🧪 Applying for an HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship?
Join our webinar on how to navigate the 2027 HFSP Fellowships application process!
Two sessions available:
🕘 25 March, 09:00 & 16:00 CET
🔗 Register: zurl.co/fO8Ga

#HFSP #ResearchFellowships #FrontierScience #sts

So many thanks to co-first authors Hongyan Hao, @xiangyiding.bsky.social, and Daniel Elnatan! And to our funders at NIH/NIGMS and @alleninstitute.org! #mechanobiology #frontierscience #Celegans

At #HFSP, #interdisciplinarity isn’t an add-on: #Biology meets #Physics, #Chemistry, #Engineering, #Maths... Each field must be essential to the question!
Do you already have the right mix?
Applications are open.
🔗 zurl.co/mI8j8
#HFSPResearchGrants #FrontierScience

❄️ Season’s Greetings from all of us at HFSP!

Wishing our global community of scientists, partners, and supporters a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring start to the New Year. Thank you for being part of the frontier science journey! 🌍🧪

#HFSP #GlobalScience #FrontierScience

GPT‑5.2 aces the FrontierScience test but trips on real‑world research tasks. How does it stack up against Gemini 3 Pro and Claude Opus 4.5? Dive into the numbers and what this means for high‑reasoning AI. #GPT52 #FrontierScience #ResearchBenchmarks

🔗 aidailypost.com/news/gpt-52-...

OpenAI just launched FrontierScience – a super tough new benchmark for PhD-level science reasoning in physics, chemistry & biology.

It's packed with olympiad-style problems and real research tasks to show exactly where AI models shine... or totally flop?

#AI #FrontierScience #openai #technews

Incredible work pushing the frontiers of 3D imaging in living systems! 🔬
Proud to support this kind of innovative, high-impact research. Congrats on this achievement!

#HFSPFellowships #Microscopy #FrontierScience

🧪 Starting in 1 hour!
Join our HFSP Research Grant webinar today at 13:00 CET with Almut Kelber & Guntram Bauer.
👉 zurl.co/FekdN
#HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

🧪 Last chance to register!
HFSP’s Research Grant webinar is this week – 19 Nov, 13:00 CET 🎓
Get tips from Almut Kelber & Guntram Bauer on frontier science + LoI prep.
👉 Register: zurl.co/TrT7K
#HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

How can you make your HFSP Research Grant proposal stand out?
Join our webinar on 19 Nov, 13:00 CET to learn what HFSP looks for in frontier science + tips for your Letter of Intent.
🧪 Register now: zurl.co/Q8v9f
#HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

🧪 Meet the HFSP experts behind the HFSP Research Grants!
Join Almut Kelber and Guntram Bauer for a live webinar on frontier science, HFSP rules, and crafting your Letter of Intent on 19 November at 13:00 CET.
🔗 Register: zurl.co/eclSU
#HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

Thinking of applying for the next HFSP Research Grant call?
Join our HFSP Webinar on 19 Nov, 13:00 CET with Almut Kelber & Guntram Bauer for insights into frontier science and the 2027 application process.

🔗 Register: zurl.co/hp8OE
#HFSP #FrontierScience #sts 🧪

How can a silly-putty-like substance help us understand cancer cells?

Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells.

@ucscscience.bsky.social

Sex hormone morphogenesis: a new frontier in studying organ development In this project, researchers will develop an in vitro platform that combines stem cell models of human development, high-throughput genome editing at the single cell level, and novel machine learning ...

How do sex hormones influence organ development?

ADIs Mijo Simunovic, @elhamazizi.bsky.social, and José L. McFaline-Figueroa are searching for the answers by making an in-vitro platform that combines stem cells, genome editing, and AI. #FrontierScience

🔗 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...

Therapeutic implications: target ribosome production pathways, not just nuclear proteins.
@danstarrucdavis.bsky.social (6/6)
#CellBiology #MuscularDystrophy #FrontierScience

Understanding the effects of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT) on immune function using a systems immunology approach The Allen Distinguished Investigator program provides three-year grants between $1M and $1.5M to individuals and teams

How does testosterone and estradiol impact the immune system?

ADIs Boris Novakovic, @adacheung.bsky.social, Rachel Davey, and Musa Mhlanga are looking for clues by studying the immune responses of people undergoing hormone therapy.

#FrontierScience

alleninstitute.org/division/fro...

García-Ruiz’ Lab at DIPC García-Ruiz laboratory's at DIPC mission is to explore frontiers. No just the frontiers of science but also the frontiers between different sciences and between science, art, and the mind. All those f...

