predecessor cells

I must admit all the skull stripping and scripting can detract from some interesting neuroscience news.  Luckily I happened upon the Nature Neuroscience page while burning the midnight oil.  I’m unsure if it’s just because I hang around in a neuroimaging lab/MR engineering group, but I rarely hear recent news from the cellular side of neuroscience.  Gasp!  Well, almost.  It was like reading a book and starting to get hints of the plot.  Somebody pinch me and tell me something that makes this news less shocking to me. 

Link to the Kavli Research Institute for Neuroscience at Yale.

short courses + i need coffee

As I while the hours away at this desk I will simply pass on a link.  The Society for Neuroscience has two short courses: "Vectors and RNA Interference for Neuroscience Applications" and "The Genetics of Cognitive Neuroscience Phenotypes".  They look like collection of review articles from some pre-eminent neuroscientists, although I'm unsure how coherent the entire course will be.  Meh.  More coffee.