Brain CONNECTS - Bryant McGill

# Brain CONNECTS **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Type:** Neuroscience funding and mapping program **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Relationships - Brain CONNECTS is described as a [[wiki/National Institutes of Health|NIH]] follow-on route for scaling connectivity mapping beyond the [[wiki/MICrONS|MICrONS]] cortical volume. - It is related to the [[wiki/BRAIN Initiative|BRAIN Initiative]] but should retain its own program identity. - A scaling objective is not a completed whole-mouse-brain connectome.  This entry is routed through [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], and [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Additional Documented Relationships - [[wiki/Allen Institute Connectomics|Allen Institute Connectomics]] is associated with **Brain CONNECTS**. Scaling toward whole-mouse synaptic connectivity. - Allen Institute whole-mouse EM pipeline center. - Harvard high-throughput integrative mouse connectomics center.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **MICrONS: Function-Structure Registration at Mammalian Scale** provides the narrative context for **Brain CONNECTS**: As David Markowitz (IARPA Program Manager) stated: 'IARPA's moonshot investment in the MICrONS program has shattered previous technological limitations, creating the first platform to study the relationship between neural…  ## Research Edges  #### Master relationship graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Resolved aliases:** `NIH BRAIN CONNECTS` **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 352 — `goal` → [[wiki/Brain CONNECTS|whole-brain wiring diagrams across mouse, human, and non-human primate scales]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_DCC`. - **Edge 353 — `center_PI` → [[wiki/Jeff Lichtman|Jeff Lichtman]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_AWARDS`. Harvard high-throughput integrative mouse connectomics center. - **Edge 354 — `center_PI` → [[wiki/Forrest Collman|Forrest Collman]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_AWARDS`. Allen Institute whole-mouse EM pipeline center. - **Edge 355 — `center_PI` → [[wiki/Nuno Macarico da Costa|Nuno da Costa]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_AWARDS`. Allen Institute whole-mouse EM pipeline center. #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 351 — [[wiki/Allen Institute Connectomics|Allen Institute Connectomics]] `program` → this entry** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `ALLEN_CONNECT`, `BRAIN_CONNECTS_AWARDS`. Scaling toward whole-mouse synaptic connectivity. - **Edge 352 — [[wiki/Brain CONNECTS|NIH BRAIN CONNECTS]] `goal` → this entry** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_DCC`.