{"id":47,"date":"2003-01-23T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=47"},"modified":"2003-01-23T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2003-01-23T17:01:01","slug":"lunch-with-tom-jessell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2003\/01\/23\/lunch-with-tom-jessell\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Tom Jessell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had lunch with and attended a talk by <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hhmi.org\/research\/investigators\/jessell.html\">Thomas Jessell<\/A> today.  My fellow neuroscience enthusiasts may know him as one of the authors, along with Eric Kandel and James Schwartz, of the bible of our field, &#8220;Principles of Neural Science&#8221;.  He was quite an eloquent speaker and his research is pretty interesting.  He&#8217;s currently at Columbia Med, using simple monosynaptic motor circuits as a model to study axon guidance and specificity.  Unfortunately, the lecture hall was so full that I had to stand in the AV booth of the med school amphitheater through the entire lecture!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had lunch with and attended a talk by Thomas Jessell today. My fellow neuroscience enthusiasts may know him as one of the authors, along with Eric Kandel and James Schwartz, of the bible of our field, &#8220;Principles of Neural Science&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2003\/01\/23\/lunch-with-tom-jessell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}