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2008 Grass Fellows

Nine scientists have been awarded fellowships by the Grass Foundation to conduct research in neurobiology at the MBL this summer. The program is directed by Catherine Carr, University of Maryland. Gal Haspel, NIH/NINDS, serves as associate director.

Jennifer E. Bestman, Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Visualizing dendritic mRNA translation in vivo: links to neuronal structural plasticity

Gwyneth M. Card, M.S.
California Institute of Technology
A model for decision-making in the flight initiation system of Drosophila

Boris P. Chagnaud, Ph.D.
Cornell University
Ontogeny of vocal motor function in toadfishes

Joaquin N. Lugo Jr., Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
The Effect of Transient Early-Life Seizures on the Behavior, Anatomy, and Function of the Developing Zebrafish Brain

T. Aran Mooney, M.S.
University of Hawaii
Examination of the Auditory Sensitivity of the Squid (Loligo pealeii)

Keram Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
Dalhousie University
Behavioral and neuronal mechanisms underlying sky compass navigation in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

Stefano Tiozzo, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Neurogenesis and Neural Regeneration in the Basal Chordate Botrylius schlosseri

Katrin Vonderschen
RWTH Aachen University
Novelty detection in midbrain neurons of pulse type electric fish

Qi Zhang, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Super-Resolution Tracking of Single Synaptic Vesicles with Quantum Dots

 
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