The 40th Society for Neuroscience Meeting was held this week in San Diego.  Among the more than 31,000 attendees were numerous present and past members of the Brandeis Neuroscience community. Attending this meeting is scientifically rewarding and accompanied by reunions with undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc alumni, now working around the world.

Marder lab postdocs: from the left, Dr. Mike Nusbaum, Professor, U. Pennsylvania Medical School; Dr. Lingjun Li, Assoc. Professor of Chemistry, U. Wisconsin; Dr. Farzan Nadim, Professor, Rutgers and NJIT; Dr. Eve Marder, Professor, Brandeis ; Dr. Dirk Bucher, Asst. Professor, Whitney Laboratory, U. Florida; Dr. Astrid Prinz, Assoc. Professor, Emory; Dr. Jorge Golowasch, Professor, Rutgers and NJIT; Dr. Patsy Dickinson (sabbatical visitor at Brandeis), Professor, Bowdoin College.

Brandeis undergraduate Ryan Maloney, ’11, presenting his poster to ex-Brandeis postdocs Dr. John Birmingham, Assoc. Professor, Santa Clara U., and Dirk Bucher.

Brandeis undergraduate Toly Rinberg, ’11; Alex Williams, Bowdoin College; and Dr. Michael Oshinsky ’92, Professor, Thomas Jefferson Medical School.

Dr. Mike Nusbaum and Dr. Jim Weimann (Brandeis PhD, ’92) remembering old times.

Also sighted were: Dr. Andy Christie, PhD ’94 now faculty, Mount Desert Island Marine Labs; Dr. Cyrus Billimoria, PhD, ’05, now Research Faculty Boston U.; Dr. Stefan Pulver, Ph.D. ’09 now postdoc Cambridge U. (UK), Dr. Aryn Gittis (class of ’01), PhD UCSD, now postdoc at Stanford, Dr. Tepring Piquado, Ph.D. ’10, now at UC Irvine, Dr. Raj Stewart, Ph.D ’08, now at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Mark Miller, PhD ’08, now postdoc at UCSF. Other former Brandeis postdocs included Dr. Alfredo Fontanini from the Katz lab and Dr. Arianna Maffei from the Turrgiano lab, now both Asst. Professors at Stony Brook.