Forrest Collman

About

Forrest Collman is an American neuroscientist and informatics expert best known as Associate Director of Informatics at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, where he advances large-scale connectomics through electron microscopy datasets and tools for mapping neural circuits at synaptic resolution. A Princeton University alumnus with a bachelor's in physics and computer science and a PhD in molecular biology (working with David Tank on two-photon imaging and virtual reality for mice), he completed postdoctoral research at Stanford with Stephen Smith on array tomography before joining the Allen Institute. Collman's work has contributed to landmark projects like the MICrONS initiative, producing detailed wiring diagrams of mouse visual cortex to inform brain function, cell types, and computational models, with over 6,000 scholarly citations.