Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, Florida
Email: info@maxplanckflorida.org
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Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
FL 33458-2906 Jupiter
Fax: +1 561 972-9001
Even scientists occasionally believe only what they can see. Modern imaging methods and microscopy techniques, such as fluorescence microscopy and magnetic resonance imaging, enable them to watch living cells live at work. Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience want to use and develop methods and technologies that will allow them to see the processes occurring inside cells down to the molecular level. It is the Max Planck Society’s first research institute in the USA. Scientists at the Institute are devoting their efforts to, among other things, a three-dimensional map of the cerebral cortex in the brains of mice to graphically represent the position and networking of synapses and nerve cells. These findings will also contribute to a better understanding of the human brain.
Research Group Leaders
Jason Christie (Mechanism of synaptic signaling and computation)
James Schummers (Cellular organization of cortical circuit function)
Samuel Young (Molecular mechanisms of synaptic function)
Directors / Research Focus
- David Fitzpatrick (Functional Architecture and Development of Visual Cortex)
- Bert Sakmann (Digital Neuroanatomy)
- Ryohei Yasuda (Neuronal Signal Transduction)
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