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Albert and Ellen Grass Faculty Awards
Four investigators have been awarded Grass Faculty Awards at the MBL this summer. The goal of this Program is to take advantage of the collaborative environment of the MBL and bring together neuroscientists at the Assistant or Associate Professor level from different institutions to work together to conduct specific research in neuroscience.
Farzan Nadim of NJIT/ Rutgers University and Wolfgang Stein of Universitaet Ulm, will collaborate on a project titled “Proprioceptive feedback to a motor pattern generating network.”
Elizabeth Jonas of Yale University and James Tong of the University of California, Irvine, will collaborate on a project titled “Mitochondrial code for learning and memory.”
MBL Summer Research Fellows
Eighteen scientists have received fellowships totaling $303,867 to conduct research at the MBL this summer.
Ricardo Araneda
Columbia University
“Noradrenergic modulation of granule cell inhibitory activity in the olfactory bulb”
Eva Enders
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
“Effects of turbulent flow on the lateral line system of fishes”
Ilya Fleidervish
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“The role of late sodium channels in dynamic control of neuronal integration”
Fabrizio Gabbiani
Baylor College of Medicine
“Characterization of local membrane properties and action potential backpropagation within the dendritic tree of a looming sensitive neuron”
Maria Gomez
Boston University School of Medicine
“Mechanisms of extra-synaptic neurotransmitter release”
Mia Horowitz
Tel Aviv University
“Imaging EHDs and their interacting proteins”
William Jeffery
University of Maryland
“Evolutionary origin of neural crest stem cells”
Matthew Kreitzer
Indiana Wesleyan University
“Regulation of hydrogen flux from cone and rod horizontal cells”
Matthias Landgraf
The University of Cambridge
“Imaging the development of neural activity patterns during the acquisition of embryonic motor behavior”
Katsuya Miyake
Medical College of Georgia
“Resealing of plasma membrane disruptions in sea urchin eggs”
Ronald Pethig
University of Wales, Bangor
"Construction and studies of artificially engineered pancreatic beta-cell assemblies"
Jonathon Pines
University of Cambridge
“The role of cyclin-Cdks in cell division”
Anton Post
Hebrew University
“Niche adaptation and evolution of marine cyanobacteria”
Omar Quintero
Franklin and Marshall College
“Myosin 19 in a novel myosin involved in mitochondrial movement”
Daphne Soares
University of Maryland
“Regeneration in the visual system of the blind cave fish Astyanax mexicanus”
Jason Swedlow
University of Dundee
“Tracking kineotchores in living cells”
Kevin Vaughan
University of Notre Dame
“Isoform-specific targeting of cytoplasmic dynein in neurons”
Harold Zakon
The University of Texas
“Cloning of myogenic genes from highly derived muscles of fish”
Scholar-in-Residence
Ehud Razin
Hebrew University Medical School
“Exploring the role played by Ap4A and Ap4A hydrolase in sea urchin function”
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