For those traveling to the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, you can catch up with Grass Fellows and their recent work. Below is a working list of sessions featuring Grass Fellows and activities supported by The Grass Foundation. To request an addition to this list please email info@grassfoundation.org.
Additionally, The Grass Foundation is hosting the Grass Social on Sunday, November 16, from 6:00-9:00. To request an invitation with full details, please email info@grassfoundation.org.
Lastly, be sure to come vist us at Booth 3816 in the Exhibitor Hall.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
- Session PSTR014 – Altered Energy Homeostasis in Alzheimer’s Disease
- Peter Koulen – 1999 Grass Fellow
2:00-3:00pm Poster
PSTR014.10 / D63 – Oxidative stress differentially affects the expression levels of proteins controlling mitochondrial and metabolic function in neural progenitor cells and neurons derived from neural progenitor cells depending on differentiation status
- Peter Koulen – 1999 Grass Fellow
Sunday, November 16, 2025
- Session PSTR059 – Synaptic Plasticity: Short-Term Dynamics and Homeostatic Adaptation
- Dennis Weingarten – 2024 Grass Fellow
9:00-10:00am Poster
PSTR059.02 / C4 – Synaptotagmin-3 and -7 mediate short-term facilitation via dynamic vesicle recruitment to the readily releasable pool
- Dennis Weingarten – 2024 Grass Fellow
- Session PSTR105 – Presynaptic Mechanisms, Organization, and Structure II
- George Augustine – 1979 Grass Fellow
4:00-5:00pm Poster
PSTR105.04 / B43 – Mobilization of reserve pool synaptic vesicles by synapsin phosphorylation
- George Augustine – 1979 Grass Fellow
- Session PSTR120 – Hair Cells and the Periphery
- Oscar Arenas Sabogal – 2020-2021 Grass Fellow and Grass Lab Associate Director (2023-2025)
4:00-5:00pm Poster
PSTR120.12 / K14 – Ancient Balance Organs: The Role of PIEZO channels in the Ctenophore Statocyst
- Oscar Arenas Sabogal – 2020-2021 Grass Fellow and Grass Lab Associate Director (2023-2025)
Monday, November 17, 2025
- Session NANO024 – Connectomics
- Christophe Dupre – 2016 Grass Fellow and 2020 Grass Lab Associate Director
8:00-8:15am Talk
NANO024.01 – Connectomic dissection of a circuit for locomotory behavior in Hydra vulgaris - Paul Katz – 1988 Grass Fellow
11:15-11:30 Talk
NANO024.14 – Two neural circuit motifs extracted from volume EM images of the rhinophore ganglion of the gastropod mollusc, Berghia stephanieae
- Christophe Dupre – 2016 Grass Fellow and 2020 Grass Lab Associate Director
- Session PSTR188 – Neural Mechanisms: Adaptive Choice
- Ruidong Chen – 2019 Grass Fellow
9:00-11:00 Poster
PSTR188.14 / MM17 – Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex Add to Itinerary
- Ruidong Chen – 2019 Grass Fellow
- Session LBP046 – H.03. Motivation
- Junichi Yoshida – 2018 Grass Fellow
10:00-11:00 Poster
LBP046.08 / LBP103 – AgRP Neuronal Suppression by Spontaneous Movement Encodes Exercise Reinforcement
- Junichi Yoshida – 2018 Grass Fellow
- LEC14 – Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture and Ceremony for the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neurosciences
- David. D. Ginty, 2025 Albert and Ellen Grass Lecturer
Brendan Ito, 2025 Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neurscience Recipient
3:00-4:30pm
- David. D. Ginty, 2025 Albert and Ellen Grass Lecturer
- Session PSTR236 – Social Communication and Behavior Across Species
- Adriane Otopalik – 2017 Fellow
4:00-5:00pm Poster
PSTR236.17 / FF2 – Distinct social behavioral functions of P1 neuronal subtypes in male fruit flies
- Adriane Otopalik – 2017 Fellow
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
- Session PSTR258 – Comparative and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Brain Development and Molecular Specialization
- Paul Katz – 1988 Grass Fellow
9:00-10:00am Poster
PSTR258.02 / B3 – Transcriptomic analysis of molluscan chemosensory transduction genes suggests use of novel G proteins and ionotropic receptors
- Paul Katz – 1988 Grass Fellow
- Session PSTR345 – Rhythmic Pattern Generation Invertebrates
- Mel Coleman – 1996 Grass Fellow, Grass Lab Director (2019-2021) and former Grass Trustee
2:00-3:00pm Poster
PSTR345.02 / Y9 – Modulation of CPG feedback changes rhythm generation locus
- Mel Coleman – 1996 Grass Fellow, Grass Lab Director (2019-2021) and former Grass Trustee
- Session MIN33 – Cryo-Electron Tomography in Neurobiology
- Shigeki Watanabe – 2014 Grass Fellow
2:00-4:30 Session Chair - Kristina Lippman – 2017 Grass Fellow
4:00-4:20 Talk
- Shigeki Watanabe – 2014 Grass Fellow
Wednesdsay, November 19, 2025
- Session PSTR415 – Grid Cells and Spatially Modulated Cells
- Horst Obenhaus – 2022 Grass Fellow
11:00am-12:00pm Poster
PSTR415.12 / QQ12 – Developmental Trajectories of Functional Cell Types in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex
- Horst Obenhaus – 2022 Grass Fellow
- Session NANO054 – Novel Biochemical and Molecular Techniques
- Caroline Fecher – 2019 Grass Fellow
2:30-2:45pm Talk
NANO054.07 – Tagless MitoIP for the immunocapture of neuronal mitochondria from peripheral tissues
- Caroline Fecher – 2019 Grass Fellow