{"id":235978,"date":"2026-04-27T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/bing-brunton-on-connecting-the-connectome-to-the-body-mindscape-352"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:03:27","slug":"bing-brunton-on-connecting-the-connectome-to-the-body-mindscape-352","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/bing-brunton-on-connecting-the-connectome-to-the-body-mindscape-352","title":{"rendered":"Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body | Mindscape 352"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YsNcg8cc2xA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Patreon: \/ seanmcarroll<br \/> Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/.\">https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/.<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The connectome is the wiring diagram of a brain, a big matrix that tells us what neurons talk to what other neurons. Understanding it is an important step to understanding how brains work, but a long way from the final answer. A big next step is understanding how neuronal circuits connect to and guide bodily behavior. Very recent work on mapping the fruit-fly connectome has brought us closer to that goal. I talk with neuroscientist Bing Brunton about the connectome, how we can study it to understand bodily motion in flies and other creatures, and where it\u2019s all taking us.<\/p>\n<p>Bing Wen Brunton received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Princeton University\u2026 She is currently a Professor of Biology and the Richard &amp; Joan Komen University Chair at the University of Washington, with affiliations at the eScience Institute for Data Science, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science &amp; Engineering, and the Department of Applied Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Mindscape Podcast playlist: \u2022 Mindscape Podcast<br \/> Sean Carroll channel: \/ seancarroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patreon: \/ seanmcarroll Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/.\u2026 The connectome is the wiring diagram of a brain, a big matrix that tells us what neurons talk to what other neurons. Understanding it is an important step to understanding how brains work, but a long way from the final answer. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}