The Kavli Foundation

Neurogenomic Adaptations to Variable Environments <p>Join speakers Hans Hofmann, PhD, and Kimberly Rosvall, PhD, for the third session of a collaborative series by the Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation. </p>

Join us August 20 at 12pm ET for "Neurogenomic Adaptations to Variable Environments," a @sfn.org webinar featuring Hans Hofmann and Kimberly Rosvall. Learn how organisms cope with change and what it reveals about plasticity.

Register: bit.ly/3HeL1kv

#KavliNeuro #NeuroSky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

The Kavli Berkeley Discovery Fellows program at Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) is a new approach to teach research independence to help students become leaders in nanoscience, energy conversion, utilization, and efficiency. Learn more: bit.ly/3UOe3dM

#KavliNano

@grassfoundation.bsky.social

@mblscience.bsky.social

Kavli-Grass Fellows Christian Hoffmann & Kyra Schapiro presented on their Grass Laboratory summer research projects at ‪@mblscience.bsky.social‬.

Their work will uncover principles around how nervous systems of marine organisms respond to changing environmental conditions.

https://bit.ly/4lYMQRI

Announcing this year's Kavli Institute Collaboration Kickstarter grants - innovative projects forging connections between researchers at different Kavli Institutes, even outside of the same field.

Learn more about the awardees http://bit.ly/4oh6r12

Four Kavli IPMU researchers receive the Frontier of Science Award 30 July, 2024 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI)

Congratulations to four researchers from Kavli IPMU for receiving 2025 Frontier of Science Awards.

#KavliInstitutes #KavliIPMU

http://bit.ly/41k12w6

Photo details: Schematic of the on-chip ℏBAR device. Art produced by Enrique Sahagun

New from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TU Delft: a large-amplitude phonon state coupled to a superconducting #qubit, generating a high-overtone bulk acoustic resonator. A missing tool for basic #QuantumScience #QuantumInformation.

#KavliNano

Learn more: rdcu.be/eyo0m

Our President & CEO Dr. Friend speaks at the "Reimagining STEMM Graduate Education & Postdoctoral Career Development" summit presented by @education.nationalacademies.org

Dr. Friend discusses the importance of bolstering the younger generation of scientists, the future of the scientific enterprise.

Research coming out of the @kavlioxford.bsky.social and the @umich.edu has led to the development of next-generation class of soft microrobots!

These tiny devices offer a major step forward in precision medicine and therapeutic delivery.

Learn more from @science.org: bit.ly/4md4IYS

#KavliNano

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is celebrating its 7th anniversary this year!

TESS was developed and built by members of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and has made exciting discoveries beyond its primary mission.

http://bit.ly/456MRNn

👏🙌 we are honored by our partnerships! 👏🙌

Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer school in Eresfjord, Norway (July 8th - 26th, 2024)

The Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience summer school is wrapping up another successful season, equipping early-career researchers with cutting-edge tools to model and analyze neural networks.

Join us next year in beautiful Norway!

Learn more: bit.ly/44JNxYU

#KavliNeuro #CompNeuro

This year, the Kavli Institute of NanoScience at TU Delft celebrated its 20th anniversary.

This milestone was observed during the annual Kavli Day, honoring the history of outstanding nanoscience achievements and continued partnership between The Kavli Foundation and TU Delft.

Photo cred: TU Delft

Congrats on another successful #NeuroDataReHack!

Inspiring to see the creativity & collaboration around open neurophys data. Attendees are invited to apply for the Kavli NeuroData Discovery Award - a one-year grant supporting innovative #DataReuse.

Excited to see your ideas! #KavliNeuro #OpenData

Quantum thermalization and Floquet engineering in a spin ensemble with a clock transition - Nature Physics Using Floquet engineering, an ensemble of ytterbium-171 ions in an yttrium orthovanadate host crystal provides a platform for studying the dynamics of different quantum many-body models, including the...

