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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's time! You can now apply for the 2027 Grass Fellowship! Spend the summer in the Grass Lab at @mblscience.bsky.social conducting your own original neuroscience research in a richly supportive environment. ➡️ grassfoundation.org/apply-for-th...
Apply now: 2027 Grass Fellowship. Deadline December 1, 2026. Grassfoundation.org
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In two weeks we'll begin accepting applications for the 2027 cohort of Grass Fellows! The Grass Fellowship Program brings early-career investigators to @mblscience.bsky.social for 14 weeks to pursue a self-designed, independent research project in neuroscience. Get those proposals ready!
Apply FOR THE 2027 Grass Fellowship
ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
September 1, 2026
DEADLINE
December 1, 2026
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Whitney Stevens-Sostre, PhD Boricua @stevenssostre.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I am honored to receive the 2026 Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award from The Grass Foundation! 🌟 Immense gratitude to my mentors Dr. Hoon & Dr. Robertson, and the Trustees for investing in an inclusive scientific community. Excited for my future lab: bridging ion channels and vision!
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Daniel Cardozo Pinto @dcardozopinto.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Delighted to receive the Henry Grass Rising Star in Neuroscience Award! 🎉 A huge thank you to the Grass Foundation for their recognition and support
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Awardees: Daniel Cardozo Pinto, Maribel Patiño, and Whitney Stevens-Sostre! @dcardozopinto.bsky.social @maribel-patino.bsky.social @stevenssostre.bsky.social Learn more: grassfoundation.org/2026-henry-g...
2026 Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience:
Daniel Cardozo Pinto, Maribel Patiño, and Whitney Stevens-Sostre
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Welcome to the 75th cohort of Grass Fellows! To celebrate, we reached out to past Fellows to hear about how their experience shaped their career: Graeme Davis (1994), Barbara Ehrlich (1980), and Dame Frances Ashcroft (1978). Find out what the Fellowship meant to them! www.mbl.edu/news/75-year...
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75 Years of Grass Fellows at the MBL | Marine Biological Laboratory
The 75th cohort of Grass Fellows arrived in Woods Hole this week to begin their residency in the Grass Laboratory. Since 1951, the Grass Fellowship Program has brought early-career investigators to th...
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Congratulations to Kavli-Grass Fellow Takato Honda, recipient of the @mit.edu Infinite Expansion Award! The @picowerinstitute.bsky.social research scientist is being honored for studies, mentoring, and recently discovering a new marine species! picower.mit.edu/news/takato-...
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Takato Honda receives MIT Infinite Expansion Award
Picower Institute Research Scientist honored for studies, mentoring and recently discovering a new marine species
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Join us in the Clapp Auditorium of @mblscience.bsky.social's Lillie Building for a night of science storytelling and live music, as the 2026 Grass Fellows share the stories they honed through a Transom storytelling workshop. Register for FREE www.eventbrite.com/e/science-st...
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Science Storytelling with the Grass Fellows
Join the 2026 Grass Fellows for a night of neuroscience tales and stories you won’t want to miss.
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
When #GrassFellow David Hildebrand got jaw surgery in his 20s, he was surprised to find that people he'd known for years struggled to recognize him. That's part of why he's so interested in how paper wasps recognize each other's faces. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KryG...
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David Hildebrand: "I poke wasp nests for science, and believe it or not, I haven't been stung yet."
YouTube video by Grass Foundation
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Mel Coleman @melcolemanlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Former @grassfoundation.bsky.social Vanessa Ruta!!! Very exciting!!!
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 30/03/2026
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...
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Isaac Siu-Shing Wong is MBL 2026 Grass Fellow
MPI-CBG postdoctoral researcher joins Marine Biological Laboratory, working in the Grass Laboratory for research project.
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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!
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED! ⏰ Apply to Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Success (SPINES) by March 20. 🔗More info here: go.mbl.edu/SPINES
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Three weeks left to apply for the Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award! Go for it! grassfoundation.org/apply-for-th...
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Apply for the 2026 Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award – The Grass Foundation
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Welcome to the 2026 Grass Fellows! This year marks the 75th anniversary of the program. @mblscience.bsky.social www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-wel...
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MBL Welcomes 2026 Grass Fellows as Program Marks 75 Years of Advancing Neuroscience | Marine Biological Laboratory
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) today announced the 2026 cohort of Grass Fellows, marking the 75th anniversary of the prestigious Grass Fellowship Program. Since its founding in 1951, the Grass...
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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 grassfoundation.org/apply-for-th...
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A strong showing of #GrassFellows at this week's Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Research Conference!
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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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!
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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. grassfoundation.org/application-...
