Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Florida Atlantic University Collaborate on a Joint-Doctoral Program on FAU’s Jupiter Campus

Graduate education and the ability to attract excellent graduate students are key elements to the success of Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI). MPFI graduate students participate in a wide array of community activities organized by MPFI’s Postdoctoral Association.

In late 2014, MPFI established an International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Brain & Behavior. It offers students a world-class doctoral program to learn, train and work in foreign countries. Its research programs address how sensory information is encoded in neural circuits and is transformed ultimately to behavior. MPFI, in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University (FAU), the University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany), and the Center for Advanced European Studies and Research (Bonn, Germany), is globalizing brain research with this new program. There are 80 international Max Planck Institutes that are associated with 60 International Max Planck Research Schools. MPFI has received 140 applications for this program and the second class is expected to start in this fall.

MPFI’s Integrative Biology and Neuroscience Ph.D. Program is also in collaboration with FAU. This program (known as IBAN) is held on FAU’s Jupiter campus and students explore neuroscience via multiple integrated disciplines and an array of technologies.