The Grass Foundation

Visit the GF booth at SfN, Sun –Wed, and attend the Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture: Oxygen and the Pressure to Sleep — Gero Miesenböck!

The application for summer 2025 Grass Fellowships is now live at grassfoundation.org/fellowship-ove…! Applications are due November 15. Please share with promising early-career neuroscientists. The Fellowship provides 14 weeks of sponsored research support at @MBLScience in Woods Hole, MA.

@neuroethology @TessaMontague @ZYanWang 2023 Grass fellow Yan Wang gave a great talk at ICN

2017 fellowship keeps on giving

mdpi.com/2840286 another great Grass lab paper from Kristina Lippmann

@DrNancyPadilla @SciReports @UFNeuroscience @JocelynASP @erika_wangia Great paper from 2021 Grass Rising star!

🎺The first paper from the Padilla-Coreano Lab is out in @SciReports! In our systematic review & meta-analysis, we find interesting patterns & important gaps from the last 20 years of rodent social memory research. Read it here 🔗⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4159…

It was fun being interviewed for this @NatGeo piece by @SofiQuaglia about all the wild ways cephalopods use dynamic color change! 🐙🦑🌈 nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

So happy for @DrNancyPadilla to have such exciting science and the sweetest baby🥰

The MBL is proud to announce the eight early-career scientists funded by the @grassfoundation who will join the Grass Lab this year as fellows to undertake independent research projects in neuroscience. 🧠 Learn more: mbl.edu/news/welcome-2…

@BrianMSweis @adredish @SinaiBrain @amber_did @UMNeurosci @IcahnMountSinai @MountSinaiPsych Congratulations to Brian Sweis, 2019 Lindsley prize winner

Such a treat having @adredish visit as the @SinaiBrain 🧠 neuroscience seminar series speaker! One of my former PhD advisors checking out some of my new lab space I’m still unboxing📦📦! Once a mentor, always a mentor, with @amber_did @UMNeurosci @IcahnMountSinai @MountSinaiPsych

Congratulations to Dr. Maria Victoria Moya @MVickyMoya, winner of the 2024 Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award! This award, created in 2020, recognizes postdoctoral scientists from groups underrepresented in neuroscience. For more info, visit grassfoundation.org/henry-grass-md…

@Dr_AlexSchnell great news for former Grass fellows!

So excited to be part of this team!

mbl.edu/news/obituarie… Grass fellow, 1958, co-founder with John Dowling of the Neurobiology course

🌱We are thrilled to announce the first Kavli Exploration Awards in Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems! Three projects will pursue novel investigations into how nervous systems may enable organisms to adapt to environmental challenges kavlifoundation.org/news/internati… #KavliNeuro

Check out the shirt! Shout out to #Neural Systems & #Behavior @NSB_MBL to get to interact with amazing students, colleagues and strengthen our #synapses🧠🦞⭕️ @Grass_Fellows @grassfoundation @MblNeuro @MBLScience representing @uarizona @uarizonahsi @UArizonaNSCS #Neuroscience

Academy Members Receive Nation’s Highest Honors in Science and Engineering nationalacademies.org/news/2023/10/a… via @theNASEM Former trustee Eve Marder receives National Medal of Science

My favorite conference of the year is @SACNAS #NDiSTEM2023! Excited to meet students interested in grad studies @UCDavis_Neuro @PTXatUCD and @BMCDB. Also representing @grassfoundation @MBLScience on panel 'Broadening Access to Neuroscience' today (Wed) at 1:45pm - Rm 105-106.

@FrontYoungMinds @NobelPrize Papers include a paper on octopus and cuttlefish intelligence from former Grass fellow, Alex Schnell!

Five new articles written by five @NobelPrize winners. 🎉 Discover our new collection of exceptional scientific articles written for and reviewed by kids from Martin Chalfie, Ada Yonath, David Gross, Randy Schekman, and Eric Betzig. ⬇️ #NobelPrize