Postdoctoral researcher @isaacsiuwong.bsky.social in the @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de is 2026 Grass Fellow @grassfoundation.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social. 🎉 He will pursue his project “Dancing diatoms as a proto-neural model” at MBL for 14 weeks. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Two weeks left to apply for the Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award!
Do you know a rising star in neuroscience? Encourage them to apply!
DEADLINE EXTENDED! ⏰
Apply to Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Success (SPINES) by March 20.
🔗More info here: https://go.mbl.edu/SPINES
Three weeks left to apply for the Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award!
Go for it!
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Welcome to the 2026 Grass Fellows! This year marks the 75th anniversary of the program. @mblscience.bsky.social
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APPLY NOW for the *Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award,* recognizing outstanding postdoctoral neuroscientists from underrepresented groups in neuroscience who demonstrate excellence in research and a commitment to diversity.
Deadline: April 1
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A strong showing of #GrassFellows at this week's Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Research Conference!
Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!
APPLY NOW: 2026 Grass Fellowship. Support for investigator-designed, independent research projects by scientists early in their career. Deadline December 1, 2025
ONE WEEK UNTIL THE DEADLINE!
Spend the summer in the Grass Lab at the @mblscience.bsky.social in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, conducting your own original neuroscience research in a richly supportive shared environment.
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A photo of a booth at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, with a big banner that says The Grass Foundation and an enlarged photo of a bobtail squid.
Come see us at booth 3816 at #SfN25!
Grass Community Guide: SfN 2025 San Diego
See you at #SfN25! Catch up with Grass Fellows and activities supported by The Grass Foundation. The full Grass Community Guide is right here for you!
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The priority deadline for the 2026 Grass Fellowship is 2 weeks away!
Apply by October 15 for the opportunity to receive technical feedback on your proposal and make changes before the final December 1 deadline.
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Many thanks to Grass Laboratory Director Heather Rhodes for the photo.
A photo of a man at a conference table with a pitcher of margaritas in the middle, and a display screen showing a slide about Stephen Kuffler.
The neuroscience community has lost a dear friend and mentor. Ed Kravitz passed away on Sunday, September 21, 2025.
Here he is this past summer speaking with (and making margaritas for) the 2025 Grass Fellows, as he's done for more than two decades.
Rest in peace.
Apply now 2026 Grass Fellowship Priority Deadline: October 15, 2025 Final Deadline: December 1, 2025 GrassFoundation.org
Now accepting applications for the 2026 Grass Fellowship!
Do you have a great idea for a project you can do next summer in the Grass Lab at the @mblscience.bsky.social?
Get working on that proposal!
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Grass Fellows Symposium. Alex Chen, David Hildebrand, Zeeshan Banday, Sam Chakrabarti, Hannah Oberle, Christian Hoffmann, Kyra Schapiro, Alexandra Yarger
Want to hear some amazing science talks from Grass Fellows? Tune in to the 2025 Grass Fellows Symposium tomorrow morning!
Thursday, August 28. 9am-noon ET
Zoom Link:
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We are pleased to announce the 2025 Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Awardees, Christian Cazares @fleabrained.bsky.social and Eddy Albarran
@albarran.bsky.social!
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SfN and Grass Foundation logos. Fostering Authenticity and Cultural Awareness in Your Scientific Ecosystem. Wednesday, July 23, 11 a.m.–noon EDT. Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar, PhD, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus. Tracey Hermanstyne, PhD, WashU Medicine. Brian Dias, PhD, USC Kreck School of Medicine & Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Chanel Matney, PhD, UCSF Bioethics.
Each scientist brings a unique identity and cultural background into their professional space.
Join SfN and the @grassfoundation.bsky.social's upcoming webinar to learn how you can navigate these dynamics and create a more inclusive scientific community.
🔗: vist.ly/3y9i7
#NeuroSky
At @mblscience.bsky.social, Grass Lab Associate Director Oscar Arenas Sabogal is peering into ctenophores’ puzzling physiology to determine how their nervous system transforms sensations into behavior.
"The more we investigate, the weirder it gets."
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Excited to see what Schapiro discovers during her Kavli-Grass Fellowship!
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Zebra nerite snails have diagonal stripes painted across their shells. But sometimes, a dramatic change will pause and switch their shell pattern to something new. 🐌 Kyra Schapiro investigates how these shell patterns emerge in the Grass Lab.
Learn more: bit.ly/4llySJ7
2025 Kavli-Grass Fellow Kyra Schapiro is spending this summer in the Grass Lab (@grassfoundation.bsky.social) understanding how environmental factors shape shell patterning in Zebra nerite snails and how the nervous system might control this process.
Learn more here: bit.ly/4llySJ7
Huge thanks to Benj Plackett & the @nature.com journalism team for featuring our tardigrade 🧠🔬🧬 work! Means so much as an early-career researcher building community + tools (neural atlas, GCaMP strain, behavior) now based in @gaou-ak.bsky.social Lab @ IAB Tsuruoka 🇯🇵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Birds have a structure called the lumbosacral organ at the base of their spinal column, and we don't know yet what it does. But 2024 Grass Fellow Hannah Martin wanted to be among the first to investigate its neurons in detail.
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2025 Grass Fellows Zeeshan Banday - University of Chicago Mechanoelectrical transduction in jellyfish Sam Chakrabarti - Max Delbruck Center Pain sensation in sharks Alex Chen - Harvard University Ctenophore nerve net development David Hildebrand - The Rockefeller University Face recognition in paper wasps Chris Hoffmann - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Ocean acidification and behavior in sea slugs Hannah Oberle - University of Michigan Synaptic plasticity in mouse inferior colliculus Kyra Schapiro - Brandeis University Molluscan shell patterning Alex Yarger - Imperial College London Dragonfly flight control
It's going to be a great summer with this group!
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Please help us welcome the 2025 Grass Fellows! The Grass Fellowship program brings early-career investigators to the MBL to pursue a self-designed, independent research project in neuroscience.
Learn more here: bit.ly/3H57boR
📷 Credit: Scott Bennett
2025 Grass Fellows: Zeeshan Banday - University of Chicago Mechanoelectrical transduction in jellyfish Sam Chakrabarti - Max Delbruck Center Pain sensation in sharks Alex Chen - Harvard University Ctenophore nerve net development David Hildebrand - The Rockefeller University Face recognition in paper wasps Chris Hoffmann - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Ocean acidification and behavior in sea slugs Hannah Oberle - University of Michigan Synaptic plasticity in mouse inferior colliculus Kyra Schapiro - Brandeis University Molluscan shell patterning Alex Yarger - Imperial College London Dragonfly flight control
Looking for some good news today?
We have eight inspiring early-career scientists heading to @mblscience.bsky.social to spend the summer conducting research on topics ranging from pain sensation in sharks to ocean acidification and behavior in sea slugs.
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Please help us welcome to campus the students in our Frontiers in Reproduction Course! For the next 6 weeks, they will learn state-of-the-art methods and current concepts in reproductive biology.
Learn more here! bit.ly/43nKfK0
We will likely announce the awardees in July.
No apologies necessary! We are working on that and will have news soon!
