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The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) promotes international collaboration in basic research focused on the elucidation of the sophisticated and complex mechanisms of living organisms.

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Submission deadline: 30 March 2020
Initiation deadline: 19 March 2020
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20th HFSP Awardees Meeting
Leuven, Belgium
5 - 8 July 2020
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HFSP Frontier Science
Exploring the navigational senses of birds
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HFSP Awardees since 1990

Seabirds in flight

Exploring the navigational senses of birds

Seabirds have the longest migrations on Earth and can travel 8 million km in a lifetime, yet how they navigate across a…

MINEFLUX image of the nuclear pore complex

Resolution revolution

MINFLUX, a new super-resolution microscopy technique, achieved an unprecedented optical resolution in 3D, dual-color…

Moth wings

Transparency improves camouflage in terrestrial prey

Why have some cryptic moths evolved partly transparent wings? Experiments monitoring survival of artificial moths…

Drone

Novel method to use insect antennae as odour sensor in a flying robot

We have designed a special algorithm for identifying olfactory information from an insect antenna and shown how these…