Grass Community Guide for SfN 2025
For those traveling to the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, you can catch up with Grass Fellows and their recent work. Below is a working list of sessions featuring Grass Fellows and activities supported by The Grass Foundation. To request an addition to this list please email info@grassfoundation.org.
Additionally, The Grass Foundation is hosting the Grass Social on Sunday, November 16, from 6:00-9:00. To request an invitation with full details, please email info@grassfoundation.org.
Lastly, be sure to come vist us at Booth 3816 in the Exhibitor Hall.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
- Session PSTR014 – Altered Energy Homeostasis in Alzheimer’s Disease
- Peter Koulen – 1999 Grass Fellow
2:00-3:00pm Poster
PSTR014.10 / D63 – Oxidative stress differentially affects the expression levels of proteins controlling mitochondrial and metabolic function in neural progenitor cells and neurons derived from neural progenitor cells depending on differentiation status
- Peter Koulen – 1999 Grass Fellow
Sunday, November 16, 2025
- Session PSTR059 – Synaptic Plasticity: Short-Term Dynamics and Homeostatic Adaptation
- Dennis Weingarten – 2024 Grass Fellow
9:00-10:00am Poster
PSTR059.02 / C4 – Synaptotagmin-3 and -7 mediate short-term facilitation via dynamic vesicle recruitment to the readily releasable pool
- Dennis Weingarten – 2024 Grass Fellow
- Session PSTR105 – Presynaptic Mechanisms, Organization, and Structure II
- George Augustine – 1979 Grass Fellow
4:00-5:00pm Poster
PSTR105.04 / B43 – Mobilization of reserve pool synaptic vesicles by synapsin phosphorylation
- George Augustine – 1979 Grass Fellow
- Session PSTR120 – Hair Cells and the Periphery
- Oscar Arenas Sabogal – 2020-2021 Grass Fellow and Grass Lab Associate Director (2023-2025)
4:00-5:00pm Poster
PSTR120.12 / K14 – Ancient Balance Organs: The Role of PIEZO channels in the Ctenophore Statocyst
- Oscar Arenas Sabogal – 2020-2021 Grass Fellow and Grass Lab Associate Director (2023-2025)
Monday, November 17, 2025
- Session NANO024 – Connectomics
- Christophe Dupre – 2016 Grass Fellow and 2020 Grass Lab Associate Director
8:00-8:15am Talk
NANO024.01 – Connectomic dissection of a circuit for locomotory behavior in Hydra vulgaris - Paul Katz – 1988 Grass Fellow
11:15-11:30 Talk
NANO024.14 – Two neural circuit motifs extracted from volume EM images of the rhinophore ganglion of the gastropod mollusc, Berghia stephanieae
- Christophe Dupre – 2016 Grass Fellow and 2020 Grass Lab Associate Director
- Session PSTR188 – Neural Mechanisms: Adaptive Choice
- Ruidong Chen – 2019 Grass Fellow
9:00-11:00 Poster
PSTR188.14 / MM17 – Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex Add to Itinerary
- Ruidong Chen – 2019 Grass Fellow
- Session LBP046 – H.03. Motivation
- Junichi Yoshida – 2018 Grass Fellow
10:00-11:00 Poster
LBP046.08 / LBP103 – AgRP Neuronal Suppression by Spontaneous Movement Encodes Exercise Reinforcement
- Junichi Yoshida – 2018 Grass Fellow
- LEC14 – Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture and Ceremony for the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neurosciences
- David. D. Ginty, 2025 Albert and Ellen Grass Lecturer
Brendan Ito, 2025 Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neurscience Recipient
3:00-4:30pm
- David. D. Ginty, 2025 Albert and Ellen Grass Lecturer
- Session PSTR236 – Social Communication and Behavior Across Species
- Adriane Otopalik – 2017 Fellow
4:00-5:00pm Poster
PSTR236.17 / FF2 – Distinct social behavioral functions of P1 neuronal subtypes in male fruit flies
- Adriane Otopalik – 2017 Fellow
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
- Session PSTR258 – Comparative and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Brain Development and Molecular Specialization
- Paul Katz – 1988 Grass Fellow
9:00-10:00am Poster
PSTR258.02 / B3 – Transcriptomic analysis of molluscan chemosensory transduction genes suggests use of novel G proteins and ionotropic receptors
- Paul Katz – 1988 Grass Fellow
- Session PSTR345 – Rhythmic Pattern Generation Invertebrates
- Mel Coleman – 1996 Grass Fellow, Grass Lab Director (2019-2021) and former Grass Trustee
2:00-3:00pm Poster
PSTR345.02 / Y9 – Modulation of CPG feedback changes rhythm generation locus
- Mel Coleman – 1996 Grass Fellow, Grass Lab Director (2019-2021) and former Grass Trustee
- Session MIN33 – Cryo-Electron Tomography in Neurobiology
- Shigeki Watanabe – 2014 Grass Fellow
2:00-4:30 Session Chair - Kristina Lippman – 2017 Grass Fellow
4:00-4:20 Talk
- Shigeki Watanabe – 2014 Grass Fellow
Wednesdsay, November 19, 2025
- Session PSTR415 – Grid Cells and Spatially Modulated Cells
- Horst Obenhaus – 2022 Grass Fellow
11:00am-12:00pm Poster
PSTR415.12 / QQ12 – Developmental Trajectories of Functional Cell Types in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex
- Horst Obenhaus – 2022 Grass Fellow
- Session NANO054 – Novel Biochemical and Molecular Techniques
- Caroline Fecher – 2019 Grass Fellow
2:30-2:45pm Talk
NANO054.07 – Tagless MitoIP for the immunocapture of neuronal mitochondria from peripheral tissues
- Caroline Fecher – 2019 Grass Fellow