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Rudrarup Bhattacharjee from the Robinson Research Institute travelled to San Diego, California in November to attend the Neuroscience Conference. 

This is what Rudrarup had to say about their experience:

What was a highlight of the travel?

Two highlights:

1. Meeting the 2021 Nobel Laureate Prof Ardem Patapoutian and discussing with him the state of science and fundamental research funding in USA. Also, I got a chance to take a picture with him.
2. Attending such a huge meeting for the first time in my scientific career and get to know and interact with neuroscience researchers from all over the world. 

How will the experience support you and your research going forward?

Getting to know so many recent and unpublished studies gave me a great picture of how global Neuroscience firled is moving. Based on the experience, we can design better and more focused research questions which the field is demanding currently and enhance our contribution to the field. Also, I will share the global perspective I gained in meeting with my group on what are the burning topics around neuroscience and childhood diseases which may help strategize our future grant applications towards more favourable considerations.

What was the most exciting thing you learned/experienced as part of your travel?

The great variety of science going around the world with respect to neurobiology. Secondly, I learned a lot about the science in USA as well as many other countries like Germany, Canada and France. I learned how effective communication is a must for the scientific community and the value of getting insight in the state of your own research field. Most importantly, gaining feedback from some world leaders of Neuroscience in my own project was a big accomplishment in my view, which will enable me to make my research as well as the upcoming thesis a much refined and better one.

Please provide details on any researchers or collaborators of significance that you met at the conference and why they are important to your work?

I met Dr Michelle Monje from the Stanford Neuro-Oncology division. Her work on brain cancer and neuron interaction was quite exciting and has the potential to understand crossover. Between the neuro-onco axis. Understanding the regulation of brain cancer development through the perspective of neurobiology (more specifically neurons) is a fascinating area of research and the functional cross-talk between them has immense p