--- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '19704' abstract: - lang: eng text: The information-processing capability of the brain’s cellular network depends on the physical wiring pattern between neurons and their molecular and functional characteristics. Mapping neurons and resolving their individual synaptic connections can be achieved by volumetric imaging at nanoscale resolution1,2 with dense cellular labelling. Light microscopy is uniquely positioned to visualize specific molecules, but dense, synapse-level circuit reconstruction by light microscopy has been out of reach, owing to limitations in resolution, contrast and volumetric imaging capability. Here we describe light-microscopy-based connectomics (LICONN). We integrated specifically engineered hydrogel embedding and expansion with comprehensive deep-learning-based segmentation and analysis of connectivity, thereby directly incorporating molecular information into synapse-level reconstructions of brain tissue. LICONN will allow synapse-level phenotyping of brain tissue in biological experiments in a readily adoptable manner. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc - _id: ScienComp - _id: PreCl - _id: M-Shop - _id: E-Lib acknowledgement: 'We thank S. Dorkenwald and P. Li for critical reading of the manuscript, S. Loomba for discussions and E. Miguel for support with data handling. We acknowledge support from ISTA’s scientific service units: Imaging and Optics, Lab Support, Scientific Computing, the preclinical facility, the Miba Machine Shop and the library. We acknowledge funding from the following sources: Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant DK W1232 (J.G.D. and M.R.T.); Austrian Academy of Sciences DOC fellowship 26137 (M.R.T.); Gesellschaft für Forschungsförderung NÖ (NFB) grant LSC18-022 (J.G.D.); the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship 665385 (J.L.); and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and European Research Council (ERC) grant 101044865 ‘SecretAutism’ (G.N.).Open access funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria).' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Mojtaba full_name: Tavakoli, Mojtaba id: 3A0A06F4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tavakoli orcid: 0000-0002-7667-6854 - first_name: Julia full_name: Lyudchik, Julia id: 46E28B80-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lyudchik - first_name: Michał full_name: Januszewski, Michał last_name: Januszewski - first_name: Vitali full_name: Vistunou, Vitali id: 7e146587-8972-11ed-ae7b-d7a32ea86a81 last_name: Vistunou - first_name: Nathalie full_name: Agudelo Duenas, Nathalie id: 40E7F008-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Agudelo Duenas - first_name: Jakob full_name: Vorlaufer, Jakob id: 937696FA-C996-11E9-8C7C-CF13E6697425 last_name: Vorlaufer orcid: 0009-0000-7590-3501 - first_name: Christoph M full_name: Sommer, Christoph M id: 4DF26D8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sommer orcid: 0000-0003-1216-9105 - first_name: Caroline full_name: Kreuzinger, Caroline id: 382077BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kreuzinger - first_name: Bárbara full_name: Oliveira, Bárbara id: 3B03AA1A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Oliveira - first_name: Alban full_name: Cenameri, Alban id: 9ac8f577-2357-11eb-997a-e566c5550886 last_name: Cenameri - first_name: Gaia full_name: Novarino, Gaia id: 3E57A680-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novarino orcid: 0000-0002-7673-7178 - first_name: Viren full_name: Jain, Viren last_name: Jain - first_name: Johann G full_name: Danzl, Johann G id: 42EFD3B6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Danzl orcid: 0000-0001-8559-3973 citation: ama: Tavakoli M, Lyudchik J, Januszewski M, et al. Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue. Nature. 2025;642:398-410. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08985-1 apa: Tavakoli, M., Lyudchik, J., Januszewski, M., Vistunou, V., Agudelo Duenas, N., Vorlaufer, J., … Danzl, J. G. (2025). Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue. Nature. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08985-1 chicago: Tavakoli, Mojtaba, Julia Lyudchik, Michał Januszewski, Vitali Vistunou, Nathalie Agudelo Duenas, Jakob Vorlaufer, Christoph M Sommer, et al. “Light-Microscopy-Based Connectomic Reconstruction of Mammalian Brain Tissue.” Nature. Springer Nature, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08985-1. ieee: M. Tavakoli et al., “Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue,” Nature, vol. 642. Springer Nature, pp. 398–410, 2025. ista: Tavakoli M, Lyudchik J, Januszewski M, Vistunou V, Agudelo Duenas N, Vorlaufer J, Sommer CM, Kreuzinger C, Oliveira B, Cenameri A, Novarino G, Jain V, Danzl JG. 2025. Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue. Nature. 