Attention scientists from all over the world🙃HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships application opens tomorrow! It's time to pitch your creative scientific ideas into a Letter of Intent and kick off your research career with an
#HFSPPostdoctoralFellowship
🚀What are you waiting for?
#hfsp
Attention scientists from all over the world🙃HFSP Research Grants are open for submitting Letters of Intent! Can't wait to see your research proposals! Take a look at the application guidelines:
#hfspresearchgrants
Applications are now open 🎉🎉🎉If you have a really wild idea to research, it's time to put it in a letter of intent and apply!
#HFSPResearchGrants
support new paths of research in
#BasicLifeSciences
. Go for it 💪 Read +
HFSP is delighted to announce the 2022 Research Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Congratulations to all our new awardees! Lists of the new awards available at
Attention scientists from all over the world!🙃The Call for Letters of Intent for the
#HFSPFellowships
is open, and we can't wait to know about your bold research ideas!🤩💪Have you submitted yours yet? More info:
#BasicLifeSciences
#ResearchOpportunity
We are delighted to announce the new HFSP fellowships and research grants that were approved by the HFSPO Board of Trustees in March, 2021. Congratulations to all new awardees! Lists of new awards at
Attention scientists from all over the world🙃It's time to embark on the journey of brainstorming concepts and crafting innovative research proposals!💡Prepare for the upcoming submission of Letters of Intent for the 2025 HFSP Research Grant edition! 🤩
#hfspresearchgrants
Are you ready to push the boundaries of
#LifeSciences
?
#HFSPFellowship
Program is now accepting Letters of Intent. Learn about the LTF and CDF fellowships for PhD researchers at 🔍Dive into a new area of study and work in a new country!
#ResearchOpportunity
It's time to start outlining ideas, contacting possible research partners, and drafting bold research projects!
The Letter of Intent submission for the 2024 edition of the HFSP Research Grant is coming soon! Check it out:
#hfspresearchgrants
Here are some tips for those planning to apply to HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships! :) The Letter of Intent submissions are open until 11 May. We can't wait to know your fresh research ideas! 😀
#HFSPFellowships
#HFSP
We're thrilled to unveil the
#HFSP
2024-2032 Strategic Plan: "Frontier Life Science in a Time of Change."🌍 Dive into our roadmap to see how we're expanding
#ResearchGrants
, fostering
#Diversity
, and shaping the future of
#FrontierScience
!🧬💡
🤩Exciting News!🌟Maiken Nedergaard wins the 2024
#HFSPNakasoneAward
for her groundbreaking research on the glymphatic system, shedding light on the vital role of sleep in brain health. Learn more: Congrats
@NedergaardLab
!👏👏👏🥳
#HFSP
HFSP alumni Elly Tanaka
@IMPvienna
and Bon-Kyoung Koo
@IMBA_Vienna
are among the organisers of an exciting Stem Cell Symposium that will take place virtually in early March. Check out the website at .
The HFSP mission to India is coming soon! 🙂
Let's foster some international collaboration in life sciences research! We are looking forward to meeting you at
@NImmunology
,
@DBT_CDFD
,
@IISERPune
and
@iitgn
! Read more:
HFSP research grant holder Stephan Preibisch
@BIMSB_MDC
@HHMIJanelia
and colleagues have developed an automated software tool for assessing image quality in cleared
#organoids
, accessible via the Fiji package >
Nuclei and chromatin change their mechanical properties under mechanical stress to protect genome integrity - by HFSP Long-Term Fellow Yekaterina Miroshnikova
@helsinkiuni
and colleagues
#stemcells
Attention scientists from all over the world!🙃Mark your📅for the International Symposium on
#FrontierScience
at the Interface of
#Physics
&
#Biology
! Join us for insightful talks by world-renowned experts🧑🔬 + info:
#Symposium2024
An HFSP grant to Mason Dean
@MpiciPotsdam
and James Weaver
@wyssinstitute
to study the cartilaginous skeletons of sharks laid the groundwork to prove for the first time that chimaera share the same tessellated cartilage with sharks and rays
Attention scientists from all over the world🙃For those considering applying to the HFSP Research Grants Call, here are some tips from our
#ResearchGrants
director
@almut_kelber
! You're welcome!😉
Funding opportunity in the life sciences from the Human Frontier Science Program (
@HFSP
). Check this post for deadlines and advice on how to draft an application:
Rotem Sorek
@SorekLab
won the HFSP Nakasone Award this year for his discoveries on the immune system of bacteria that opened new fields in microbiology and virology. Who will be the next
#HFSPNakasoneAwardee
? It's up to you! Nominations are open!
