2020

Press Release

3 Sep 2020

On a quest for a magnetic compass – caesar researcher Pascal Malkemper awarded with an ERC Starting Grant

He is on a fascinating quest to understand a mysterious sense in an exotic animal: Pascal Malkemper, leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Neurobiology of Magnetoreception” at the research center caesar. This mission has just received a substantial boost: Malkemper is awarded with a prestigious ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council. These highly competitive grants enable outstanding scientists to establish themselves as upcoming research leaders.

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Press Release

20 Jul 2020

Summer school opens insight into neuro research

The Corona pandemic particularly affects the education of schoolchildren. Not only is learning in schools severely restricted. Excursions and extracurricular learning opportunities are also hardly feasible. A special online summer school offered by the caesar research centre fills this gap. There are still places available for the course from 03 - 06 August 2020.

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Press Release

3 Jun 2020

Newly discovered ion channel family makes fish sperm move

Fish live in fresh and sea water. How does their sperm adapt to the different habitats?

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4 May 2020

Observing the freely behaving brain: new publication in "Nature Methods"

Scientists working at caesar have developed a small head-mounted microscope that allows access to the inner workings of the brain. The new system enables measurement of activity from neuronal populations located in the deep cortical layer with single-cell resolution, in an animal that is freely behaving.

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28 Apr 2020

New resarch group: "Cellular Computations and Learning"

New group researches information processing in cells.

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