Ken Hayworth: Connectomics is Revolutionizing Neuroscience - Could We Scan a Full Mouse Brain Connectome in 10 Years?
In "2030: Beyond the Film" Director Johnny Boston discusses the futurist FM-2030, the Coronavirus Pandemic, and a range of urgent issues in the medical, philosophical, longevity & futurist space with leading voices.
In this episode, Boston talks with Neuroscientist Ken Hayworth about a range of topics, including brain preservation research, the Brain Preservation Foundation, recent advances and proposals in the field of Connectomics, and why Hayworth believes mainstream scientists are reluctant to embrace ideas around brain preservation as a end-of-life hospital option.
About Ken Hayworth (via the Brain Preservation Foundation):
Kenneth Hayworth, President and Co-Founder of the Brain Preservation Foundation, is currently a Senior Scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus (JFRC) in Ashburn, Virginia. JFRC is perhaps the leading research institution in the field of connectomics in the United States. At JFRC, Hayworth is currently researching ways to extend Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIBSEM) imaging of brain tissue to encompass much larger volumes than are currently possible. For an overview of this work see his recent review paper and online presentation. Prior to moving to JFRC, Hayworth was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University. Hayworth is co-inventor of the Tape-to-SEM process for high-throughput volume imaging of neural circuits at the nanometer scale and he designed and built several automated machines to implement this process. Hayworth received a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California for research into how the human visual system encodes spatial relations among objects. Hayworth is a vocal advocate for brain preservation and mind uploading and a co-founder of the Brain Preservation Foundation which calls for the implementation of an emergency glutaraldehyde perfusion procedure in hospitals, and for the development of a whole brain embedding procedure which can demonstrate perfect ultrastructure preservation across an entire human brain.
About the Brain Preservation Foundation:
BPF’s institutional mission is to promote validated scientific research and technical services development in the field of whole brain preservation for long-term static storage.
We seek to advance this mission through outreach to appropriate scientific communities, online activities, presentations and articles, directed research grants, challenge prizes, and other methods to explore the scientific hypothesis of whether a reliable medical procedure exists that is capable of preserving the neural circuitry of the human brain at nanometer scale, whether such a procedure is sufficient to preserve personal memories and identity in the opinion of a minority consensus of neuroscientists, and whether existing and historical trends in scientific and technical development allow us to make a reasonable case that these preserved memories and identity may be affordably and sustainably revived at a future date.
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About 2030 the film:
Johnny Boston was 10 years old when he first met FM-2030, a futurist who intended to live forever. But in 2000, after his body ceased to function, FM was cryonically preserved. 16 years later, an unexpected call places FM's future in Johnny's hands.
Directed By: Johnny Boston
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