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HFSP AWARDS 2018

RESEARCH GRANTS

Research Grants (Program Grants and Young Investigators) provide 3 years of support for international teams involving at least two countries. Preference is given to intercontinental collaborations (rather than all N. American or all European teams). All team members are expected to broaden the character of their research compared to their ongoing research programs and interact with teams bringing expertise that is very different from their own so as to create novel approaches to problems in fundamental biology. All members of a Young Investigator team must be within 5 years of establishing their independent research group and no more than 10 years from their doctoral degree. Program Grant teams may consist of team members at any stage of their career as independent investigators.

Program Grants and Young Investigators are listed separately, alphabetically. The first named for each award is the Principal Investigator. Nationality is in parentheses when different from country in which the laboratory is located.

PROGRAM GRANTS

Controlling cellular biochemistry with electronic signals – a step towards

bioelectronic hybrids

ALEXANDROV Dept. of Cell & Molecular Biology Australia Kirill Institute for Molecular Bioscience and

Australian Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology The University of Queensland

St Lucia, Brisbane

KATZ Dept. of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science USA Evgeny Clarkson University

Potsdam, NY

O' SULLIVAN Dept. of Chemical Engineering Spain Ciara Universitat Rovira i Virgili

ICREA

(Ireland)

Tarragona

Integrating mechanotransduction in development: how does cell shape dictate

chromatin remodeling?

CHABOUTE Institut De Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes France Marie-Edith CNRS UPR 2357

Strasbourg

ASNACIOS Matière et Systèmes Complexes France Atef UMR 7057 CNRS

Université Paris-Diderot

JÖNSSON Sainsbury Lab UK Henrik University of Cambridge (Sweden)

TAMURA Dept. of Botany Japan Kentaro Kyoto University

Protein nanocages as single molecular reactors to understand biocatalysis

in crowded environments

DE PABLO Física de la Materia Condensada C-III Spain Pedro J. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

DOUGLAS Dept. of Chemistry USA Trevor Indiana University

Bloomington

VICKERS Claudia

Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology The University of Queensland

Australia

St Lucia, Brisbane

PROGRAM GRANTS

Probing persistence paradigms: synthetically, immunologically and ecologically

DREXLER Institute of Virology Germany Jan Felix Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

DUPREX Center for Vaccine Research USA W Paul University of Pittsburgh (UK)

STREICKER MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research UK Daniel University of Glasgow (USA)

Handling OXPHOS structural heterogeneity and metabolic plasticity

ENRÍQUEZ Myocardial Pathophysiolgy Area Spain José Antonio Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones

Cardiovasculares Carlos III-CNIC

Madrid

BUSCH Dept. of Biology Germany Karin Institute of Molecular Cell Biology

The Westfalian Wilhelms University of Muenster

EBERWINE Systems Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics USA James University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Philadelphia

MERCADER Institute of Anatomy Switzerland Nadia University of Bern

Sleep, the clock, and the brain: a neuromathematical approach

FORGER Dept. of Mathematics USA Daniel University of Michigan

Ann Arbor

BROWN Chronobiology and Sleep Research Group Switzerland Steven A. Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

University of Zurich

(USA)

UEDA Dept. of Systems Pharmacology Japan Hiroki R. Graduate School of Medicine

University of Tokyo

PROGRAM GRANTS

Quantitative dissection of molecular determinants of enhancer function

GOMPEL Dept. of Evolutionary Ecology Germany Nicolas Ludwig Maximilian University München (France)

Martinsried

PREIBISCH Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology Germany Stephan Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

Berlin

ROHS Remo

Depts. of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science

USA (Germany)

University of Southern California

Los Angeles

From molecular stochasticity to robust cell divisions

HAMANT Reproduction et Développement des Plantes France Olivier Ecole Normale Supérieure

Lyon

DUMAIS Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Chile Jacques Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Canada)

Viña del Mar

MJOLSNESS Dept. of Computer Science USA Eric University of California - Irvine

SCHNITTGER Dept. of Developmental Biology Germany Arp University of Hamburg

Biozentrum Klein Flottbek

Hamburg

New letters to the DNA alphabet

HANSEN Lars Hestbjerg

Environmental Microbial Genomics group Dept. of Environmental Science

Denmark

Aarhus University

Roskilde

DE CRECY-LAGARD Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Science USA Valerie University of Florida

Gainesville

MOINEAU Sylvain

Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Bioinformatics Laval University

Canada

Quebec

PROGRAM GRANTS

The architecture of the postsynaptic density

HOELZ Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering USA André California Institute of Technology (Germany)

Pasadena

CLARIDGE-CHANG Dept. of Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Singapore Adam Duke-NUS Medical School (Australia)

Singapore

COPLEY Richard

Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer UMR 7009 CNRS UPMC

France

Villefranche-sur-Mer

ROBINSON Structural Biology Lab Japan Robert Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science

Okayama University

(UK)

Can evolution minimize spurious signaling crosstalk to reach optimal performance?

