About this episode

This episode provides a sneak peek into the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience featuring discussions with leading experts in the field.

Soon the annual meeting for the Society for Neuroscience starts where 20,000 attendees will be talking all about their work on the brain. This is a sneak peek of that meeting. It's with Dr. John Morrison from the University of California at Davis and Dr. Emilie Marcus from UCLA, who is also the incoming SfN Chair of the public education and communication committee of the Society for Neuroscience. Helping me ask questions are also Dr. Shari Wiseman, chief editor of Nature Neuroscience, Dr. Elisa Floridiaa from Nature Communications and Tanya Lewis from Scientific American.

People in this episode

Host: Vivien Marx

Guests: Dr. John Morrison, Dr. Emilie Marcus

Topics covered

• neuroscience
• annual meeting
• brain research
• public education
• communication

Keywords

• Society for Neuroscience
• neuroscience meeting
• brain research
• public education
• communication committee

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of California at Davis, UCLA, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Scientific American, Society for Neuroscience

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