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MPFI Research Group Leader Awarded Grant to Study Eating...
Max Planck Florida research group leader Dr. Sarah Stern has been awarded the 2021 One Mind – Donna Friedman Rising Star...
From amateur to expert
Mice’s learning skills help researchers pinpointing brain areas where acquired knowledge is stored. Is it a Rembrandt or...
Local supply chains in neurons: who gets the goods?
Scientists discover a tight relationship between the local protein synthesis machinery and its nascent protein products in...
Imaging Single Spine Structural Plasticity at the Nanoscale Level
Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) have developed a new imaging technique capable of...
Max Planck Florida Launches “Curiosity Meets Discovery” Web...
It’s rare to get a glimpse of the life-changing research that takes place in one of the 86 world-renowned Max Planck...
A molecular switch to adjust synapses
Neurons phosphorylate their proteins in order to sense and respond to changes in network activity Homeostatic scaling is...
Flawed quality control in the brain
New mouse type reveals when neurons fail to cope with misfolded proteins Proteins are the “tools” of our...
Rapid Ultrastructural Changes in the PSD and Surrounding...
The structural plasticity of dendritic spines is considered to be an important basis of synaptic plasticity, learning, and...
Rangaraju Lab Awarded Grant to Study Mitochondrial Function
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience announces that Dr. Vidhya Rangaraju’s Neuroenergentics Lab has been...