IMPRS-BI group leaders recruiting in 2023

Note: Application deadline has passed.

Herwig Baier

Herwig Baier

Director
MPI-BI Martinsried
Development and function of neural circuits • Neuroethology of zebrafish and cichlids • Omics approaches to behavior • Zebrafish brain atlas
Maude Baldwin

Maude Baldwin

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Sensory systems • Evolution of vertebrate taste receptors • Convergent evolution • Evolution of digestive functions
Tobias Bonhoeffer

Tobias Bonhoeffer

Director
MPI-BI Martinsried
Mammalian neural circuits • Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity • Visual system • Learning under (semi-)natural conditions
Laura Busse

Laura Busse

Professor
LMU Munich
Neural circuits of cortico-thalamic feedback in the mouse visual system • Computational modelling of the mouse thalamocortical system • Natural stimuli for mice
Lisa Fenk

Lisa Fenk

Group leader
MPI-BI Martinsried
Visual processing in Drosophila • Neuroethology of vision • Neuronal activity during active behavior • Eye movements and active vision
Manfred Gahr

Manfred Gahr

Director
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Sexual differentiation • Vocal communication • Brain and behavior
Julijana Gjorgjieva

Julijana Gjorgjieva

Professor
TUM
Computational modeling of neural circuits • Models of synaptic plasticity • Models of neural development and learning • Neural information processing
Nadine Gogolla

Nadine Gogolla

Director
MPI of Psychiatry
Neuronal circuits for emotion in mice • Interoception and emotion • Insular cortex
Angelika Harbauer

Angelika Harbauer

Group leader
MPI-BI Martinsried
Neuronal mitochondrial biogenesis • Mitochondrial plasticity in neurodevelopment • Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological disease
Michaela Hau

Michaela Hau

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Evolutionary physiology • Effects of climate warming on wild birds • Metabolism, stress responses and life history decisions
David Keays

David Keays

Professor
LMU Munich
Molecules, Cells and Circuits in Magnetosensation • Microtubules and Neurodevelopmental Disease • Organoid models in monotremes and marsupials
Michael Kiebler

Michael Kiebler

Professor
LMU Munich
Dendritic RNA transport to synapses of mammalian neurons • Omics approaches to ribonucleoprotein assembly • Local protein synthesis at activated synapses • The role of Pum2 in epilepsy and GABA A receptor function in vivo
Rüdiger Klein

Rüdiger Klein

Director
MPI-BI Martinsried
Re-designing brain circuits in mice • Multimodal mapping of cell types in mouse amygdala • Optogenetic manipulation of appetitive behavior
Jörgen Kornfeld

Jörgen Kornfeld

Group leader
MPI-BI Martinsried
Connectomics • Machine learning • Songbird neural circuits • Connectome decoding
Christian Mayer

Christian Mayer

Group leader
MPI-BI Martinsried
Omics approaches to brain development • Neural cell fate specification • Neurogenomics • Single-cell delineation of lineage and genetic identity
Richard Merrill

Richard Merrill

Professor
LMU Munich
Ecological, genetic and developmental basis of sensory and behavioural variation • Speciation (especially evolution of behavioural isolation) • Tropical butterflies
Thomas Misgeld

Thomas Misgeld

Professor
TUM
Development of neuromuscular synapses • Cell biological mechanisms of axon homeostasis and degeneration • The neuro-energetics of the CNS
Pablo Oteiza

Pablo Oteiza

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Comparative Biomechanics • Development and Function of the Lateral Line System • Neural Basis of Flow Navigation
Daniela Vallentin

Daniela Vallentin

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Neural circuits for vocal communication • Songbird neuroethology • Electrophysiology in interacting animals
Jochen Wolf

Jochen Wolf

Professor
LMU Munich
Evolutionary genetics • Genome-wide signatures of behaviour (e.g. mating behaviour, movement)
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