Spent what turned out to be a really exciting and invigorating two days at NIH mingling with other "innovative" scientists.
The NIH director gave a very interesting speech outlining what he thought the future of science would be and the best way to move forward, although he didn't mention that he was going to step down as the director until this morning in an e-mail.
Heard a lot of very interesting talks including one on limiting the cognitive problems associated with seizure disorders (had a good talk with the speaker Frances Jensen afterwards), one on the underlying causes in the surge of autism cases (not vaccines, partly looks to be the older age of parents at time of conception), using light to control mouse movements, and many others, plus had good talks with most of the others.
After the symposium, I met up with NG and we had a nice Thai dinner and he gave me a ride to the airport. That was great and next year I will be sure to set aside time to be able to go up to Pennsylvania.
