What is Sunposium?
The inaugural Sunposium, hosted by the Max Planck Florida Institute, will feature internationally-recognized scientists from the Max Planck Society, as well as speakers from research institutes and universities located throughout the United States and Europe.
The Sunposium will highlight the challenges, latest findings and advances that address some of the most complex issues at the forefront of understanding neural circuits.
Richard Axel
Nobel Laureate. Professor and Co-Director, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Initiative, Columbia University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Yang Dan
Professor of Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Peter Mombaerts
Director, Department of Molecular Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main.
Bernardo Sabatini
Takeda Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Ernst Bamberg
Director, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main.
Winfried Denk
Director, Department of Biomedical Optics, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg; Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Physics, University of Heidelberg; JFRC Senior Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Edvard Moser
Professor and Co-Director, The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
Bert Sakmann
Nobel Laureate. Inaugural Director and Group Leader, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
Cori Bargmann
Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Ann Graybiel
Professor and Investigator, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
May-Britt Moser
Professor and Co-Director, The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
Massimo Scanziani
Professor, Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Daniel Choquet
Director, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Bordeaux Segalen University; Director, Bordeaux Imaging Center, Bordeaux University.
Stefan Hell
Director, Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen.
Erwin Neher
Nobel Laureate. Emeritus Director, Department of Membrane Physics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen.
Karel Svoboda
Group Leader, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
David Tank
Professor, Molecular Biology; Co-Director, Princeton Neuroscience Institute.
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