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The journey begins! 🌍 The provisional program for the 24th HFSP Awardees Meeting is now live! 👀 Get a first look at bold science and boundary-crossing sessions in Melbourne 🧪 🔗 zurl.co/DKwyG Final details coming soon—stay tuned! #sts #HFSPmtg2025

The journey begins! 🌍
The provisional program for the 24th HFSP Awardees Meeting is now live!
👀 Get a first look at bold science and boundary-crossing sessions in Melbourne 🧪    
🔗 zurl.co/DKwyG 
Final details coming soon—stay tuned!
#sts #HFSPmtg2025
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For HFSP awardees & neuroscience enthusiasts: #CIFARWinterSchool brings together early-career scientists & global leaders in brain research.🧠A great opportunity for those exploring the neural basis of consciousness, just like many in our #HFSP community!

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How did life begin making proteins? 🧪 HFSP-supported researchers reveal how ancient ribosomal RNA and peptides likely co-evolved inside protocell droplets, shedding light on life’s earliest molecular machinery! #HFSPResearchgGrants #sts #Ribosome 🔗 zurl.co/1Ryar

How did life begin making proteins? 🧪  
HFSP-supported researchers reveal how ancient ribosomal RNA and peptides likely co-evolved inside protocell droplets, shedding light on life’s earliest molecular machinery!
#HFSPResearchgGrants #sts #Ribosome
🔗 zurl.co/1Ryar
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🐝 On #WorldBeeDay, celebrate science that helps us understand bees better! 🧪 #HFSPGrant researchers reveal that during buzz-pollination, bees bite flowers to send powerful head vibrations, doubling the motion of the anther and unlocking pollen. 📃 zurl.co/PHvbX #sts

🐝 On #WorldBeeDay, celebrate science that helps us understand bees better!
🧪 #HFSPGrant researchers reveal that during buzz-pollination, bees bite flowers to send powerful head vibrations, doubling the motion of the anther and unlocking pollen.
📃  zurl.co/PHvbX  #sts
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Swipe back to #HFSPmtg2024 in Washington, DC 🇺🇸 Science without borders. Conversations that sparked new ideas. Smiles & surprises. Ready to do it all again in Melbourne? 🌏 Who's coming? #HFSPmtg2025 #sts 📸👇

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🧪 Today HFSPO Secretary-General Pavel Kabat will deliver a Presidential Guest Lecture at KAUST. He’ll speak on how frontier research is transforming biology—and how interdisciplinary science can reshape both health and climate. #HFSP #KAUST #FrontierScience #LifeSciences

🧪 Today HFSPO Secretary-General Pavel Kabat will deliver a Presidential Guest Lecture at <a href="/KAUST_News/">KAUST</a>. He’ll speak on how frontier research is transforming biology—and how interdisciplinary science can reshape both health and climate.  #HFSP #KAUST #FrontierScience #LifeSciences
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🧬 Can microbes learn to anticipate the future? 🧪 HFSP-supported researchers are exploring how bacteria respond to uncertain environments, revealing how evolution, memory, and decision-making arise even in the microbial world. #HFSPResearchGrants #sts 🔗 zurl.co/RXcaW

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⏳ Last call for early birds! Register for the HFSP Awardees Meeting before 31 May to catch the discounted rate 🌍 Join us in Melbourne for bold science & global collaboration.🧪 🔗 zurl.co/oNo6V #HFSPmtg2025 #sts #frontierscience

⏳ Last call for early birds!
Register for the HFSP Awardees Meeting before 31 May to catch the discounted rate 🌍
Join us in Melbourne for bold science &amp; global collaboration.🧪  
🔗  zurl.co/oNo6V 
#HFSPmtg2025  #sts #frontierscience
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Can AI help decode how bird brains work?🧠 HFSP Accelerator grantees are enhancing avian brain imaging with cutting-edge AI, uncovering functional brain patterns across species.🦜 How cool is this? 😁 #HFSPResearchGgrants #AI #Neuroimaging #sts 🧪 🔗zurl.co/XDy9l

Can AI help decode how bird brains work?🧠 
HFSP Accelerator grantees are enhancing avian brain imaging with cutting-edge AI, uncovering functional brain patterns across species.🦜
How cool is this? 😁

#HFSPResearchGgrants #AI #Neuroimaging #sts 🧪 
🔗zurl.co/XDy9l
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☕ Some of the world’s most exciting collaborations started over coffee at an HFSP Awardees meeting. New connections, wild ideas, and science without borders: What will spark in 2025?🧪 #HFSPmtg2025 #sts

☕ Some of the world’s most exciting collaborations started over coffee at an HFSP Awardees meeting.

