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Behind the scenes of a brain-mapping moon shot : Nature News & Comment

Ron Kalil, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, didn?t expect to see his son among the 28,500 attendees at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans last October. And he wondered why Tom Kalil, deputy director for policy at the White House?s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), was accompanied by Miyoung Chun, vice-president of science programmes at the Kavli Foundation in Oxnard, California.