7/ Awardee Emanuele Cocucci has a bold hypothesis about extracellular vesicle formation: bulky proteins play a key role in crowding and bending membranes. His project could reshape how we understand membrane organization and remodeling.
🍾 Congrats Dr. Cocucci!
🙏 #HFScout Jeanne Stachowiak

6/ Awardee Catherine Mitchell is measuring ocean life from space 🛰️. She's developing a way to quantify zooplankton & their metabolism using satellite images alone - work that can transform our understanding of ocean ecosystems.
🎉 Congrats Dr. Mitchell! @bigelowlab.bsky.social
🙏 #HFScout Angel White

5/ Awardee @burnsajohn.bsky.social is bringing radiolarians (single-celled marine organisms) into the modern genomic🧬 era by establishing a novel radiolarian model system together with the community! 🙌
🥳 Congrats Dr. Burns! @bigelowlab.bsky.social
🙏 #HFScout @prakashlab.bsky.social

4/ #DYK that only some immune knowledge gets transferred from moms to breastmilk 🤱? Awardee @cicacanesso.bsky.social thinks the mammary gland plays a critical role in regulating this selective transfer.
🎉 Congrats Dr. Canesso! @einsteinmededu.bsky.social
🙏 #HFScout @pipethero.bsky.social

3/ Awardee Carl Denard is setting out to map proteases to the substrates they can cleave ✂️ by widening the search space to include completely novel substrates. His work could transform how we understand and reprogram protease function.
🍾 Congrats Dr. Denard!
🙏 #HFScout Kris Prather

2/ What if a new job changed your personality & extended your life? 🤯 Harpegnathos ants 🐜 do exactly that. Awardee Janko Gospocic is studying the epigenetics behind their caste-transitions, which could unlock new ways to reverse brain aging.
🎉 Congrats Dr. Gospocic!
🙏 #HFScout @planaria1.bsky.social

💫 Meet our latest awardees, who are pushing the boundaries of what we know about brain aging, protease specificity, immune inheritance, ocean food webs, & cell physics. Learn more about their projects: bit.ly/HFAwardees.

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