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Ninth call for applications IMPRS for Neural Circuits now open
Students call apply to the program till December 1, 2018. We also offer a fast track option. [more]
Raunak Basu (Ito Lab) has received funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers will support Raunak for a period of 24 months as of March 2019, during which he expects to generate more insight into a long standing question in neuroscience. [more]
Laura Bernáez Timón (Tchumatchenko Lab) has been awarded a Fellowship from the Joachim Herz Foundation
Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science offers funding for two years. [more]
Korbinian Brodmann returns to Frankfurt and MPI-BR
On September 14, the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research opened an exhibition about life and work of the neuroanatomist Korbinian Brodmann. [more]
Blood vessels instruct brain development
Neurovascular communication in the brain [more]
How we decide on where to go
Neuroscientists discover a mechanism for brain-wide communication when selecting a route towards a destination [more]
Julijana Gjorgjieva has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Research Group Leader Julijana Gjorgjieva at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research has received this prestigious grant for the NeuroDevo project. She is one of the 19 laureates currently working at the Max Planck Society.... [more]
Cell type and environment influence protein turnover in the brain
New findings provide insight on how the components of different cells in the brain are altered, which could affect our abilities to learn and form memories. [more]
Marina Elaine Wosniack (postdoc at the Gjorgjieva Lab) receives a Capes-Humboldt Research Fellowship
This two-year grant will support her research project on the neural circuits underlying Drosophila (fruit fly) larvae locomotion. We congratulate her on this great effort. [more]
Tracing cerebral cortex evolution, cell by cell
Molecular atlases of turtle and lizard brains shed light on the evolution of our own brain [more]
Of men and mice
Max Planck Researchers identify rapid neuromodulation of interneurons in human neocortex [more]
Eleventh IMPRS student graduates
On April 19, Kauê Costa successfully defended his thesis, titled "KChIP4a: a biophysical modulator of learning from disappointment" at the Goethe University (Frankfurt in Germany). [more]
Non-coding RNA reveals its secrets
Scientists from the Schuman Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research have investigated the variety of structures and functions in non-coding parts of messenger RNA (mRNA) from brain cells. These untranslated regions... [more]
Max Planck neuroscientist Hiroshi Ito is awarded a prestigious grant from the Human Frontiers Science Program
Research Group Leader Hiroshi Ito (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany) has been awarded a Young Investigators Grant from the Human Frontiers Science Program of more than one million USD in total. Together... [more]
Neural networks: All versatility in one model
Max Planck researchers Nataliya Kraynyukova and Tatjana Tchumatchenko have explored how the structure of neural networks is related to their ability to produce a set of fundamental cortical functions. They have shown that only... [more]
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