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jake-head-shot.jpgJake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.

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Society for Neuroscience 2006:

The Synapse: Special Neuroscience Edition

Category: Society for Neuroscience 2006

This Synapse features a special Society for Neuroscience line-up with Shelley, Evil Monkey, Nick the Neurocontrarian, and myself attending. I arrived and faced a moral quandry of whether to drag my ass out of bed to see stuff. Having decided...

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SfN: Neurogenesis and Gliogenesis Slide Session

Category: Society for Neuroscience 2006

If you have never been to Neuroscience, one of the things they do is have slide sessions. These sessions are sort of like short talks -- a slide of data or two presented by many people. It is sort of...

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SfN: Aaaah!!! Too much science

Category: Poems

My head hurts. I am sitting in a crappy slide session of limited personal relevance, trying vainly to find something fascinating in the injection of morpholino oligos into Xenopus. Two complete yo-yos are talking really loudly behind me. Let's have...

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SfN: (R)evolution in Scientific Publishing: How will it Affect You?

Category: Society for Neuroscience 2006

I attended a panel discussion chaired by David van Essen entitled (R)evolution in Scientific Publishing: How will it Affect You? It was focused on what the implications of the Open Access movement in science are, and what scientists should expect...

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SfN: Workshop on "Resources for Teaching Neuroscience"

Category: Society for Neuroscience 2006

I TA'd a bunch in college and I am currently the TA for the medical school Neurology course, so I am always looking for good ways to make teaching better. However, the moderator made a good point during the workshop...

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SfN: A little plug

Category: Society for Neuroscience 2006

Last night, we also met Nick from Neurocontrarian. He is also liveblogging the proceedings, and maybe doing some audio interviews. Check out his site for his coverage....

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SfN: Posters as far as the eye can see

Category: Society for Neuroscience 2006

There are a bagillion people here -- a bagillion. No other word appropriately conveys how many neuroscientists are in this building. That being the case and there being so many exhibits and lectures and craziness going on absolutely simultaneously, it...

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SfN: Travel Log

Category: Society for Neuroscience 2006

I got here late night after a plane flight filled with people accidentally clubbing each other with long cyclinders filled with posters. The baggage checkers probably thought we were a horde of terrorists. "Sir, what is in that long skinny...

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SfN: Let the Games Begin!

Category: Society for Neuroscience 2006

Hi everyone, For the next 5 days, I -- like fellow Sciencebloggers Shelley and Evil Monkey -- will be blogging up a storm from the Society for Neuroscience convention in Atlanta. Check in regularly for updates as to the proceedings....

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