2018 Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians Awardees Announced
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The parasitic wasp Megaphragma amalphitanum, one of the smallest insects, can serve as a stripped-down model of neural connections. Read More
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Lecture Cytotoxic T Cells and HIV: Improving Upon a Partially Effective Immune Response to Control or Cure Infection
Brad Jones, Ph.D.
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Senior Fellows are distinguished scientists based in New York City. Junior Fellows are outstanding young scientists who receive support from the foundation for three years to conduct independent research at an institution of higher learning in New York City, with no teaching obligations.
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What We're Reading
October 18
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Coming to Terms with Six Years in Science:Obsession, Isolation and Moments of Wonder (STAT)
In this heartfelt essay, an MIT graduate student writes of obsessively laboring to understand the intricacies of frog embryos and how his "monomania" affected his personal life. His adviser had a saying: “You have to believe that Sisyphus was happy.”
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New Microscope Offers 4-D Look at Embryonic Development in Living Mice (HHMI News)
With the development of an adaptive, multiview light sheet microscope and a suite of computational tools, researchers have captured the first view of early organ development inside the mouse embryo.
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Writing When on the Autism Spectrum (The Open Notebook)
A writer finds out she is on the autism spectrum and comes to understand the challenges it has posed as well as the benefits it has offered.
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Sarah T. Stewart of the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Awarded 2018 MacArthur Fellowship (MacArthur Foundation)
Her work advances new theories of how celestial collisions give birth to planets and their natural satellites.
