Highlights from Neuroscience 2008 (BSP 50)

Episode 50 of the Brain Science Podcast is a change of pace from our usual format. In this episode I share a few highlights from this year's Neuroscience 2008, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, which just concluded in Washington, DC.

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Show Notes and Links:

Society for Neuroscience Public Outreach Efforts:

• Brain Awareness Week: co-sponsored with the Dana Alliance


• Neuroscience Core Concepts: key ideas that everyone should know

Scientists Featured in this Episode:

• Eve Marder (Brandeis University)-current president of SfN


• Tom Carew (UC-Irvine)-incoming president of SfN


• Michael Bate (Cambridge University): his talk about the study of the development of movement in fruit flies is featured in this episode

References:

• The development of motor coordination in Drosophila embryos by Sarah Crisp, Jan Felix Evers, André Fiala and Michael Bate; Development 135, 3707-3717 (2008)

Announcements:

• Check out the new podcasts at sciencepodcasters.org.


• Books and Ideas #23: Interview with Nobel physicist, Dr. Frank Wilczek

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