Attention scientific community🙃
@IndiaBioscience
is hosting a free webinar about
#HFSPFellowships
. Join us to know all about HFSP programs and how to get a fellowship! Maybe next year you can join our
#HFSPawardees
family!😉Registration is open! Info:
Dreaming of groundbreaking research?🌟The
#HFSPFellowships
beckons!👋Unlock your potential with support for
#interdisciplinary
, high-risk projects in
#basiclifesciences
. Check eligibility criteria & apply by 14 May for a chance to pioneer change!
HFSP Early Career grant holders Jérôme Gros
@institutpasteur
and Otger Campas
@UCSBmece
reveal that an interplay between tissue mechanics and molecular signaling enables the emergence of digits
We are happy to announce the winners of the 2019 HFSP Research Grants, Postdoctoral Fellowships and Career Development Awards. Congratulations to all new awardees! For the lists of awards and press releases see:
An HFSP grant collaboration between Anna Akhmanova
@UtrechtUni
, Ben Goult
@UniKent
, Jie Yan
@NUSingapore
and Guy Tanentzapf
@UBC
revealed the connection between cell adhesion and the cell’s microtubule cytoskeleton via a family of proteins called KANKs
The first online HFSP Awardees Meeting got off to a great start yesterday. Today brings more exciting talks on a variety of subjects including synthetic T-cells, acoustic communication in mosquitoes and optogenetic neurotransmitter systems starting @ 11:00 CEST
#HFSPmeeting
Attention scientists from all over the world🙃The final deadline to submit a Letter of Intent for a
#HFSPFellowship
is coming close. Hurry up! We can't wait to read your bold research ideas! + info:
#basiclifesciences
HFSP Program Grant holders Marie-Edith Chabouté
@unistra
and Henrik Jönsson
@slcuplants
reveal that organ emergence in plants induces nuclear compression and chromatin changes at the organ-meristem boundary in a mechanical feedback loop >
Social touch promotes communication via
#oxytocin
- by HFSP Program Grant holders Valery Grinevich
@zi_mannheim
and Shlomo Wagner at University of Haifa and colleagues
#neuroscience
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 HFSP Nakasone Award: congratulations to Aviv Regev
@genentech
@Broadinstitute
, F. Ulrich Hartl
@MPI_Biochem
and Arthur L. Horwich
@Yale
. Read more at
MOrgAna – a tool developed by HFSP fellow Nicola Gritti and colleagues
@EMBL
- provides a user-friendly interface to identify and quantify
#organoids
in microscopy images using
#machinelearning
Two researchers in a room, chatting about
#physics
and
#biology
and sharing experiences about
#frontierscience
... 🫵Do you want to be one of them? Submit your abstract here . We found you a tandem partner for your talk!😉
#hfsp
#unistra
The HFSPO team are on their way to the 21st HFSP Awardees Meeting. We are looking forward to a really exciting meeting and to welcoming our awardees and other members of the HFSP community to Paris
#HFSPmtg
HFSP symposia in India started with a talk about "Opportunities for frontier research collaborations by the Human Frontier Science Program" at the
@NImmunology
.
@DBTIndia
thank you for the warmest reception! Next meetings:
@IISERPune
and
@DBT_CDFD
. We can't wait!🙂
How flower petals inspired HFSP Program Grant holders Beverley Glover
@plantsci
and Alfred Crosby
@UMassPSE
and colleagues to develop a novel tunable broad-angle diffracting surface leading to opportunities for engineering new
#biomimetic
structures
As the
#HFSPmtg
draws to a close we wish all our awardees safe travels home and if you missed any of the great talks during the meeting they will available on replay on the virtual platform for 3 months.
Kudos to the HFSP Fellowship Awardee
@AlexanderJBoys
, researcher
@cebcambridge
, for a great scientific contribution to advancing bioelectronic neural implants! Read more: DOI: 10.1002/adma.202207847
@AdvSciNews
MINFLUX, a new super-resolution microscopy technique - by HFSP Young Investigator Grant holder Jonas Ries
@embl
and HFSP Program Grant holder Stefan Hell
@mpi_mr_hd
and colleagues
#superresolutionmicroscopy
Left, right, back, or stuck?🤔
HFSP researchers found how cells decide to migrate inside our bodies! 🤩
The study was published today in
@NaturePhysics
. 🥳 Congrats
@pj_saez
#NirGov
and
@lab_gauthier
! You rock!💪
Read +
Preparations for the 2022 HFSP Awardees Meeting
#HFSPmtg
are well underway. We look forward to welcoming our awardees to our first hybrid meeting that will take place at Institut Pasteur, Paris from 28 August to 1 September. More information at
The 2019 HFSP Nakasone Award winner was announced today at the
@Wcsj2019Eu
. Congratulations to Michael Hall of the
@Biozentrum
on winning the award for his discovery of the master regulator of cell growth, the target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase
Highlights of day 3 at the
#HFSPmtg
include the second 2022 HFSP Nakasone Lecture by Aviv Regev and a special session on the Shared Values of HFSP – an open discussion on diversity, equity and inclusion, sustainability and open science.