642, 398–410. mla: Tavakoli, Mojtaba, et al. “Light-Microscopy-Based Connectomic Reconstruction of Mammalian Brain Tissue.” Nature, vol. 642, Springer Nature, 2025, pp. 398–410, doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08985-1. short: M. Tavakoli, J. Lyudchik, M. Januszewski, V. Vistunou, N. Agudelo Duenas, J. Vorlaufer, C.M. Sommer, C. Kreuzinger, B. Oliveira, A. Cenameri, G. Novarino, V. Jain, J.G. Danzl, Nature 642 (2025) 398–410. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2025-05-18T22:02:51Z date_published: 2025-06-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-02T09:59:44Z day: '12' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: JoDa - _id: GradSch - _id: Bio - _id: GaNo doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-08985-1 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001483477000001' pmid: - '40335689' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: ebc99d7108e728f46db0a009292675ef content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2025-07-03T06:55:20Z date_updated: 2025-07-03T06:55:20Z file_id: '19959' file_name: 2025_Nature_Tavakoli.pdf file_size: 133201290 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2025-07-03T06:55:20Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08985-1 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 642' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 398-410 pmid: 1 project: - _id: 6285a163-2b32-11ec-9570-8e204ca2dba5 grant_number: '26137' name: Studying Organelle Structure and Function at Nanoscale Resolution with Expansion Microscopy - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program - _id: 34ba8964-11ca-11ed-8bc3-e15864e7e9a6 grant_number: '101044865' name: Toward an understanding of the brain interstitial system and the extracellular proteome in health and autism spectrum disorders - _id: 26AA4EF2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: W1232-B24 name: Molecular Drug Targets publication: Nature publication_identifier: eissn: - 1476-4687 issn: - 0028-0836 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on ISTA website relation: press_release url: https://ista.ac.at/en/news/piecing-together-the-brain-puzzle/ record: - id: '18697' relation: research_data status: public - id: '18677' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd volume: 642 year: '2025' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '19003' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Super-resolution methods provide far better spatial resolution than the optical diffraction limit of about half the wavelength of light (∼200-300 nm). Nevertheless, they have yet to attain widespread use in plants, largely due to plants’ challenging optical properties. Expansion microscopy improves effective resolution by isotropically increasing the physical distances between sample structures while preserving relative spatial arrangements and clearing the sample. However, its application to plants has been hindered by the rigid, mechanically cohesive structure of plant tissues. Here, we report on whole-mount expansion microscopy of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) root tissues (PlantEx), achieving a four-fold resolution increase over conventional microscopy. Our results highlight the microtubule cytoskeleton organization and interaction between molecularly defined cellular constituents. Combining PlantEx with stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy, we increase nanoscale resolution and visualize the complex organization of subcellular organelles from intact tissues by example of the densely packed COPI-coated vesicles associated with the Golgi apparatus and put these into a cellular structural context. Our results show that expansion microscopy can be applied to increase effective imaging resolution in Arabidopsis root specimens. ' acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc - _id: E-Lib - _id: M-Shop acknowledgement: "We gratefully acknowledge support by the Scientific Service Units at ISTA, including the Imaging and Optics and Lab Support facilities and the mechanical workshop and Library. We thank Philipp Velicky for STED microscope alignment.\r\nThis project has received funding from the European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (grant agreement No 742985, J.F.). It has also received funding from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385 (M.G.). S.T. has received funding as an ISTplus Fellow from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 754411 and from EMBO via a Long-Term Fellowship (grant number ALTF 679-2018). M.R.T. received funding from the Austrian Academy of Sciences with DOC fellowship no. 26137. The project has further received funding from the Austrian Science Fund, via grant DK W1232 (M.R.T., N.A.D., and J.G.D). W.J. received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program (LT000557/2018). