All day, I wandered among the posters whenever I could, and indeed learnt some cool stuff about the differential processing of external and self-generated vestibular systems, a topic very dear to my heart! However, I’d like to tell you about the panel I attended over lunch, because this issue is important: ‘Proactive strategies to increase… Read More Tuesday highlights
From meandering among the thousands of posters on display, I will share some impressions of things that I liked and things I disliked. These will be very related to a personal Dos and Don’ts for posters, though I promise that these points are really based on what I saw here, and are not my generic… Read More Poster impressions
Monday started for me with the lecture on the navigation systems underlying the migration of monarch butterflies by Steven Reppert. The topic was way cool and very much along the lines of neuroethological studies that I love: for instance, they painted one antenna of the butterflies black to prevent entrainment of its clock to daylight, but left the… Read More Monday at SfN
Sunday afternoon was packed with cool stuff – of course all going on at the same time! I split my time such that I started looking at some vestibular posters, but then went to a mini-symposium on Behavioral diversity in individuals: genetiv and circuit mechanisms. I heard three talks, and the one I liked best… Read More Sunday highlights
I very much enjoyed last night’s presidential lecutre. I’ll start with the non-content-related reasons: Bargmann’s delivery had a nice but not overwhelming pace, and the same can be said for her slides: thankfully no information overload, but helpful pointers supporting what she said. She very clearly acknowledged the people inside (and outside) her lab who… Read More Cori Bargmann’s presidential lecture
My SfN experience this year started by being thoroughly confused – it took me way too long to find the room in which the professional development workshop on careers away from the bench had already started. I blame it on bad signposting… The session itself included some personal anectodes on the importance of networking, honest answers about salaries,… Read More Arriving and delving in
Made it safely to Chicago after a 9h flight! The time was nicely divided between watching movies, watching some ‘classes’ for the online computer science course I am doing, and chatting to my neighbour, who is from the same grad school. Even before boarding, the usual poster roll spotting started, along the lines of ‘that… Read More Getting there
Finally, I sent off the poster to be printed – so slowly but surely I feel ready for the SfN! In addition to the poster, I also got some business cards printed, so I can give away something when standing in front of the poster. Come by if you want one 😉 Even more exciting is… Read More Preparing for the SfN