Max Planck Florida research group leader Dr. Sarah Stern has been awarded the 2021 One Mind – Donna Friedman Rising Star...
Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia
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...
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...
Deletion of ErbB4 Disrupts Synaptic Transmission and Long-Term...
Identification of candidate risk genes and alteration in the expression of proteins involved in regulating inhibitory...
Imaging neuronal protein signaling dynamics in vivo
The activity patterns of Individual neurons are highly coordinated and synchronized within neuronal circuits in the brain...