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript." article_number: koaf006 article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Michelle C full_name: Gallei, Michelle C id: 35A03822-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Gallei orcid: 0000-0003-1286-7368 - first_name: Sven M full_name: Truckenbrodt, Sven M id: 45812BD4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Truckenbrodt - first_name: Caroline full_name: Kreuzinger, Caroline id: 382077BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kreuzinger - first_name: Syamala full_name: Inumella, Syamala id: F8660870-D756-11E9-98C5-34DFE5697425 last_name: Inumella orcid: 0009-0002-5890-120X - first_name: Vitali full_name: Vistunou, Vitali id: 7e146587-8972-11ed-ae7b-d7a32ea86a81 last_name: Vistunou - first_name: Christoph M full_name: Sommer, Christoph M id: 4DF26D8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sommer orcid: 0000-0003-1216-9105 - first_name: Mojtaba full_name: Tavakoli, Mojtaba id: 3A0A06F4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tavakoli orcid: 0000-0002-7667-6854 - first_name: Nathalie full_name: Agudelo Duenas, Nathalie id: 40E7F008-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Agudelo Duenas - first_name: Jakob full_name: Vorlaufer, Jakob id: 937696FA-C996-11E9-8C7C-CF13E6697425 last_name: Vorlaufer orcid: 0009-0000-7590-3501 - first_name: Wiebke full_name: Jahr, Wiebke id: 425C1CE8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Jahr orcid: 0000-0003-0201-2315 - first_name: Marek full_name: Randuch, Marek id: 6ac4636d-15b2-11ec-abd3-fb8df79972ae last_name: Randuch - first_name: Alexander J full_name: Johnson, Alexander J id: 46A62C3A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Johnson orcid: 0000-0002-2739-8843 - first_name: Eva full_name: Benková, Eva id: 38F4F166-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Benková orcid: 0000-0002-8510-9739 - first_name: Jiří full_name: Friml, Jiří id: 4159519E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Friml orcid: 0000-0002-8302-7596 - first_name: Johann G full_name: Danzl, Johann G id: 42EFD3B6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Danzl orcid: 0000-0001-8559-3973 citation: ama: Gallei MC, Truckenbrodt SM, Kreuzinger C, et al. Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots. The Plant Cell. 2025;37(4). doi:10.1093/plcell/koaf006 apa: Gallei, M. C., Truckenbrodt, S. M., Kreuzinger, C., Inumella, S., Vistunou, V., Sommer, C. M., … Danzl, J. G. (2025). Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots. The Plant Cell. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf006 chicago: Gallei, Michelle C, Sven M Truckenbrodt, Caroline Kreuzinger, Syamala Inumella, Vitali Vistunou, Christoph M Sommer, Mojtaba Tavakoli, et al. “Super-Resolution Expansion Microscopy in Plant Roots.” The Plant Cell. Oxford University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf006. ieee: M. C. Gallei et al., “Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots,” The Plant Cell, vol. 37, no. 4. Oxford University Press, 2025. ista: Gallei MC, Truckenbrodt SM, Kreuzinger C, Inumella S, Vistunou V, Sommer CM, Tavakoli M, Agudelo Duenas N, Vorlaufer J, Jahr W, Randuch M, Johnson AJ, Benková E, Friml J, Danzl JG. 2025. Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots. The Plant Cell. 37(4), koaf006. mla: Gallei, Michelle C., et al. “Super-Resolution Expansion Microscopy in Plant Roots.” The Plant Cell, vol. 37, no. 4, koaf006, Oxford University Press, 2025, doi:10.1093/plcell/koaf006. short: M.C. Gallei, S.M. Truckenbrodt, C. Kreuzinger, S. Inumella, V. Vistunou, C.M. Sommer, M. Tavakoli, N. Agudelo Duenas, J. Vorlaufer, W. Jahr, M. Randuch, A.J. Johnson, E. Benková, J. Friml, J.G. Danzl, The Plant Cell 37 (2025). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2025-02-05T06:52:06Z date_published: 2025-04-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-20T09:19:12Z day: '01' ddc: - '580' department: - _id: EvBe - _id: JoDa - _id: JiFr doi: 10.1093/plcell/koaf006 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001462763100001' pmid: - '39792900' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 9d3f8218ff37a29f29c48a7bbe831bd3 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2025-07-31T07:03:43Z date_updated: 2025-07-31T07:03:43Z file_id: '20092' file_name: 2025_PlantCell_Gallei.pdf file_size: 53904111 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2025-07-31T07:03:43Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf006 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 37' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 261099A6-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '742985' name: Tracing Evolution of Auxin Transport and Polarity in Plants - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program - _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '754411' name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships - _id: 269B5B22-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ALTF 