MPI for Brain Research

@NatRevNeurosci And don't miss Vivien Marx's wonderful technology feature on the topic nature.com/articles/s4159… @metricausa

Also newly published: Helmstaedter's review on Synaptic-Resolution Connectomics in Nature Reviews Neuroscience: nature.com/articles/s4158… @NatRevNeurosci. Great time to catch up on this exciting field in Neuroscience! @mh_lab

3D-EM–based connectomics is Method of the Year 2025 @naturemethods 🎉 Our director Moritz Helmstaedter, founder of the world’s first “Dept. of Connectomics” @mh_lab @MpiBrain, outlines an optimistic future enabling large-brain Connectomic Screening. bit.ly/3XVIccW

Don’t miss the Nanosympsium NANO024 – Connectomics at #SfN2025! 📍San Diego Convention Center, Room 33 ⏰ 8 - 11:30 AM 12 speakers from academia & industry exploring #connectomics across species and questions. With Gregor Schuhknecht @MPIBrain & Helene Schmidt @ESI_Frankfurt

Exciting news! Two new research groups join the @MpiBrain: 🪰Philipp Brand – Evolutionary Neuroscience & Behavior 🐟Gregor Schuhknecht – Brain Algorithms & Circuits More info 👉 bit.ly/47M3bDt #Neuroscience #BrainResearch

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday!

Congratulations to our Managing Director @erin_schuman on being elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine! A special honor recognizing her pioneering work on local protein synthesis at synapses. @theNAMedicine #NAMmtg 🔗 bit.ly/3Jid6Ix

We're thrilled to launch the @MpiBrain’s new Cellfies series! Neurons in the larval zebrafish brain react to motion left (purple) or right (green). Explore our Algorithms and Circuits research 🔗brain.mpg.de/schuhknecht @GregorFPS #Cellfie #CalciumImaging #SystemsNeuroscience

Learn more about the public outreach activities at the @MpiBrain 🧠here: brain.mpg.de/outreach

@maxplanckpress 🏫 School Outreach Network Meeting at Haus der Astronomie 🔭 & MPI for Nuclear Physics - Sharing experiences and shaping ideas to inspire the next generation of scientists. 🧬🔬🧪 max-wissen.de

@maxplanckpress 🏫 School Outreach Network Meeting at Haus der Astronomie 🔭 & MPI for Nuclear Physics - Sharing experiences and shaping ideas to inspire the next generation of scientists. 🧬🔬🧪 max-wissen.de

A molecular atlas of the hippocampus: Scientist at @MPIBrain and @MPIbp map RNAs and proteins at synaptic resolution 🔬 Full story: brain.mpg.de/molecular-atla…

🚨Hiring Alert! Join Gregor Schuhknechts’s @GregorFPS new group Brain Algorithms and Circuits @MpiBrain ! 🧠 Fully funded PhD & Postdoc 🐟 Larval #zebrafish model 🔬 Imaging, electrophysiology, EM 💻#SystemsNeuroscience 👉 brain.mpg.de/schuhknecht

🚛 Ribosomes on the road! New research from the Schuman Lab @MpiBrain shows neurons can locally assemble ribosomes - far from the nucleus and close to synapses. A big shift from textbook biology! 📚🧬🔗bit.ly/3GUJKPv #Neuroscience #CellBiology #Ribosomes

A festive finish to the Max Planck Junior Scholars Program 2025! 🎓 After 3 weeks of hands-on science, twelve outstanding students presented their research & experiences at today’s certificate ceremony @MpiBrain. 🔗bit.ly/3H33m3S @KoerberScience

Honoring excellence 👏 The American Philosophical Society @AmPhilSociety recognizes Gilles Laurent with the 2025 Karl Spencer Lashley Award for his groundbreaking studies on information coding and processing in the central nervous system @maxplanckpress👉 bit.ly/453rJXd

🎉Huge congratulations to @MpiBrain director @erin_schuman on receiving the 2026 @HFSP Nakasone Award for her groundbreaking work on the function and plasticity of neuronal synapses! 🧠 #Neuroscience #HFSP #NakasoneAward @maxplanckpress 👉 bit.ly/4m6g40P

The 2025 Max Planck Junior Scholars Program is supported by the @KoerberScience Prize 2024 to @erin_schuman 🙌. (4/4)

Our mission is to spark inspiration, build skills, and open doors to the world of #science — together with outstanding mentors and researchers at the @MpiBrain and our partner institutes: @MPIbp @mpi_hlr and Goethe University. (3/4)

🚀 We’re thrilled to welcome 14 talented and enthusiastic high-school students to the 2025 Max Planck Junior Scholars Program, kicking off today with our Science Boot Camp Week @MpiBrain ! 🔬🧬 @maxplanckpress @KoerberScience (1/4)