Chklovskii, Dmitri Mitya
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He is at Janelia Farm and is
a Janelia Lab head from 2007 to present;</p>
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nickname is Mitya.
combines theoret and expt tools to reverse engr the brain.
Reconstructs brain's wiring diagram and quantit. formulates neuronal struc-function relationships.</p>
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educ (PhD in theoret physics at MIT)</p>
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working from ground up (C Elegans lives in ground: 302 neurons)</p>
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Brenner's group began in 1970s;;</p>
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slicing up a fly produces about 20,000 slices (at EM level)
cannot manually process those (as he did with C Elegans to complete wiring diagram)</p>
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