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Design, Surface Treatment, Cellular Plating, and Culturing of Modular Neuronal Networks Composed of Functionally Inter-connected Circuits

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Spatial constraints and cell surface molecule depletion structure a randomly connected learning circuit.

Emma M Thornton-Kolbe¹, Maria Ahmed², Finley R Gordon²

¹Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

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|June 27, 2025

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Brain circuits use combinatorial connections to process sensory information. This study reveals how Kenyon cells in insects achieve diverse wiring by accepting molecularly varied inputs, explaining how identical neurons gain unique connections.

Keywords:

associative learning cell adhesion molecules circuit developmental algorithm expansion layer mushroom body olfaction pattern separation

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

The brain's ability to represent vast information relies on expansion-layer circuits.
Combinatorial connections in these layers, where few inputs connect to many outputs, are crucial but their developmental mechanisms are unclear.
The role of randomized wiring in vivo and its generation during development remains debated.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how Kenyon cells (expansion layer neurons in the insect mushroom body) receive combinatorial input from olfactory projection neurons.
To understand the anatomic and transcriptional patterns governing these connections.
To explore the role of cell surface molecule expression in Kenyon cell partner choice.

Main Methods:

Analysis of anatomic and transcriptional patterns in Kenyon cells and olfactory projection neurons.
Perturbation of partner availability to study connection specificity.
Investigating cell surface immunoglobulin expression in Kenyon cells.

Main Results:

Olfactory projection neurons exhibit orderly, predictable, and biased presynaptic output formation.
Kenyon cells receive spatially co-located but molecularly heterogeneous inputs.
Cell surface immunoglobulins are broadly depleted in Kenyon cells.

Conclusions:

Kenyon cells' depletion of cell surface immunoglobulins facilitates connections with molecularly heterogeneous partners.
This mechanism explains how developmentally identical Kenyon cells acquire diverse wiring identities.
Non-deterministic wiring algorithms may program such connectivity using minimal genomic information.