The International Brain Laboratory (IBL) is a collaborative research group that aims to develop the first global model of decision making in mice.
[1][2] In its first phase, IBL members are recording 100,000's of neurons across virtually all brain structures in mice performing the very same decision.
The first major scientific milestones for the project are the development of an open source data architecture for large scale neuroscience collaboration[5] and the replication of the behavior across all experimental labs.
These scientists argued in a paper published the same year[8] that, given the complexity of the questions in neuroscience and the scale of the technical challenge, it seems unlikely that the research performed by individual labs will be sufficient to understand how the brain works.
Nick Steinmetz (University of Washington) joined in 2019, and Tatiana Engel (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) in 2020.