🌐 Explore his projects, publications and upcoming events: garciaruizdipc.org

#GarciaRuizLab #DIPC #FrontierScience #Crystallography #ScienceAndArt #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Congrats to @xiangyiding.bsky.social et al. on their new study on the intense cellular dance happening in worm cells! 🕺

Dive into the #FrontierScience of organelle crowd control. 👇

Congrats to first authors
@xiangyiding.bsky.social, Hongyan Hao, and Daniel Elnatan! This was a fantastic collaboration with
Liam Holt at NYU and the Starr
@danstarrucdavis.bsky.social
-Luxton lab. Many thanks to
@alleninstitute.org nstitute
and @NIGMS for funding this work. #Frontierscience

Optical tools for visualizing sex hormones as drivers of dynamic internal states The Allen Distinguished Investigator program provides three-year grants between $1M and $1.5M to individuals and teams

We know hormones impact the brain, but what if we could see it happening on a cellular level? 🧠👀

@neurrriot.bsky.social, Stephanie Correa, and Ed Van Veen are making a platform that directly observes relationship b/w hormones and brain state. #FrontierScience

🧠📈 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...

Real-time label-free dynamic imaging of extracellular vesicles in live tissues Researchers Marni and Stephen Boppart will use next-generation, multimodal, nonlinear optical microscopy techniques to obtain real-time, dynamic images of EVs in living tissues and use this advanced p...

Aging. It happens to all of us yet we don’t fully understand how it happens.

Marni and Stephen Boppart from @ahsillinois.bsky.social are developing a new microscopy platform that can illuminate the role of extracellular vesicles in cellular aging. #FrontierScience alleninstitute.org/division/fro...

Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells - Nature Directional, non-vesicular lipid transport is responsible for fast, species-selective lipid sorting into organelle membranes.

🗺️🔬 A first-of-its-kind map of lipid traffic is demystifying an important yet elusive aspect of how cells work.

Read the study, out now in @nature.com, by Allen Distinguished Investigators Alf Honigmann, @nadlerlab.bsky.social, and collaborators: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#FrontierScience

Blood-brain Barrier communication via extracellular vesicles underlying brain function and behavior The Allen Distinguished Investigator program provides three-year grants between $1M and $1.5M to individuals and teams

The blood-brain barrier is the brain’s bodyguard, keeping out toxic substances. But it also blocks potential treatments.

ADI Shinichi Kano is exploring how extracellular vesicles could deliver life-saving therapies into the brain. #FrontierScience

🧠📈 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...

How does marine life sense and respond to their changing world? The Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments is diving (literally) into this #FrontierScience. 🐋🧠

🔗 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...

📸 Dr. David Kline, Erik Jepsen, UCSD, @adc-neuroenv.bsky.social

📸 The faces, the moments, the science 🧪

The official photo album from #HFSPmtg2025 is live! Relive three days of global connections, bold ideas, and behind-the-scenes memories in Melbourne 🌏

Can you spot yourself? 👀
zurl.co/YibYo

#HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

Chemically active membranes in the generation of cell shape This research project funded by the Allen Distinguised Investigators program challenges the assumption that the cell membrane is a passive material, changing shape only when pushed or pulled.

Using simulations, synthetic cells, and archaeal cell communities, Andela Saric, @kgoepfrich.bsky.social, and @buzzbaum.bsky.social are studying how cell membranes allow cells to change shape, exchange materials, and respond to their environment. #FrontierScience

alleninstitute.org/division/fro...

David and Goliath at the cell surface: Photo-crosslinkable lipid derivatives to control membrane mechanics The Allen Distinguished Investigator program provides three-year grants between $1M and $1.5M to individuals and teams.

Does the cell membrane play a bigger role in cell activities than we previously thought?

ADIs Alba Diz-Muñoz and Carsten Schultz are approaching this #FrontierScience question from a new angle by making a toolkit to change the lipid composition of cell membranes.

alleninstitute.org/division/fro...

Mechanobiology tools for dissecting drivers of membrane mechanics, form, and function The Allen Distinguished Investigator program provides three-year grants between $1M and $1.5M to individuals and teams.

How does the cell membrane adapt to its environment?

Allen Distinguished Investigators Amy Rowat and Douglas Robinson are developing CRISPR-powered technologies to identify proteins that impact how the cell membrane adapts to physical stress. #FrontierScience

🔗 alleninstitute.org/division/fro...

Data-driven modeling of inter-organelle dynamic interactions throughout differentiation with multispectral and label free live imaging With funding from the Allen Distinguished Investigators program, these investigators hypothesize that complex and dynamic patterns of organelle connection and communication are distinctive across diff...

How do organelles change over the course of a stem cell’s life?

ADIs @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social, @assafzaritsky.bsky.social , and @mattersoflight.bsky.social are using ML and cell engineering to explore the #FrontierScience of stem cell differentiation.
alleninstitute.org/division/fro...