The FBF is pleased to sponsor 21 outstanding projects in 2024-25, with awards totaling $255,482.
Crysten Blaby, UC Berkeley
Bahia Khalfaoui Hassani, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour
Remodeling photosynthesis to combat hunger
Johan Leveau, UC Davis
Matthieu Barret, The Research Institute on Horticulture and Seeds
The roles of priority effects in microbial transmission to developing seeds and microbial seeds impacts on seedling establishment
Meng-meng Fu, UC Berkeley
Martine Cohen-Salmon, College de France
Exploration of mRNA localization and translation in glial cells
Elizabeth Purdom, UC Berkeley
Pierre Neuvial, Université Paul Sabatier
Post-Selection Inference Challenges in scRNA-Seq data from Patient Cohorts
Juan-Chau Chien, UC Berkeley
Arnaud Pothier, XLIM Research Institute, UMR 7252 CNRS-Limoges University
Flow-EIT: A Label-free Electrical-impedance-tomography-based Flow Cytometry for Diagnosis and Cell Therapy
Tony Feng, UC Berkeley
Matteo Tamiozzo, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
New horizons for Shimura varieties
Bruce Buffet, UC Berkeley
Emmanuel Dormy, ENS Paris
Polarity Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field
Richard Ivry, UC Berkeley
Florent Lebon, Université de Bourgogne
Neural modulation resulting from an innovative form of non-invasive brain stimulation
Simon Knapen, Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory
Quentin Bonnefoy, Université de Strasbourg
Discovering beyond the Standard Model physics in a future Higgs factory
Roderick Clark, Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory
Benoit Gall, Strasbourg University
Next Generation Superheavy Element Experiments
Paolo Calafiura, Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory
Jan Stark, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier and CNRS/IN2P3
Geometric Deep Learning for Particle Tracking at the Large Hadron Collider
Brian Kurt Fujikawa, Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory
Benjamin Schmidt, CEA Saclay
CUPID-CROSS-BINGO Neutrinoless double-beta decay search with cryogenic calorimeters
Inna Vishik, UC Davis
Andrea Gauzzi, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Superconductivity in Cuprates Beyond the Superconducting Dome
Shujie Li, Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory
David Rousseau, CNRS/IN2P3 and U Paris Saclay
Developing a charged particle track reconstruction software for the Electron-Ion Collider
Xavier Darzacq, UC Berkeley
Ignaco Izeddin, ESPCI Paris
Capturing the multi-scale nature of life at the molecular level
Stefania Pandolfo, UC Berkeley
Nathalie Delbard, Université de Lile
History is never sure: Memory, Phantasm, and Restitution between the Two Shores of the Mediterranean. The Afterlives of Soliman al-Halabi, 1798-1801
Déborah Blocker, UC Berkeley
Anne-Régent Susini, Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle
The Arts of Death and their Artification: funeral orations, ephemeral funeral architecture and aristocratic tombs in early modern France and Italy (16th-17th centuries)
Asad Q. Ahmed, UC Berkeley
Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
The Mughal Empire and the Neighboring World: Intellectual and Material Exchanges
Seth Frey, UC Davis
Chahab Nastar, Learning Planet Institute
The Governance Challenges of a Planetary University
Therese Peffer, UC Berkeley
Nathalie Ortar, Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat-University of Lyon
Climate Migration: Justice, Inclusion, and AI Solutions in the U.S. and France
Lawrence Rosenthal, UC Berkeley
Olivier Burtin, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens)
Towards a New History of U.S. Fascism