APPLY NOW: 2026 Grass Fellowship. Support for investigator-designed, independent research projects by scientists early in their career. Deadline December 1, 2025
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Come see us at booth 3816 at #SfN25!
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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! grassfoundation.org/grass-commun...
Grass Community Guide: SfN 2025 San Diego
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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. grassfoundation.org/application-...
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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.
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.
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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! grassfoundation.org/apply-for-th...
Apply now
2026 Grass Fellowship
Priority Deadline: October 15, 2025
Final Deadline: December 1, 2025
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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: mbl.zoom.us/j/9313786881...
Grass Fellows Symposium. Alex Chen, David Hildebrand, Zeeshan Banday, Sam Chakrabarti, Hannah Oberle, Christian Hoffmann, Kyra Schapiro, Alexandra Yarger
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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! ‬ grassfoundation.org/2025-henry-g...
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 17/07/2025
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
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.
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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." www.mbl.edu/news/comb-je...
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Comb Jellies Uniquely Evolved  to Sense Their World  | Marine Biological Laboratory
In 2023, the ctenophore made a splash, surprising researchers at the MBL with its bizarre biology.    Ctenophores, also known as comb jellies, are gelatinous invertebrates that beat their iridescent c...
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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
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Do Light and Darkness Shape the Patterns on Shells? A Grass Fellow Investigates | Marine Biological Laboratory
Kyra Schapiro knows how to find a good shell. A self-professed sheller – “ Yes, it’s a noun,” she said – Schapiro has amassed hundreds of seashells. “It’s the patterns and the beauty” that compels her...
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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 16/07/2025
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
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Do Light and Darkness Shape the Patterns on Shells? A Grass Fellow Investigates | Marine Biological Laboratory
Kyra Schapiro knows how to find a good shell. A self-professed sheller – “ Yes, it’s a noun,” she said – Schapiro has amassed hundreds of seashells. “It’s the patterns and the beauty” that compels her...
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Ana Lyons @tardi-neuro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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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Tardigrade-obsessed: meet the researchers trying to turn water bears into neuroscience models
For water-bear enthusiasts, it’s the creature’s legs that make it stand out.
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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. grassfoundation.org/how-birds-ba...
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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
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Grass Foundation Fellowships | Marine Biological Laboratory
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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. grassfoundation.org/announcing-t...
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
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 07/05/2025
Missed the Neurobiology in Changing Environments #NiCE symposium? Watch the full event on YouTube! Explore how nervous systems respond, resist & recover from the challenges of a rapidly changing world. 🌎 🌊 🧠 🧬 #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience #Neuroscience www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Neurobiology in Changing Environments Program 2025 - YouTube
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
With all their complexity in a tiny transparent package, could tardigrades be a useful organism for neuroscientists to study as they unravel the many mysteries of the brain? @tardi-neuro.bsky.social thinks it’s time tardigrades have their moment! grassfoundation.org/time-for-tar...
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
What is it like to do a Grass Fellowship at @mblscience.bsky.social, spending a summer doing intensive research in this amazing community of scientists? For early-career researchers like Andrea Gaede, it's a boost of enthusiasm!
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🐸 How do gliding tree frogs see the world? ➡️ What are the mechanisms of their visual motion processing? ➡️ How do they make the split-second decisions? ➡️ What can this tell us about the evolution of neural systems? grassfoundation.org/how-gliding-...
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Horseshoe crabs are amazing, and last summer one of our Grass Fellows successfully made the first genome-edited horseshoe crabs while he was at @mblscience.bsky.social! grassfoundation.org/first-genome...
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Congratulations to A. Kimberly McAllister, one this year's @aaas.org Fellows! She is a Trustee at The Grass Foundation, as well as a former fellow! Congratulations to all this year's amazing fellows, and thank you for the work you do! www.aaas.org/programs/fel...
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2024 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The first genome-edited horseshoe crabs! 🧬 2024 Grass Fellow Guilherme Gainett spent a summer at @mblscience.bsky.social developing genetic tools for these ancient creatures to see what their eyes can teach us about the evolution of sensory systems. 👀 grassfoundation.org/first-genome...
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First Genome-Edited Horseshoe Crabs – The Grass Foundation
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
MBL in the news! 🔔 Check out this story in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the importance of neuroscience courses like the ones at the MBL. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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Why practical summer courses in neuroscience matter
Among other reasons, this tradition helps researchers rekindle the unfettered joy that initially brought them to the field.
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
@mblscience.bsky.social Hi there! How are things in Woods Hole?
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The Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hi there! 👋 We're The Grass Foundation, a beacon of innovation and support in the field of neuroscience. In 2025, we're celebrating our 70th anniversary!
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