{"id":10944,"date":"2025-05-22T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/?p=10944"},"modified":"2025-05-22T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:48:40","slug":"announcing-the-2025-grass-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/?p=10944","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2025 Grass Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Welcome to this year&#8217;s cohort of Grass Fellows!<\/h3>\n<p>These eight early-career scientists will soon be in the Grass Lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to spend the summer conducting research on topics ranging from pain sensation in sharks to ocean acidification and behavior in sea slugs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zeeshan Banday<\/strong> &#8211; University of Chicago<br \/>\n<em>Mechanoelectrical transduction in jellyfish<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Chakrabarti<\/strong> &#8211; Max Delbruck Center<br \/>\n<em>Pain sensation in sharks<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Chen<\/strong> &#8211; Harvard University<br \/>\n<em>Ctenophore nerve net development<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Hildebrand<\/strong> &#8211; The Rockefeller University<br \/>\n<em>Face recognition in paper wasps<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Hoffmann<\/strong> &#8211; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases<br \/>\n<em>Ocean acidification and behavior in sea slugs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hannah Oberle<\/strong> &#8211; University of Michigan<br \/>\n<em>Synaptic plasticity in mouse inferior colliculus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyra Schapiro<\/strong> &#8211; Brandeis University<br \/>\n<em>Molluscan shell patterning<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Yarger<\/strong> &#8211; Imperial College London<br \/>\n<em>Dragonfly flight control<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To receive updates about the 2025 Grass Fellows and more from The Grass Foundation, sign up for our <a href=\"https:\/\/lp.constantcontactpages.com\/sl\/rG8QC3C\/grassfoundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this year&#8217;s cohort of Grass Fellows! These eight early-career scientists will soon be in the Grass Lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to spend the summer conducting research on topics ranging from pain sensation in sharks to ocean acidification and behavior in sea slugs. Zeeshan Banday &#8211; University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}