679-2018 name: UltraX - achieving sub-nanometer resolution in light microscopy using iterative X10 microscopy in combination with nanobodies and STED - _id: 6285a163-2b32-11ec-9570-8e204ca2dba5 grant_number: '26137' name: Studying Organelle Structure and Function at Nanoscale Resolution with Expansion Microscopy - _id: 26AA4EF2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: W1232-B24 name: Molecular Drug Targets publication: The Plant Cell publication_identifier: eissn: - 1532-298X issn: - 1040-4651 publication_status: published publisher: Oxford University Press quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '18837' relation: research_data status: public - id: '18689' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 37 year: '2025' ... --- OA_place: repository _id: '18689' abstract: - lang: eng text: Multiplexed fluorescence microscopy imaging is widely used in biomedical applications. However, simultaneous imaging of multiple fluorophores can result in spectral leaks and overlapping, which greatly degrades image quality and subsequent analysis. Existing popular spectral unmixing methods are mainly based on computational intensive linear models and the performance is heavily dependent on the reference spectra, which may greatly preclude its further applications. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based blindly spectral unmixing method, termed AutoUnmix, to imitate the physical spectral mixing process. A tranfer learning framework is further devised to allow our AutoUnmix adapting to a variety of imaging systems without retraining the network. Our proposed method has demonstrated real-time unmixing capabilities, surpassing existing methods by up to 100-fold in terms of unmixing speed. We further validate the reconstruction performance on both synthetic datasets and biological samples. The unmixing results of AutoUnmix achieve a highest SSIM of 0.99 in both three- and four-color imaging, with nearly up to 20% higher than other popular unmixing methods. Due to the desirable property of data independency and superior blind unmixing performance, we believe AutoUnmix is a powerful tool to study the interaction process of different organelles labeled by multiple fluorophores. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc - _id: M-Shop - _id: E-Lib acknowledgement: "We gratefully acknowledge support by the Scientific Service Units at ISTA, including the Imaging and Optics and Lab Support facilities and the mechanical workshop and Library. We thank Philipp Velicky for STED microscope alignment.\r\n\r\nThis project has received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): I 3630-B25 (J.G.D) and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 742985, J.F.). It has also received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. S.T. has received funding as an ISTplus Fellow from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 754411 and from an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship (grant number ALTF 679-2018). It has further received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant DK W1232 (M.T, N.A-D., J.G.D). W.J. received funding via a Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellowship LT000557/2018.\r\n\r\nThe funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript." article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Michelle C full_name: Gallei, Michelle C id: 35A03822-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Gallei orcid: 0000-0003-1286-7368 - first_name: Sven M full_name: Truckenbrodt, Sven M id: 45812BD4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Truckenbrodt - first_name: Caroline full_name: Kreuzinger, Caroline id: 382077BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kreuzinger - first_name: Syamala full_name: Inumella, Syamala id: F8660870-D756-11E9-98C5-34DFE5697425 last_name: Inumella orcid: 0009-0002-5890-120X - first_name: Vitali full_name: Vistunou, Vitali id: 7e146587-8972-11ed-ae7b-d7a32ea86a81 last_name: Vistunou - first_name: Christoph M full_name: Sommer, Christoph M id: 4DF26D8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sommer orcid: 0000-0003-1216-9105 - first_name: Mojtaba full_name: Tavakoli, Mojtaba id: 3A0A06F4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tavakoli orcid: 0000-0002-7667-6854 - first_name: Nathalie full_name: Agudelo Duenas, Nathalie id: 40E7F008-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Agudelo Duenas - first_name: Jakob full_name: Vorlaufer, Jakob id: 937696FA-C996-11E9-8C7C-CF13E6697425 last_name: Vorlaufer orcid: 0009-0000-7590-3501 - first_name: Wiebke full_name: Jahr, Wiebke id: 425C1CE8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Jahr orcid: 0000-0003-0201-2315 - first_name: Marek full_name: Randuch, Marek id: 6ac4636d-15b2-11ec-abd3-fb8df79972ae last_name: Randuch - first_name: Alexander J full_name: Johnson, Alexander J id: 46A62C3A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Johnson orcid: 0000-0002-2739-8843 - first_name: Eva full_name: Benková, Eva id: 38F4F166-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Benková orcid: 0000-0002-8510-9739 - first_name: Jiří full_name: Friml, Jiří id: 4159519E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Friml orcid: 0000-0002-8302-7596 - first_name: Johann G full_name: Danzl, Johann G id: 42EFD3B6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Danzl orcid: 0000-0001-8559-3973 citation: ama: Gallei MC, Truckenbrodt SM, Kreuzinger C, et al. Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.02.21.581330 apa: Gallei, M. C., Truckenbrodt, S. M., Kreuzinger, C., Inumella, S., Vistunou, V., Sommer, C. M., … Danzl, J. G. (n.d.). Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330 chicago: Gallei, Michelle C, Sven M Truckenbrodt, Caroline Kreuzinger, Syamala Inumella, Vitali Vistunou, Christoph M Sommer, Mojtaba Tavakoli, et al. “Super-Resolution Expansion Microscopy in Plant Roots.” BioRxiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330. ieee: M. C. Gallei et al., “Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots,” bioRxiv. . ista: Gallei MC, Truckenbrodt SM, Kreuzinger C, Inumella S, Vistunou V, Sommer CM, Tavakoli M, Agudelo Duenas N, Vorlaufer J, Jahr W, Randuch M, Johnson AJ, Benková E, Friml J, Danzl JG. Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots. bioRxiv, 10.1101/2024.02.21.581330. mla: Gallei, Michelle C., et al. “Super-Resolution Expansion Microscopy in Plant Roots.” BioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2024.02.21.581330. short: M.C. Gallei, S.M. Truckenbrodt, C. Kreuzinger, S. Inumella, V. Vistunou, C.M. Sommer, M. Tavakoli, N. Agudelo Duenas, J. Vorlaufer, W. Jahr, M. Randuch, A.J. Johnson, E. Benková, J. Friml, J.G. Danzl, BioRxiv (n.d.). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2024-12-19T12:28:00Z date_published: 2024-02-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-02T11:27:43Z day: '21' department: - _id: EvBe - _id: JoDa - _id: JiFr doi: 10.1101/2024.02.21.581330 ec_funded: 1 fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330 language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 261099A6-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '742985' name: Tracing Evolution of Auxin Transport and Polarity in Plants - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program - _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '754411' name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships - _id: 26AA4EF2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: W1232-B24 name: Molecular Drug Targets - _id: 269B5B22-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ALTF 679-2018 name: UltraX - achieving sub-nanometer resolution in light microscopy using iterative X10 microscopy in combination with nanobodies and STED publication: bioRxiv publication_status: draft related_material: record: - id: '19003' relation: later_version status: public - id: '18681' relation: dissertation_contains status: public researchdata_availability: no status: public supplementarymaterial: no title: Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) short: CC BY-NC (4.0) type: preprint user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 year: '2024' ... --- OA_place: repository _id: '18677' abstract: - lang: eng text: The information-processing capability of the brain’s cellular network depends on the physical wiring pattern between neurons and their molecular and functional characteristics. Mapping neurons and resolving their individual synaptic connections can be achieved by volumetric imaging at nanoscale resolution with dense cellular labeling. Light microscopy is uniquely positioned to visualize specific molecules but dense, synapse-level circuit reconstruction by light microscopy has been out of reach due to limitations in resolution, contrast, and volumetric imaging capability. Here we developed light-microscopy based connectomics (LICONN). We integrated specifically engineered hydrogel embedding and expansion with comprehensive deep-learning based segmentation and analysis of connectivity, thus directly incorporating molecular information in synapse-level brain tissue reconstructions. LICONN will allow synapse-level brain tissue phenotyping in biological experiments in a readily adoptable manner. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: E-Lib - _id: M-Shop - _id: LifeSc - _id: Bio - _id: ScienComp acknowledgement: "We thank Sven Dorkenwald and Peter Li for critical reading of the\r\nmanuscript. We acknowledge expert support by ISTA’s scientific service units: Imaging and\r\nOptics, Lab Support, Scientific Computing, Preclinical Facility, Miba Machine Shop, and Library.