SfN: Let the Games Begin!

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. And remember to check in next Thursday for a very special issue of The Synapse that will summarize all the convention related goodness.

Jake

UPDATED: Incidentally, if you are going to SfN and you read this blog, email me. I would love to meet people there -- particularly at the Neuroscience Official Superswanky Sponsored Socials or NOSSSs.

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