Max Planck NeuroMEETS

This trainee seminar series highlights neuroscience research conducted by talented postdocs from outside our institution. Selected speakers will be invited to give a seminar at MPFI to share their innovative research and meet with our faculty members, students, and postdocs for feedback, discussion, and networking.

A selection committee will choose two postdocs to serve as invited speakers. Each chosen speaker will receive travel and lodging support, as well as an honorarium, to visit MPFI in Jupiter, FL, this fall or early winter. During their visit, they will give a 45-minute seminar and spend the day engaging with our neuroscience community.

Applications are due by July 1, 2026.

The following application materials are required for consideration.

• Current CV
• Research Seminar Title
• Research Abstract: In one page or less, please describe the following.
  1) Current research: Emphasize innovation and impact.
  2) Future goals: What is the long-term direction and impact of this research?
  The inclusion of a schematic or a figure to help communicate your research is highly encouraged.

Please do not include your name, lab, or institution in your research abstract, as reviewers will initially be blinded from the applicant’s name, institution, and CV.

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Examples of Successful Abstracts

The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) is a nonprofit research organization that is part of the Max Planck Society, Germany’s most successful research organization with over 80 institutes worldwide. MPFI brings together exceptional neuroscientists from around the world to answer fundamental questions about brain development and function and to develop new technologies that make groundbreaking scientific discoveries possible. Our campus consists of a rich neuroscience community that includes UF Scripps Biomedical Research, and Florida Atlantic University. Learn more about our campus.

Postdocs:                                         Graduate Students:  
Nicole Wang, Ph.D.                            Zixuan Deng
Zhenggang Zhu, Ph.D.                       Luis Gomez Wulschner
Harris Kaplan, Ph.D.                          Alex Chen
Qian Li, Ph.D.                                      Drew Adler
Jake Wright, Ph.D.                             Prachi Shah
Debosmita Sardar, Ph.D.                  Hammad Khan
Celine Drieu, Ph.D.                            Alex Winsor
Giacomo Maddaloni, Ph.D.               Anjali Vishwanath
Lukas Groshner, Ph.D.                      Steffen Schneider
Tingting Zhou, Ph.D.                          Robin Isadora Brown
Megha Sehgal, Ph.D.                         Adithya Rajagopalan
Alexandra Klein, Ph.D.                      Harshida Pancholi
Kevin Cury, Ph.D.                               Gowri Somasekhar
Levi Todd, Ph.D.                                 Anna Wurz

Lesley Colgan, Ph.D.
Office of Scientific Communications
lesley.colgan@mpfi.org

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