This year, for the first time in a while, I’ll not be at the Society for Neuroscience meeting (which starts tomorrow in Atlanta). This is a very large scientific meeting (typically roughly 25,000 folks register) and for my field of neuroscience, it’s really the only place where everybody in brain sciences gets together in one venue.
And it’s not just the scientific sessions–I’ve always also enjoyed tremendously the opportunity to get together with colleagues and friends who are at other institutions, but with whom ties are still very strong.
So why I am staying home at Krasnow?
Fundamentally, the reason is that with the addition of our expansion space, multiple on-going faculty searches, and the nearness of the operational starting-line for our brain imaging center, there’s just too many Krasnow-specific operational details that require close attention.
In the meantime I wish all of my colleagues an excellent meeting and I’m very much looking forward to next year in San Diego.
Discoverers and Discoveries 