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Senior Research Symposium Spotlights FAU High School Students’ Science at MPFI

MPFI Researcher Receives Prominent Award to Launch New Lab

MPFI Names New COO

How Studying Fruit Flies Enhances STEM in South Florida Schools

Sunposium 2023: International Neuroscience Researchers Converge in South Florida March 6-8

Jupiter Community High School Team Triumphs at 2023 Brain Bee Challenge Championship at MPFI

Enhancing Diversity in the Neuroscience Workforce: Insights from NIH Director Dr. Marguerite Matthews

Max Planck Florida Awarded Platinum Seal of Transparency

Science Meets Music at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

Finding Answers Faster: MPFI Researcher Receives Grant for Computational Neuroscience Fellowship

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Fund Imaging Training Project Involving MPFI Researcher

Sunposium Abstract Deadline Extended to December 31

Max Planck Florida Announces Science Meets Music Schedule

Dr. Ryohei Yasuda Receives Prestigious NIH Transformative Researcher Award

Celebrating Ten Years: MPFI Honors Stratmann, Kelly at Anniversary Dinner

South Florida Teachers Receive Cutting-Edge Training at Max Planck Florida Institute

Michael Yartsev Named 2022 Peter Gruss Young Investigator Award Winner
Innovative research into the naturalistic behavior of bats led to Dr. Michael Yartsev being named the 2022 Peter Gruss Young Investigator Award winner by Max Planck Florida Institute […]
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MPFI and FAU Launch New MD/Ph.D. Partnership

Max Planck Florida Researcher Receives Prestigious NIH New Innovator Award

NWiS Spotlight: Amanda Coldwell

MPFI Holds 2022 Career Day

IMPRS for Synapses and Circuits Holds Advanced Course on Electrophysiology

MPFI Celebrates Tenth Anniversary with Brain Exploration Day Open House

NWiS Spotlight: Dr. Ilika Ghosh

Experience Required: A role for vision in the development of inhibitory networks

Spot the difference: Brain changes that enable fine visual discrimination learning

MPFI Receives Grant to Expand Education Outreach

Dr. Gabriela Rodriguez Awarded NIH Grant

Max Planck Florida Holds Science Meets Music

MPFI Holds Brain Bee Challenge 2022

Gold In-and-Out: New software automates and standardizes electron microscopy data analysis

Max Planck Society President Announces Aid Package for Ukraine Refugee Scientists
Original article: https://www.mpg.de/18467405/max-planck-praesident-stellt-hilfspaket-fuer-die-ukraine-im-senat-vor
“Since February 24, 2022, my life story has divided into two parts: the part when I thought that war would never knock on the doors of […]

Ready, Set … GO! Scientists discover a brain circuit that triggers the execution of planned movement

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Stands in Solidarity with Ukraine

Understanding Binocular Vision: How MPFI Researchers are Working to Understand How Vision Comes Together

Max Planck Florida Announces First US-based International Max Planck Research School

MPFI Data Science Fellows Organize Hackapalooza

Working Together to Understand How the Brain Sees the World

Cartography of the Visual Cortex: Charting a New Course for the Organization of Visual Space

Imaging Single Spine Structural Plasticity at the Nanoscale Level

MPFI Research Group Leader Awarded Grant to Study Eating Disorders

MPFI Launches New Series Featuring Max Planck Researchers

Rangaraju Lab Awarded Grant to Study Mitochondrial Function

Molecular Bridge Mediates Inhibitory Synapse Specificity in the Cortex

Max Planck Florida Researcher Wins Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award

Small Cluster, Big Implications: Specialized Inhibitory Cluster Gates Plasticity during Fear Learning

Max Planck Florida’s Wang Lab Receives $2.4M NIH Grant to Study Memory

Max Planck Florida Receives Mary and Robert Pew Public Education Fund Grant to Expand Teacher Training
