The FBF is pleased to sponsor 19 outstanding projects in 2019-20, with awards totaling $184,020.
Elizabeth Abel, Department of English, UC Berkeley
Claire Davison, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf's Resonance
Magali Barbieri, Department of Demography, UC Berkeley
Hippolyte d'Albis, Paris School of Economics
Geographic variations in the length of life: Comparing France and the United States
Andreas Bäumler, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis
Simon Labarthe, MaIAGE (MIA), INRA, Centre de Jouy-en-Josas
Experimental and mathematical models articulation: a bifocal lens to study the ecology of the colon microbiota
Brenda Eskenazi, Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Rémy Slama, CNRS / Université Grenoble Alpes
The impact of the pregnancy exposome on birth outcomes
Claude Fischer, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Guillaume Favre, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Evolutions of personal networks across time: A comparison between France and the USA
Rosemary Gillespie, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley
Julien Pétillon, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1
The hidden side of Heaven: evolutionary story of Hawaiian lava caves’ wolf spiders
Edgar Knobloch, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Benjamin Favier, Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre - CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université
Large-scale structures in anisotropic turbulence
Ksenia Krasileva, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Thomas Kroj, UMR BGPI – Biologie et Genetique des Interactions Plantes-Parasites, INRA Montpellier
Bioinformatic identification and functional analysis of disease resistance and susceptibility genes to fungal diseases in wheat and rice
Massimo Mazzotti, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society / Department of History, UC Berkeley
Giovanna Cifoletti, Centre Alexandre-Koyré, EHESS, Paris
Algebraic language and the algorithm: Art of thinking, thinking machines, and machines' thinking
Barbara Romanowicz, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
Hélène Barucq, Magique 3D - INRIA, Université de Pau
Development and Application of Advanced Seismic Imaging Techniques for Key Target Structures in the Deep Earth
Richmond Sarpong, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Virginie Vidal, CNRS / Chimie ParisTech
Enhancing the Medicinal Activity of Piperidine Derivatives by Late-Stage Derivatization
Uros Seljak, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Benjamin Wandelt, Institut Lagrange de Paris
Optimally mapping the dark matter in the universe with the CMB
Anna Serra-Llobet, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Johnny Douvinet, Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Département Géographie, Université d'Avignon et des Pays du Vaucluse
From epic wildfires to epic flash-floods: Rethinking flood risk management in an era of extremes
David Shuster, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
Kerry Gallagher, Géosciences-Rennes, Université de Rennes 1
Improving interpretations of thermochronometric data through updates to modeling programs and user education
Nicholas Sitar, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Cino Viggiani, Laboratoire 3SR, Université Grenoble Alpes
Characterization of Depositional Fabric of Sands Using 3-D X-Ray Computed Tomography (3-D XRCT)
Jeremy Thorner, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Aurélie Bertin, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Paris
Dissecting the function of budding yeast septin Shs1 throughout cell division
K. Birgitta Whaley, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Pierre Rouchon, Mathématiques et Systèmes, MINES ParisTech
Quantum feedback control for information processing
Da Yang, Department of Land, Air & Water Resources, UC Davis
Caroline Muller, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
Understanding Convective Organization in the Tropical Atmosphere
Truman Young, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Elise Buisson, IMBE – Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie, Avignon Université
Taking priority effects into account in restoration and invasive species control field experiments