A group at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at @caltech.edu has designed a system to control and study millions of interacting spins, providing a test bed for pure spin-exchange physics problems and for developing new quantum technologies.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#KavliNano #QuantumMaterials

Do Light and Darkness Shape the Patterns on Shells? A Grass Fellow Investigates | Marine Biological Laboratory Kyra Schapiro knows how to find a good shell. A self-professed sheller – “ Yes, it’s a noun,” she said – Schapiro has amassed hundreds of seashells. “It’s the patterns and the beauty” that compels her...

2025 Kavli-Grass Fellow Kyra Schapiro is spending this summer in the Grass Lab (@grassfoundation.bsky.social) understanding how environmental factors shape shell patterning in Zebra nerite snails and how the nervous system might control this process.

Learn more here: bit.ly/4llySJ7

Long standing issues coupled with recent funding disruptions have led to growing challenges in training grad students and postdoc scholars to be the STEM workforce.

We are delighted to sponsor @nationalacademies.org summit, which will highlight these issues.

Register here: bit.ly/44PUbM6

New from Kavli ENSI, a nano-material ink printed on films to make flexible infrared detectors.

A nice example of the #ScienceOfScaleup, the science needed to bridge the challenging gap between the amazing properties materials at the nanoscale and benefit at the human scale.

http://bit.ly/3U7FOh3

Congratulations to The Kavli Prize Astrophysics Laureate, Conny Aerts, for her appointment to the governing body of the European Research Council (erc.europa.eu‬)

Learn more: http://bit.ly/4nxMO4m

We are thrilled to announce that Robert (Bob) Conn, President Emeritus of The Kavli Foundation and Dean & Professor Emeritus at UCSD, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Vannevar Bush Award, the National Science Board’s highest honor.

Congrats!

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Quantum at 100: Honoring achievement, envisioning tomorrow The Kavli Foundation celebrates the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology

A central theme in quantum mechanics is that particles confined in nano sized boxes do fascinating things!

We salute scientists who, driven by curiosity and ingenuity, continue to unlock the mysteries of the nano world.

bit.ly/4kreMfh & bit.ly/46xDLKA

#IYQ2025 #KavliNano @carlospaya.bsky.social

Congrats to Abraham Amiri, Kavli Scholar, for his graduation from UCLA, where he earned his masters degree in planetary science, studying under Kavli Prize laureate, David Jewitt.

From his childhood star gazing in Afghanistan to where he is today - what a journey he's been on. http://bit.ly/45QMRC6

Read this interview in @@thetransmitter.bsky.social between @callimcflurry.bsky.social and @angiemicha.bsky.social‬, who shares about what it took to cultivate research on the relationship between climate change and the nervous system. http://bit.ly/44rRhwN

Congrats on your new blue check 🎉

We are excited to announce The Kavli Prize's Call for Nominations!

We're accepting nominations for the 2026 #KavliPrize. What breakthroughs in basic science research will you nominate?

Laureates will be awarded a $1,000,000 prize. Nominate someone: kavliprize.org

#CallforNominations #Research

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A team of researchers at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at #TUDelft report coherent transport of spin states in silicon with breakthrough fidelity.

Learn more here: https://bit.ly/44mvDtU
Paper: https://bit.ly/45NvgLn

#KavliNano #QuantumFuture #KavliFoundation

This week happening in Lucca, Italy from June 29-July 4, is the Kavli-supported Gordon Research Conference in Neuroethology.

Speakers include Kavli grantees Wolfgang Stein and Jeffery Riffell, who investigate how environmental change is impacting the nervous system.

#KavliNeuro #neuroscience

What is the Rubin Observatory and what makes it special?

Join KIPAC on Tuesday, July 1 to learn more.

Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Time: 7:00-8:45pm PDT
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 200 and virtually via YouTube.

Secure your spot and RSVP: bit.ly/3ZORuc3