LANDRY Dept. of Biology Canada Christian IBIS, Laval University

Quebec

TKACIK Gasper

Dept. of Theoretical Biophysics and Computational Neuroscience

Austria (Slovenia)

IST Austria

Klosterneuburg

VILLEN Dept. of Genome Sciences USA Judit University of Washington (Spain)

Seattle

Dynamics of collective cell migration on curved surfaces

LIM Biomedical Engineering / MechanoBioEngineering Lab. Singapore Chwee Teck National University of Singapore

DELACOUR Dept. of Cell Adhesion and Mechanics France Delphine Institut Jacques Monod - CNRS UMR 7592

Université Paris Diderot

KIM Dept. of Bioengineering USA Deok-Ho University of Washington

Seattle

PROST Physical Chemistry France Jacques Curie Institute – UMR 168

Paris

PROGRAM GRANTS

Fusion of evidence and expectation: untangling stimulus and prior information

in the visual cortex

ORBAN Computational System Neuroscience Lab Hungary Gergo MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics

Budapest

GOLSHANI Dept. of Neurology USA Peyman David Geffen School of Medicine

University of California - Los Angeles

LENGYEL Mate

Computational and Biological Learning Lab Dept. of Engineering

UK (Hungary)

University of Cambridge

SINGER Dept. of Neurophysiology Germany Wolf Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience

Frankfurt am Main

Structure and biophysics of disordered domains mediating RNP granules:

from atoms to cells

PAREKH Dept. of Molecular Spectroscopy Germany Sapun Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (USA)

Mainz

FAWZI Nicolas

Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology

USA

Brown University

Providence

Integrated view of photosynthetic control in algae in response

to light- and metabolic-signals

PETROUTSOS Dimitris

Cell & Plant Physiology Lab Institute of Biosciences and Biotechnologies

France (Greece)

CEA Grenoble - CNRS

GROSSMAN Dept. of Plant Biology USA Arthur R. Carnegie Institution for Science

Stanford University

HE Dept. of Chemistry USA Chuan The University of Chicago (China)

NIKOLOSKI Systems Biology and Mathematical Modeling Germany Zoran Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

Potsdam

PROGRAM GRANTS

Nanoscale heat transfer phenomena: new paradigm

for intra- and intercellular signalling and shaping

PLAKHOTNIK School of Mathematics and Physics Australia Taras The University of Queensland

St. Lucia, Brisbane

LANE Epithelial Biology Lab Singapore Ellen Birgitte Institute of Medical Biology (UK)

Singapore

SUZUKI Comprehensive Research Organization Japan Madoka Waseda University

Tokyo

ZEEB Cytotechnology Lab Russia Vadim Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics

Russian Academy of Sciences

Pushchino, Moscow region

Coupling of cell polarization and differentiation in organoids

RIVELINE Dept. of Cell Physics France Daniel IGBMC, Strasbourg University

Illkirch

GRAPIN-BOTTON Center for Stem Cell Biology (DanStem) Denmark Anne University of Copenhagen (France)

HONIGMANN Dept. of Bio-Membrane Organization and Function Germany Oscar Alf Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Dresden

SANO Dept. of Physics Japan Masaki The University of Tokyo

Muscle building: dissecting tension-driven myofibrillogenesis in vitro,

in vivo and in silico

SCHNORRER Muscle Dynamics France Frank Institute of Developmental Biology Marseille (IBDM)

Aix-Marseille Université

(Germany)

FRIEDRICH Biological Algorithms Group Germany Benjamin M. CFAED - Center For Advancing Electronics Dresden

Technical University Dresden

POURQUIE Dept. of Pathology, Dept. of Genetics USA Olivier Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harvard Medical School

(France)

Boston

PROGRAM GRANTS

Evolutionary mechanics of adhesion complexes

SOTOMAYOR Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry USA Marcos The Ohio State University (Chile)

Columbus

LYNCH Dept. of Human Genetics USA Vincent The University of Chicago

RICO Felix

Force Microscopy Group Adhesion Inflammation Lab (LAI)

France (Spain)

Aix-Marseille University

Mechanisms of chromatin reprogramming to totipotency

TACHIBANA-KONWALSKI Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Austria Kikue Austrian Academy of Sciences

Vienna

MIRNY Institute for Medical Engineering & Science and Physics USA Leonid Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge

