- A participant reported that new brain-mapping techniques have accelerated expected timelines, with a full primate brain connectome now projected to be completed by the early 2030s.  
- Discussion of university rocketry-club electronics: custom PCBs were designed by one participant and two student mentees, highlighting open-source hardware development in an academic setting.  
- A technical question was raised about sequencing scope: whether exome sequencing covers promoter regions and whether any commercial offering sequences both protein-coding regions and their promoters without requiring whole-genome sequencing.  
- The community floated the idea of holding periodic video calls to maintain deeper technical collaboration, with an open invitation for anyone to schedule the next session.