19th HFSP Awardees Meeting Program - Thursday

Green life in the dark
Chris Bowler, Institute of Biology, ENS, Paris, France
Program Grant 2016

Combined DUV Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy to localize biomass and identify microbial activity: how identifying microorganisms 4850’ underground informs the search for life on Mars
Haley Sapers, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Long-Term Fellow 2016

Dissecting cytoskeletal dynamics across the malaria parasite lifecycle
Friedrich Frischknecht, Heidelberg University, Germany
Young Investigator Grant 2016

From basic science to advanced medicine
Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

An in vivo time-lapse imaging screen, coupled with automated dendrite feature detection and quantification, reveals the molecular mechanisms of major dendrite branch formation
Li Foong Yoong, Center for Brain Science, RIKEN Institute, Saitama, Japan
Long-Term Fellow 2009

Neuroendocrine control of female germline stem cell proliferation in the fruit fly drosophila melanogaster
Ryusuke Niwa, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba and Structural Biology Research Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
Long-Term Fellow 2005

Uncovering the mechanisms underlying the formation of the cerebral cortex using gyrencephalic ferrets
Hiroshi Kawasaki, Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Japan
Young-Investigator Grant 2007

A dung beetle's life: towards understanding the role of locomotion in path integration and its consequences for precision when navigating
Emily Baird, Stockholm University and Lund University, Sweden
Program Grant 2017

Towards self-reproduction of protocells and minimal cells: evolution versus engineering
Yusuke Maeda, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Program Grant 2015

Revealing bacterial free energy dynamics during loss of viability
Teuta Pilizota, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
Program Grant 2015

Neural correlates of perceptual decision making in larval zebrafish
Armin Bahl, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Long-Term Fellow 2016

In vitro reconstitution of bacterial cell division
Natalia Baranova, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Long-Term Fellow 2016 

Towards room-temperature atomic-resolution structure determination of single fibrils, viruses and macromolecules using XFEL pulses
Henry Chapman, DESY, University of Hamburg, Germany
Program Grant 2017

Novel morphological and functional insights in python cardiac biology
Claudia Crocini, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Long-Term Fellow 2017

Rebuilding and reimagining the last common ancestor, a ribo-organism
Andrew Ellington, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Program Grant 2017

Imaging brain activity and connectivity in intact behaving animals
Scott Fraser, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Program Grant 2017

Highly parallel high-speed nanoscopy
Wiebke Jahr, Institute for Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Long-Term Fellow 2018

Continuity of epigenetic information from the sperm to the embryo
Ferenc Mueller, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
Program Grant 2015

How birds lost their tails: the developmental mechanisms underneath a major evolutionary event
Daniel Sieiro Mosti, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
Long-Term Fellow 2018

Functional analysis of the protein tyrosine phosphatase LAR in the endocytosis of tetanus toxin in mammalian motor neurons
Sunaina Surana, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Long-Term Fellow 2017 

Poster Session 2