Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Don’t miss the Nanosymposium NANO024 – Connectomics at #SfN2025!
📍 SD Convention Center, Room 33
⏰ 8 - 11:30 AM PST
12 speakers from academia & industry exploring #connectomics across species and questions.
With Gregor Schuhknecht (MPI Brain Research) @mpibrain.bsky.social and Helene Schmidt (ESI)

Two New Research Groups join the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Exciting news!
Two new groups join the MPI for Brain Research! Welcome
🪰 Philipp Brand – Evolutionary Neuroscience & Behavior @pbrand.bsky.social and
🐟 Gregor Schuhknecht – Brain Algorithms & Circuits

More info 👉 bit.ly/47M3bDt

#Neuroscience #BrainResearch

Erin Schuman elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine

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

We’re thrilled to launch the MPI Brain's @mpibrain.bsky.social 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

#Cellfie #CalciumImaging #SystemsNeuroscience

Learn more about the public outreach activities at the MPI for Brain Research 🧠: brain.mpg.de/outreach

@maxplanck.de 🏫 School Outreach Network Meeting at @hausderastronomie.bsky.social 🔭 & MPI for Nuclear Physics - Sharing experiences and shaping ideas to inspire the next generation of scientists. 🧬🔬🧪 www.max-wissen.de

A molecular atlas of the hippocampus: Scientist at the MPIs for Brain Research and Biophysics map RNAs and proteins at synaptic resolution 🔬 🔗 brain.mpg.de/molecular-at... @evakaulich.bsky.social @erin-schuman.bsky.social

🚨Hiring Alert! Join Gregor Schuhknechts’s
new group Brain Algorithms and Circuits @mpibrain.bsky.social !

🧠 Fully funded PhD & Postdoc
🐟 Larval #zebrafish model
🔬 Imaging, electrophysiology, EM
💻 #SystemsNeuroscience

👉 brain.mpg.de/schuhknecht

Ribosomes On the Road: Neurons Assemble Protein Factories Far from the Nucleus New study shows ribosome biogenesis can occur within neuronal branches, challenging traditional textbook biology.

🚛 Ribosomes on the road! New research from the Schuman Lab @mpibrain.bsky.social 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

Science up close: Max Planck Junior Scholars 2025

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 at the MPI 🧠. Driven, talented minds, and full of potential! @maxplanck.de 🔗 bit.ly/3H33m3S

Gilles Laurent to receive the 2025 Karl Spencer Lashley Award

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

Erin M. Schuman Wins 2026 Nakasone Award

🎉 Huge congratulations to @MpiBrain director Erin Schuman @erin-schuman.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 Nakasone Award for her groundbreaking work on the function and plasticity of neuronal synapses! 🧠 @hfspo.bsky.social ‬#neuroscience #HFSP #NakasoneAward 👉 bit.ly/4m6g40P

The 2025 Max Planck Junior Scholars Program is supported by the 2024 Körber Prize @koerberscience.bsky.social to Erin Schuman @erin-schuman.bsky.social 🙌

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.bsky.social and our partner institutes at MPI of Biophysics, @mpi-hlr.bsky.social and @goetheuni.bsky.social

This year’s cohort brings together young people with exceptional scientific curiosity and whom come from underrepresented backgrounds:
🌍 migration backgrounds
💡 first in their family to attend university
🤝 financially less privileged

🚀 We’re thrilled to welcome 14 talented and enthusiastic high-school students to the 2025 Max Planck Junior Scholars Program, kicking off today with a Science Boot Camp Week @mpibrain.bsky.social ! 🔬🧬 @maxplanck.de

The Max Planck Institute for Brain Research @mpibrain.bsky.social joined the Be Open about Animal Research Day.
You can join too! Show your support and share on #BOARD25

The Be Open about Animal Research Day is starting now!
Show your support and share on #BOARD25

🚀 Zwei neue #Exzellenzcluster für die #GoetheUni! Mit @scale-cluster-ffm.bsky.social & @cpi-exstra.bsky.social wird Frankfurt ab 2026 zum Hotspot für Zell- & Gesundheitsforschung. Nächster Schritt: Exzellenzverbund @rheinmainunis.bsky.social mit @unimainz.bsky.social & @tuda.bsky.social.

🚀 Two Future Clusters of Excellence for #GoetheUni! With @scale-cluster-ffm.bsky.social & @cpi-exstra.bsky.social, Frankfurt will become a hotspot for cell & health #research from 2026. Next step: Network of excellence @rheinmainunis.bsky.social with @unimainz.bsky.social & @tuda.bsky.social.

#GirlsDay at @mpibrain.bsky.social - We loved welcoming curious and enthusiastic girls to explore the world of science & research. We're committed to continue to inspire the next generation of researchers. 👩‍🔬 #STEM #WomenInScience #NextGenScientists @erin-schuman.bsky.social @alenalem.bsky.social

🧠 Fascinating insights! We are thrilled to be part of the new „Gehirne" exhibition at Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt @sgn.one in collaboration with the Hertie Foundation - offering a unique glimpse into the brain’s complexity. #Connectomics #HertieStiftung #Neuroscience @mhlab.bsky.social

Great talks and inspiring discussions - The IMPRS coordinators meeting at Schloss 🏰 Ringberg is in full swing, bringing together great minds in a truly spectacular setting. 🌞 @maxplanck.de

✨ Celebrating Excellence in Science! ✨
#Today, we proudly celebrated Gilles Laurent for receiving the 2025 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine! His pioneering research in #SystemsNeuroscience continues to push the boundaries of our understanding of the brain. 🧠 @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social

📢 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is happy to announce the 2025 #LouisJeantetPrizes, awarded to VEIT HORNUNG @v-hornung.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social and to GILLES LAURENT @ maxplanck.de

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Gilles Laurent is awarded the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2025 The 2025 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to Gilles Laurent, director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and to Veit Hornung, professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of ...

Congratulations to @mpibrain.bsky.social director Gilles Laurent for being awarded the 2025 Louis-Jeantet prize for Medicine! The @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social recognizes Laurent's pioneering work on the operations of #neurons and dynamics of neuronal networks. More infos 👉 bit.ly/4hqk6ie