The announcement of the 2022 HFSP research grants and fellowships has generated much excitement on the web. Thanks to our new awardees and their institutions for helping us to spread the good news! We are compiling a list of links to their announcements >
HFSP Program Grant holder Yutetsu Kuruma together with Yasuhiro Shimane
@JAMSTEC_PR
have established a rapid and easy method to prepare artificial cells through optimizing a process using the droplet transfer method
What underlies the ability to count and where did it come from? HFSP grant team Caroline Brennan
@QMUL
, Giorgio Vallortigara
@UniTrento
and Scott Fraser
@USC
shed light on the brain activity of
#zebrafish
upon change in the numerosity of visual stimuli
HFSP Program grantee Daniel Streicker
@UofGlasgow
and colleagues compared the genome composition of vampire bat viruses to other viruses which have infected humans using machine learning in order to evaluate their zoonotic potential >
HFSP Young Investigators Enrico Klotzsch
@HumboldtUni
and Jonas Ries
@EMBL
and colleagues have developed a traction force
#microscopy
platform which enables the forces exerted during T-Cell activation to be measured >
HFSP Cross-Disciplinary Fellow Pau Guillamat and colleagues
@UNIGEnews
reveal how multicellular spiral and aster orientational defects organize active forces to localize differentiation and promote 3D tissue growth >
The 30th anniversary of HFSPO will be celebrated today in Strasbourg, the home of the HFSPO Secretariat. We are looking forward to an afternoon of exciting frontier science at
@unistra
. The full programme is available at
A novel regeneration technology offers a boost for genome editing in agriculture - by HFSP Long-Term Fellow Juan Debernardi
@ucdavis
and colleagues
#PlantBiotechnology
From microbiology to nanotechnology or even biomedical engineering, 677 researchers applied to the
#HFSPFellowship
Program this year!
Are you one of them?
Thank you for your application! The review process is beginning.
Wish you all good luck!🤞
In the final, the stage belongs to all of us who made the
#HFSPMeeting2023
such an amazing event! Thank you
@NRF_News
and
@MRCza
teams for hosting us so warmly 🤗
HFSP grantee Yoshihiro Shimizu
@RIKEN_BDR
and colleagues assembled the E. coli ribosome in vitro giving new insights into the function and structure of the
#ribosome
Dive into the world of bacterial immune systems🦠 with the 2023
#HFSPNakasoneAwardee
Rotem Sorek
@SorekLab
! The Lecture from the 2023
#HFSPAwardeesMeeting
explores groundbreaking discoveries that reshaped our understanding of virus defense.🎥
The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 conceals itself with an ‘invisibility cloak’ of glycans. HFSP grantee Gerhard Hummer and colleagues
@MPIbp
used computational methods to identify weak spots in this cloak as possible targets of therapeutics and vaccines >
How can dung beetles find their way home without landmarks? HFSP Program Grant holder Poramate Manoonpong
@UniSouthDenmark
and colleagues used bio-inspired
#robotics
to investigate the mechanisms underlying complex
#dungbeetle
navigation >
These days HFSP is visiting one of our country members! Thank you for hosting us
#Australia
! 🙂It was great to meet
#hfspawardees
and
#hfspalumni
and stretch ties with the major scientific Australian institutions!
On 9th September, HFSP Secretary-General Pavel Kabat met with the “Mother of HFSPO” Mme Catherine Trautmann at a lunch hosted by the Consul General of Japan
@JaponStrasbourg
in the Program’s host city
@Strasbourg
Call for applications for the 2023 HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships - the online platform is now open for submission of letters of intent. More information at
The mystery of the molecular mechanisms that enable the
#circadianclock
to exhibit paradoxical characteristics of robustness and plasticity are revealed by HFSP Early Career grantee Jae Kyoung Kim of
@IBS_media
and
@KAISTpr
>
Congratulations to HFSP fellow Katharina Lust
@IMPVienna
and colleagues who have mapped out all cells in the salamander brain - a study recently published in Science
At
#HFSP
we are delighted to support
#WomenInScience
on their research journeys to create new knowledge and advance science💪And this one is an outstanding scientific breakthrough made by the talented
#HFSPFellow
@BejaranoLeire
! 👏👏👏Take a look:
The keynote speakers Rotem Sorek
@SorekLab
and Thokozile Lewanika
@TMpupuni
opened the
#HFSPMeeting2023
with a deep vision of bacteria fighting infections and a global vision of the impact of
#basiclifesciences
in society. What a great start! 🤩
HFSP Cross-Disciplinary Fellow Ariel Ben-Sasson
@uwmnewsroom
and HFSP Career Development awardee Emmanuel Derivery
@MRC_LMB
and colleagues have re-engineered two proteins so that they assemble into a 2D material that can be used for studying endocytosis