[Neuropostdocs] various items

[Sarah London]

Hi everyone,

There are several things coming up in the near future:

1.  Brain Awareness Day is THIS Sunday, the 23rd.  The booth we are in 
charge of is basically a comparative neuroanatomy booth.  We have brains 
from a variety of animals (including human thanks to Eve Gallman) a couple 
of scopes, a brain/animal cute quiz, etc.  We really need some volunteers 
to help with the booth.  If I could get two people to volunteer for the 1-3 
pm slot and two for the 3-5pm slot, we would be set.  Please don't make me 
beg- it is embarrassing for everyone.

2.  As Ricardo's email said, the votes are in and Steve Goldman is our top 
choice.  We will default to go in the order of vote ranks to invite (go 
democracy!), but it occurred to Ricardo and I that neither of us had heard 
Steve speak before and we had had some disappointing speakers in the 
past.  I would like to start the invitation process ASAP, but if anyone 
knows anything about the top 4 vote-getters as speakers (good/bad 
presentation, jerky, unreliable, etc), please give me a heads up.  We all 
know good scientists are not always good speaker choices...

3.  Breakfast.  Next Tuesday. April 24. The speaker is Yimin Zou who 
studies developmental axon guidance 
(<http://neurobiology.bsd.uchicago.edu/faculty/zou.htm>http://neurobiology.bsd.uchicago.edu/faculty/zou.htm). 
This week was fun- please let me know if you can make it next week.  Same 
place (Courier Cafe) and as far as I know, we are back to our regular time 
(8-9am).

4.  Money money mon-ney.  SfN has postdoctoral fellowships for travel to 
the meeting.  Last year Christian got this dough.  We should try to do this 
again.  Applications go through our local chapter; I have emailed the head 
(Richard Kollmar) to see when they need the applications- the deadline for 
the chapter to submit nominees is May 31 so it will be before then.  You 
can check out the website: <http://www.sfn.org/ptta>www.sfn.org/ptta and I 
will let you know when I get more information, too.

And done.

Thanks!
Sarah


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