Starting in 2019, Mellisa Coleman will serve as Director of the Grass Laboratory and Christophe Dupre will serve as Associate Director. Melissa is Professor at Claremont McKenna College, was a Grass Fellow in 1996 and has served as a Trustee of the Foundation since 2016. She will follow in the footsteps of Dr. Kamran Khodakhah who has been Director of the Grass lab from 2015-2018. Christophe Dupre is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Florian Engert at Harvard. Christophe was a Grass Fellow in 2016 and is continuing his exciting work on Hydra. He will follow Dr. Heather Rhodes who served as Associate Director in 2017 and 2018.
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Our twitter account is getting a bit more active than in the past. Check out some of the recent tweets here: https://twitter.com/grassfoundation
4th of July Parade
The traditional 4th of July parade in Woods Hole was an amazing success with the Grass Fellows hosting a squid and nautilus.
New President
As of January 1, 2018 the Grass Foundation has a new President! Catherine Carr takes over the position from Felix Schweizer who will be helping Carr with the transition. You can read more details here: presidents-welcome
Ricardo Miledi
On December 18, 2017 we lost Ricardo Miledi, a dear friend of the Grass Foundation, an outstanding researcher and scholar , a wonderful human being, a fantastic mentor. He will be dearly missed! To cite FALAN: “… un maestro de las neurociencias, un latinoamericano que supo conquistar un lugar renombrado entre sus pares. Un maestro […]