Danny and Stemmy go to Boston for SCIENCE!!!!, Day 5

*Sigh*, so it's come time for Stemmy and I to wrap up our amazing trip to Boston for the ISSCR conference.  It was a great time, we had a blast, learned a ton, got a ton, and even made some contacts for potential post-docs.  However, through all that, I'm missing my girls and am ready to go back to good old SA.

Dr. Chambers from Edinburgh.  Yes, I took his picture because he has a Scottish accent.  I don't care that you can't tell since it's a picture.  That's him and he talks awesome.

For lunch, instead of just having  lunch at a round table as I did on Thursday (or buy overpriced sausage as yesterday) there was the so-called 'career panel', a group of researchers from various backgrounds in science doing a Q&A.  Though there were a lot more A's than Q's.  In other words, they spoke a great deal and answered very few questions.  On top of that, they did not answer my question :( .  Sad times, but free lunch.

Panel introductions; the phone number was for texting questions via Google voice.  Pretty cool.

Meat spice from a Kansas City, MO based lab cabinet company.  Yes, it's sad that it isn't Texas, but the representative grew up in SA, so I guess that's something.

Final plenary session was pretty awesome; all about making tissues and organs from stem cells.  A lot of matrix and scaffold based tissue growing stuff.  Really cool.  Very exciting.

The final talk; the only one titles as a "Keynote" by Eric Lander, one of the founders of the Whitehead institute at MIT, an integral part of the Human Genome Project.

And thus ends a great conference and a wonderful trip.  There was a little 'social reception' at the end of the talks that wasn't very interesting.  Similar to the Junior Social Night on Wednesday, but not as fun because there were the full professors.  So we headed back to the hotel with our swag and to get some noms.  Yeeeaaaaaa.

Once again, Stemmy insists on trying to eat all the pizza.  Ordered from a local place rather than a chain, really good.

Soooooooooo, this being the last day of the conference, exhibitors were anxious to get rid of their various stuff.  Long story short, I have 7 ISSCR tote bags.  Should've gotten more...... good for groceries.  So, anyone back at home was a bag?  I've got a couple extras.

Thus ends the conference, our trip, and my diary thereof.  I hope that it was an enjoyable little aside from your days to read my random ramblings.  Until next time, I'm out!