HUMAN BRAIN

The Center for Computational Brain Research at IIT Madras is developing a high throughput computational and experimental pipeline to study cellular architecture, connectivity and molecular architecture in human brains. This effort is supported by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India along with contributions from Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder, Infosys and Distinguished Alumnus of IITM. Our aim is to establish an integrated histology-imaging-compute pipeline at IIT Madras to acquire petabyte sized image data volumes, including from postmortem brains of subjects deceased from natural and medical causes. These datasets can also provide important and rare insights into neuronal pathways in the brain. for example, a brain with rabies infection can uniquely reveal neuronal pathways at a single neuron level in contrast with previous methods. In parallel, the project aims to develop technologies including high throughput slide scanner and digitizer..