Meeting Reports: SfN 2023 Matt Gergues Thesis Report

Summary

From November 11th to the 15th, 2023, Washington D.C., USA, hosted the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference, one of the largest international neuroscience meetings with over 20,000 participants in attendance, including researchers, clinicians, vendors, and many others. There was plenty to see among the various symposia, special lectures, and, of course, the expansive plethora of posters that invited visitors to soak up as much information as possible. Vendors and exhibitors showed off some of the newest tools for research, from virtual reality and electroencephalogram recordings, to 2-photon microendoscopes and fancy sequencers. The annual meeting garners lots of attention from visitors of every career stage, from early-career investigator to tenured faculty, from industry scientists to science officers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. There were also plenty of opportunities to engage in workshops for learning different technologies, professional development and networking, and grant writing, in addition to the social events after the main conference sessions on each day. With all this in mind, it is very easy to be overwhelmed with so many choices of what to attend, see and do: one becomes curious as to how one makes the decision to see a prominent scientist’s work, to meet a trainee at a poster for the latest research update, or to play with and explore new tools and techniques. Everyone can find something to enjoy at the conference.

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