\r\nWe gratefully acknowledge funding by the following sources:\r\nAustrian Science Fund (FWF) grant DK W1232 (JGD, MRT)\r\nAustrian Academy of Sciences DOC fellowship 26137 (MRT)\r\nEU Horizon 2020 program, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship 665385 (JL)\r\nGesellschaft für Forschungsförderung NÖ (NFB) grant LSC18-022 (JGD)\r\nEuropean Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, European Research\r\nCouncil (ERC) grant 101044865 “SecretAutism.”\r\n" article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Mojtaba full_name: Tavakoli, Mojtaba id: 3A0A06F4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tavakoli orcid: 0000-0002-7667-6854 - first_name: Julia full_name: Lyudchik, Julia id: 46E28B80-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lyudchik - first_name: Michał full_name: Januszewski, Michał last_name: Januszewski - first_name: Vitali full_name: Vistunou, Vitali id: 7e146587-8972-11ed-ae7b-d7a32ea86a81 last_name: Vistunou - first_name: Nathalie full_name: Agudelo Duenas, Nathalie id: 40E7F008-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Agudelo Duenas - first_name: Jakob full_name: Vorlaufer, Jakob id: 937696FA-C996-11E9-8C7C-CF13E6697425 last_name: Vorlaufer orcid: 0009-0000-7590-3501 - first_name: Christoph M full_name: Sommer, Christoph M id: 4DF26D8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sommer orcid: 0000-0003-1216-9105 - first_name: Caroline full_name: Kreuzinger, Caroline id: 382077BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kreuzinger - first_name: Bárbara full_name: Oliveira, Bárbara id: 3B03AA1A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Oliveira - first_name: Alban full_name: Cenameri, Alban id: 9ac8f577-2357-11eb-997a-e566c5550886 last_name: Cenameri - first_name: Gaia full_name: Novarino, Gaia id: 3E57A680-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novarino orcid: 0000-0002-7673-7178 - first_name: Viren full_name: Jain, Viren last_name: Jain - first_name: Johann G full_name: Danzl, Johann G id: 42EFD3B6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Danzl orcid: 0000-0001-8559-3973 citation: ama: Tavakoli M, Lyudchik J, Januszewski M, et al. Light-microscopy based dense connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.03.01.582884 apa: Tavakoli, M., Lyudchik, J., Januszewski, M., Vistunou, V., Agudelo Duenas, N., Vorlaufer, J., … Danzl, J. G. (n.d.). Light-microscopy based dense connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.01.582884 chicago: Tavakoli, Mojtaba, Julia Lyudchik, Michał Januszewski, Vitali Vistunou, Nathalie Agudelo Duenas, Jakob Vorlaufer, Christoph M Sommer, et al. “Light-Microscopy Based Dense Connectomic Reconstruction of Mammalian Brain Tissue.” BioRxiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.01.582884. ieee: M. Tavakoli et al., “Light-microscopy based dense connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue,” bioRxiv. . ista: Tavakoli M, Lyudchik J, Januszewski M, Vistunou V, Agudelo Duenas N, Vorlaufer J, Sommer CM, Kreuzinger C, Oliveira B, Cenameri A, Novarino G, Jain V, Danzl JG. Light-microscopy based dense connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue. bioRxiv, 10.1101/2024.03.01.582884. mla: Tavakoli, Mojtaba, et al. “Light-Microscopy Based Dense Connectomic Reconstruction of Mammalian Brain Tissue.” BioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2024.03.01.582884. short: M. Tavakoli, J. Lyudchik, M. Januszewski, V. Vistunou, N. Agudelo Duenas, J. Vorlaufer, C.M. Sommer, C. Kreuzinger, B. Oliveira, A. Cenameri, G. Novarino, V. Jain, J.G. Danzl, BioRxiv (n.d.). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2024-12-18T14:48:24Z date_published: 2024-07-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-02T11:27:43Z day: '08' department: - _id: GaNo - _id: JoDa doi: 10.1101/2024.03.01.582884 ec_funded: 1 fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.01.582884 language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.01.582884 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 6285a163-2b32-11ec-9570-8e204ca2dba5 grant_number: '26137' name: Studying Organelle Structure and Function at Nanoscale Resolution with Expansion Microscopy - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program - _id: 34ba8964-11ca-11ed-8bc3-e15864e7e9a6 grant_number: '101044865' name: Toward an understanding of the brain interstitial system and the extracellular proteome in health and autism spectrum disorders - _id: 26AA4EF2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: W1232-B24 name: Molecular Drug Targets publication: bioRxiv publication_status: draft related_material: record: - id: '19704' relation: later_version status: public - id: '18674' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '18681' relation: dissertation_contains status: public researchdata_availability: no status: public supplementarymaterial: no title: Light-microscopy based dense connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-ND (4.0) type: preprint user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 year: '2024' ...