A community of practice for the neuroscience of memory

The Aspirational Neuroscience (AN) community is currently run by neuroscientist Kenneth Hayworth (Janelia Research scientist and President of the Brain Preservation Foundation), along with a handful of other neuroscientists. If you are a student or professional neuroscientist, other scientist, or technical practitioner interested in these topics, please consider contacting us or joining our Journal Club.

The Brain Preservation Foundation’s mission is to investigate both the technical viability and value of human brain preservation for long-term static storage. The AN community evolved out of the BPF’s desire to create an independent Community of Practice and set of Incentive Prizes, specifically for neuroscientists and other scientists to share insights and research ideas on neural memory encoding. Graduate students and postdocs are a particular recruiting focus of our community.

To restate: the AN community is separate and distinct from the BPF community. AN’s purpose and membership are necessarily more specific and restricted; BPF’s are more general and speculative in nature. AN community members may or may not have any interest in the BPF’s mission, and each is independent of the other in purpose and practice. We welcome scientists to participate in either or both communities, as their interests dictate.