This summer, I spent two weeks in Suzhou, China, attending the Modern Techniques in Neuroscience course at Cold Spring Harbor Asia. Two weeks sounds short, but somehow it felt like a lot happened—long days of lectures and experiments, many new techniques, lots of conversations, and, of course, exploring a little bit of China in between. One of my favorite parts was getting to learn directly from scientists whose work I had previously encountered through papers. Yulong Li and
