With 32,000+ neurogeek attendees, the Society's annual meeting is the world's largest and most influential yearly gathering of neuroscientists. It's also the most overwhelming 5 days of socializing, networking, learning, drinking, questioning, debating, sitting, standing and walking.
Plane and Coastal Range (over LA):
We arrived a day early to settle into our lovely hotel room (gulp)...
...and to take in some sights. San Diego's museums are clustered in Balboa Park. Here us McAllister lab folk (Paula, Leigh, Vlasta, Stef) are about to go into the Natural History Museum to where we checked out the exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
We also had the opportunity to check out the famous SD Zoo, which Stef and I ran through in under three hours just before the meeting started on Saturday.SD Zoo's sleeping koala:
Sleeping panda:
Sleeping (?) hummingbird:
For those of you dying to have a glimpse of a science meeting, this is approximately 1/10 the floor area of the poster sessions, then there are the seminar rooms which double the floor space of the meeting:
Importantly, the meeting provided a much needed gathering place for us to get together with old friends and meet new ones:Leigh and Cheng-Hang:
Brown alum and McAllister labfolk:
Stef and Cheng-Hang:
C-H, Paula, and Stef at Hooters (which we did not eat at, despite Cheng-Hang's urging!):
2 comments:
I haven't been to Balboa Park in forever! But it's nice, huh? We used to go there a lot, to plays, to museums, to walk around, to climb trees... And I'm very impressed you breezed through the zoo in 3 hours! In my memory it is a huuuggge place. But the koala bears the best (even if they are usually sleeping)!
It looks exhausting just from the pictures! Fun and intellectually and socially stimulating too, though.
No pictures from the big Brown blowout?
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