With more than 28.000 researchers in attendence, the Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) is the largest gathering of neuroscientists anywhere in the world. This year, it took place at the San Diego Conference Center in California and the Biopsychology lab was well represented with 12 poster presentations, covering diverse topics ranging from optogenetics in pigeons to the epigentics of handedness development in humans. The 4 hour poster presentations were well received by the worldwide neuroscientific community and lead to many fruitful discussions about the cutting edge research performed in the Biopsychology lab.