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Sep 11, 2009

Episode 61 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Allan Jones, PhD, Chief Science Officer for the Allen Institute for Brain Research in Seattle, Washington. The Allen Institute is an independent non-profit medical research organization that is best know for its mapping of the mouse brain. Its current projects include creating a map of the human brain which will show what genes are active at any given location in the adult human brain. In this interview we discuss these projects, their implications for neuroscience research, and the unique career challenges of working in the non-profit biotech industry.

Detailed show notes, links, and a full episode transcript are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

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