastian Seung, Forrest Collman
Nature Communications
Marissa A. Weis, Stelios Papadopoulos, Laura Hansel, Timo Lüddecke, Brendan Celii, Paul G. Fahey, Eric Y. Wang, J. Alexander Bae, Agnes L. Bodor, Derrick Brittain, JoAnn Buchanan, Daniel J. Bumbarger, Manuel A. Castro, Forrest Collman, Nuno Maçarico da Costa, Sven Dorkenwald, Leila Elabbady, Akhilesh Halageri, Zhen Jia, Chris Jordan, Dan Kapner, Nico Kemnitz, Sam Kinn, Kisuk Lee, Kai Li, Ran Lu, Thomas Macrina, Gayathri Mahalingam, Eric Mitchell, Shanka Subhra Mondal, Shang Mu, Barak Nehoran, Sergiy Popovych, R. Clay Reid, Casey M. Schneider-Mizell, H. Sebastian Seung, William Silversmith, Marc Takeno, Russel Torres, Nicholas L. Turner, William Wong, Jingpeng Wu, Wenjing Yin, Szi-Chieh Yu, Jacob Reimer, Philipp Berens, Andreas S. Tolias, Alexander S. Ecker