Society for Neuroscience 2012

So this post was sitting in my draft folder for awhile, and I never realized I haven’t published it. It’s long overdue so here is a summary of my trip to New Orleans the SfN conference:

SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE (SfN) 2012

I woke up to go to to the airport on Saturday October 13th and expected to land in New Orleans around 3PM. However, as I was trying to get lunch between my connecting flight in Texas, I missed my flight to New Orleans and I had to wait for around two hours before they could schedule my to the next flight. That sucked to start off the conference in such a way, however I eventually got to New Orleans and when I got out of the airport, it was hot. I took a shuttle to the conference and the bus driver was nice enough to give us a little tour and talk about some of the history behind New Orleans, and then I was dropped off at my hotel.

Once I’ve arrived at the hotel, I texted my lab mate Jess to see where she was and we met up and then I walked out with her and her fellow awardees to go around and explore New Orleans. No science yet, but we went around and explored the city walking to Bourbon Street, walked by Bubba GUmp Shrimp and then headed to a bar around the French Quarter and went into a bar to listen to some nice jazz and music and have a general good time (this is also coming from someone who doesn’t drink). The night ended up with me being pretty exhausted from the flight, walking, and excitement in the air. I crashed.

My new friends who hung out with Jess and me for the rest of SfN. We all talked about our research projects and just how general lab life is as an undergraduate student.

When I woke up, Sunday is all about science…mostly. Jess and I headed to the huge conference center and saw all that was going on, we attended talks with Professor Webster and then we had down time which Jess and I took to attending all the booths at SfN and in hopes getting all the free stuff we could. After that we later went around for lunch and walked to the Superdome and back. Then the day ends with Jess and I presenting our research at SfN’s undergraduate poster session. Later that night we all went out and around again eating at places around the French Quarter and having beignets at Cafe Du Monde (as shown below)

Dinner at Huck Finns after all that science

Cafe Du Monde

The following day, Monday, was our last day and Jess and I went to our final rounds of booths and I got to play the piano and wore these gloves that showed what I was playing and it was pretty cool. Jess and I also went to some final talks and poster sessions where we tried to find a poster that seemed the most fitting and one where we’d understand the easiest. We then had lunch with our professor and then flew back. I was on a separate flight, and after that it was just sleep before classes the next day.

The trip to New Orleans was amazing and probably one of the best experiences I’ve had hear so far. I’m really thankful to my professor for letting me do research with her and the summer program for giving me funding and allowing me to go. I’ve met so many cool people and talked about really interesting neuroscience while exploring the streets of New Orleans. It was all really fun and I hope to go again one day. This concludes my trip and I hope you enjoyed it!

P.S Pictures were mostly taken on Jess’s camera or mine and they may or may not be in chronological order.

Best,

Dan

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