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The Grass Fellowship program brings early-career investigators to the С�����Ƶ for 14 weeks to pursue a self-designed, independent research project in neuroscience. provides full support for the fellows, who become part of the vibrant intellectual and social dynamic within the С�����Ƶ scientific community while sharing space in the Grass Laboratory.

We're proud to announce the 2023 Grass Fellows:

• Tommi Anttonen, University of Southern Denmark
  Unraveling the Presynaptic Mechanisms of Noise Overexposure in Avian Auditory Receptor Cells

• Ivan Candido-Ferreira, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
  The Genomic Basis of Neurodevelopment in the Little Skate (Leucoraja erinacea)

• Daniel Cortes, Virginia Tech
  Learning and Behavioral Studies in Unicellular Organisms: A Case Study of Stentors

• Helen Farrants, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Visualizing Calcium Dynamics in Squid Using Genetically Encoded Indicators

• Itzel Gonzalez Ishida, The Rockefeller University
  Visualizing Spatial Memories: Localization of Molecules within a Drosophila Navigation Circuit

• Takato Honda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Electrophysiological and Computational Investigation of Sleep/Wake Behaviors and State-Specific Neural Representations

• Kei Jokura, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter
  Revealing the Mechanism of Light-Dependent Sign-Switching of Gravitaxis in a Ctenophore
  (Funded by The Kavli Foundation)

• James Lee, The Rockefeller University
  Dissecting the Unusual Birthing Behavior of Arsenic-Resistant Tokorhabditis tufae
  (Funded by The Kavli Foundation)

• Mariana Rodriguez-Santiago, Colorado State University
  Neural Basis of Acoustic Mating Decisions in a Female Tree Frog

for the fellows are here. This year’s Grass Lab is directed by of University of California Davis. The associate director is of the University of California, Berkeley.