PETERS Mitosis and Chromosome Biology Lab Austria Jan-Michael Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) (Germany)

Vienna

SAITOU Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology Japan Mitinori Graduate School of Medicine

Kyoto University

Defying the reproduction-maintenance trade-off: Role of diet

in long-lived termite reproductives

VASSEUR COGNET Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences France Mireille CNRS 7618, UPEC 7618, IRD 242, INRA 1392

Paris - Créteil

BORNBERG-BAUER Div. of Bioinformatics, School of Biological Sciences Germany Erich The Westfalian Wilhelms University of Muenster (Austria)

DE BEER Dept. of Microbiology South Africa Z. Wilhelm Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)

University of Pretoria

SUL Dept. of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology USA Hei Sook University of California - Berkeley

PROGRAM GRANTS

Disentangling trophic and sexual transmission dynamics in a ubiquitous parasite

VYAS School of Biological Sciences Singapore Ajai Nanyang Technological University (India)

Singapore

O'HANDLEY Ryan

Dept of Pathobiology, Infectious Disease and Public Health School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences

Australia

The University of Adelaide

Roseworthy

How cerebrospinal fluid physico-chemical properties impact

body axis formation and scoliosis

WYART Spinal Sensory Signaling lab France Claire Brain and Spine Institute (ICM)

Inserm U975, UMR UPMC CNRS 7225

Paris

GALLAIRE Lab of Fluid Mechanics and Instabilities (LFMI) Switzerland Francois Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL) (France)

LEHTINEN Dept. of Pathology USA Maria Boston Children's Hospital

YOUNG INVESTIGATORS

Detecting inequity in dendritic cells through bio-inspired synthetic T cells

BASTINGS Programmable Biomaterials Lab Switzerland Maartje Institute of Materials

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL)

(The Netherlands)

JUNGMANN Dept. of Physics Germany Ralf Ludwig Maximilian University München

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Martinsried

PARISH Cancer Immunology Program Australia Ian Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Melbourne

Evolutionary puzzles: Do microbes in the Atacama Desert harvest UV

as an energy source?

FREEDMAN Dept. of Bioengineering USA Kevin University of California-Riverside

AZUA-BUSTOS Dept. of Planetology and Habitability Spain Armando Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA (Chile)

Madrid

Tracing AID/APOBEC- and MSI-mediated hyper-mutagenesis

in the clonal evolution of gastric cancer

JU Young Seok

Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering and Lab. of Cancer Genomics

Korea

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Daejeon

KOO Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Austria Bon-Kyoung Austrian Academy of Sciences (Korea)

Vienna

SNIPPERT Dept. of Molecular Cancer Research The Netherlands Hugo University Medical Center Utrecht

Behavior-dependent optimization of the brain’s metrics for space and time

KITAMURA Dept. of Psychiatry USA Takashi University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Japan)

Dallas

ITO Memory and Navigation Circuits Group Germany Hiroshi Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (Japan)

Frankfurt am Main

KROPFF Neural Plasticity Lab Argentina Emilio Fundacion Instituto Leloir - IIBBA, CONICET

Buenos Aires

YOUNG INVESTIGATORS

Molecular control of cortical homeostasis and cell polarization

MURRELL Dept. of Biomedical Engineering USA Michael Yale University / Systems Biology Institute

West Haven

BANERJEE Shiladitya

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Institute for the Physics of Living Systems

UK (India)

University College London

DIZ-MUÑOZ Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit Germany Alba European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) (Spain)

Heidelberg

Remembering the future: Interactions between sensation, memory, and behavior

SALEEM Dept. of Experimental Psychology UK Aman University College London

BERMAN Dept. of Biology USA Gordon Emory University

Atlanta

MACKE Jakob

Centre for Cognitive Science and Institute for Psychology

Germany

Technical University Darmstadt

Visual circuit adaptations to natural environments and behaviors

in zebrafish and cichlids

THIELE Dept. of Biological Sciences Canada Tod University of Toronto Scarborough

Toronto

ARRENBERG Aristides

Systems Neurobiology Group Institute for Neurobiology

Germany

Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience University of Tuebingen

COOPER Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences USA Emily Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH

JUNTTI Dept. of Biology USA Scott University of Maryland

College Park

YOUNG INVESTIGATORS

Active morphological colloids for probing and tailoring intracellular antigen

processing

VAN DEN BOGAART Dept. of Tumor Immunology The Netherlands Geert Radboud University Medical Center

Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences

Nijmegen

SACANNA Dept. of Chemistry USA Stefano New York University

THUTUPALLI Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines India Shashi National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)

Tata Institute for Fundamental Research

Bangalore