SfN Meetup 2025

SfN Connectome & Memory Decoding Meetup (17 Nov)

Date & Time: Monday, November 17, 7–10 p.m.

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Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront: Cobalt 500
Sponsor Category: University/Non-Profit
Sponsored By: Aspirational Neuroscience

The Aspirational Neuroscience community is a non-profit promoting attempts to decode memories from static brain ultrastructure. 

We would like to invite you to a reception we are running at SfN on Mon 17 Nov, 7-10 PM, which will entail:

• Food provided (and drinks available)
• A panel discussion on “what would it take to decode a non-trivial memory from a connectome?”, comprised of the following experimental and theoretical connectomics researchers:
  • Michał Januszewski
    • Research scientist (connectomics) with Google Research, automated neural tracing expert
  • Sven Dorkenwald
    • Research fellow at the Allen Institute, first-author on first full Drosophila connectome paper
  • Helene Schmidt
    • Group leader at Ernst Strungmann Institute, hippocampus connectome & EM expert
  • Andrew Payne
    • Founder of E11 Bio, expansion microscopy & viral tracing expert 
  • Sanchari Ghosh
    • 2023 winner of an Aspirational Neuroscience prize for Ghosh et al (2021), behavioural neuroscience expert
  • Randal Koene
    • Founder of the Carboncopies Foundation, computational neuroscientist dedicated to the problem of brain emulation.

Moderated by Paul Middlebrooks, host of the Brain Inspired podcast

• A (brief!) awards ceremony honoring recent relevant experiments
• Networking time. 

If you’ll be at SfN and this interest you, please:

• RSVP for the event
  • This takes less than one minute and really helps us with catering!
• Share the event with others (all are welcome!)

Lastly, if this topic interest you, consider signing up for our online journal club.

Key information:

• Monday, November 17
• 7–10 p.m.
• Hilton San Diego Bayfront: Cobalt 500
• Food provided (drinks available)

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