New connections, wild ideas, and science without borders: What will spark in 2025?🧪 

#HFSPmtg2025 #sts
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🧬 Can cells perform “repair jobs” on their protein machines? #HFSPFellow Lena Bogeholz explores how cells decide to fix or fully replace broken protein complexes, boosting our understanding of cellular efficiency and resource management. 🧪 #sts 🔗 zurl.co/zke7o

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🧪 On #WorldEnvironmentDay we spotlight #FrontierResearch by Jan Siemens (Heidelberg University) that reveals how life and the brain adapt to a warming world.🌡️ 🎥 zurl.co/Q079U #HFSP #HeatAdaptation #Neuroscience #ClimateChange #sts #WED2025

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Genes matter, but sometimes cell density rules! #HFSP Fellow marco santorelli showed that a single synthetic gene circuit can generate diverse patterns just by changing the density of cells. 🧬New ways to decode development. 📄 bit.ly/45DfzGe #DevelopmentalBiology

Genes matter, but sometimes cell density rules!
#HFSP Fellow <a href="/marcosantorelli/">marco santorelli</a> showed that a single synthetic gene circuit can generate diverse patterns just by changing the density of cells.
🧬New ways to decode development.
📄 bit.ly/45DfzGe
#DevelopmentalBiology
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🧪 At #WorldFoodSafetyDay we spotlight Chaitanya Gokhale (Würzburg & MPI Plön) who uses Parrondo’s paradox to optimize crop rotation, balancing yield and sustainability. Fewer pesticides, smarter cycles, safer food! 🎥 zurl.co/B3PDu #HFSP #FoodSecurity #sts

🧪 At #WorldFoodSafetyDay we spotlight Chaitanya Gokhale (Würzburg &amp; MPI Plön) who uses Parrondo’s paradox to optimize crop rotation, balancing yield and sustainability.
Fewer pesticides, smarter cycles, safer food!
🎥 zurl.co/B3PDu
#HFSP #FoodSecurity #sts
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🧪 On #WorldOceansDay, we dive deep-sea—(almost) literally! 🌊 Audrey Mat (Vienna BioCenter) studied hydrothermal vent mussels at 1700m below sea level, revealing they do follow tidal rhythms. 🎥 Watch: zurl.co/HhDqY #HFSP #MarineBiology #WOD2025 #sts

🧪 On #WorldOceansDay, we dive deep-sea—(almost) literally!
🌊 Audrey Mat (Vienna BioCenter) studied hydrothermal vent mussels at 1700m below sea level, revealing they do follow tidal rhythms.

🎥 Watch: zurl.co/HhDqY

#HFSP #MarineBiology #WOD2025 #sts
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It’s here! 🎉 The final program for the HFSP Awardees Meeting 2025 is now online. Explore groundbreaking science, global speakers, and bold ideas—all in Melbourne 🌏 📅 See what’s coming: zurl.co/B1dyE 🧪 #sts #HFSPmtg2025 #GlobalCollaboration #FrontierScience

It’s here! 🎉 The final program for the HFSP Awardees Meeting 2025 is now online.
Explore groundbreaking science, global speakers, and bold ideas—all in Melbourne 🌏
📅 See what’s coming: zurl.co/B1dyE 
🧪  #sts #HFSPmtg2025 #GlobalCollaboration #FrontierScience
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🌱 On this #WorldDaytoCombatDesertification and Drought, #HFSPGrant researchers are digging into ancient dunes. 🧪By reviving long-buried seeds, they’re tracking how fast dune grasses evolve to help protect coasts from erosion & #climatechange. 🔗 zurl.co/HpOSz

🌱 On this #WorldDaytoCombatDesertification and Drought, #HFSPGrant researchers are digging into ancient dunes.

🧪By reviving long-buried seeds, they’re tracking how fast dune grasses evolve to help protect coasts from erosion &amp; #climatechange. 

🔗 zurl.co/HpOSz
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🌞 As summer heat sets in, how do plants keep cool? HFSP-supported scientists uncovered a long-mysterious genetic pathway that lets leaves open their pores to beat the heat, even when water is scarce. 🔗zurl.co/4ktdb #HFSPgrants #PlantScience #ClimateResilience #sts🧪

🌞 As summer heat sets in, how do plants keep cool?
HFSP-supported scientists uncovered a long-mysterious genetic pathway that lets leaves open their pores to beat the heat, even when water is scarce.
🔗zurl.co/4ktdb 
#HFSPgrants #PlantScience #ClimateResilience #sts🧪
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🧪 What happens when cell death goes wrong? At the 24th #HFSP Awardees Meeting, Shigekazu Nagata (Osaka University) will deliver a keynote on apoptosis, immune balance, and what happens when dead cells don’t get cleared. 🔗 zurl.co/MWw5l #sts #HFSPmtg2025

🧪 What happens when cell death goes wrong?

At the 24th #HFSP Awardees Meeting, Shigekazu Nagata (Osaka University) will deliver a keynote on apoptosis, immune balance, and what happens when dead cells don’t get cleared.

🔗  zurl.co/MWw5l 
#sts #HFSPmtg2025