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Wednesday, July 1, from 11:00 to 12:00 EDT (1500 - 1600 GMT) scientist Timothy DeVoogd is hosting a webchat on scientific collaboration in North and South America.
Tim is a Jefferson Science Fellow here at the State Department. Like me, he’s a scientist who is taking a year away from the lab to work in the State Department. Also like me, Tim is a neuroscientist (he studies song birds, I study zebrafish).
Scientific collaboration leads to new insights. Such interactions also form lasting friendships (I’m still friendly with a scientist in Germany, we worked together in Los Angeles in 1999). This webcast will explore how to build such interactions among people in North and South America.

Why would a promising young scientist leave the lab to spend a year working for the United States government? Daniel Gorelick is here at the State Department trying to figure that out.