The cerebral cortex is a fast learner
Tübingen researchers trace the formation of memories in the cerebral neocortex[more]
European scientists unite to safeguard precision breeding for sustainable agriculture
Tübingen, 25 October 2018. Leading scientists representing more than 75 European plant and life sciences research centers and institutes have endorsed a position paper that urgently calls upon European policy makers to...[more]
2018 Trainee Award goes to employee of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Award for the precision mechanic Ms. Laetitia Djayou [more]
Mark Krause: Exhibition “Spotlight Portraits”
Invitation to the vernissage with a "Live Painting Music Performance" on 24 October 2018[more]
LISA: Scientists introduce a new method of statistical inference in neuroimaging (fMRI)
New method detects brain activations with improved sensitivity and accuracy[more]
Spatial memory is not like a „map in the head“
How do we store the spatial information of our surrounding?[more]
Neuroscientists Receive the Attempto Prize
Leonid Fedorov honored for outstanding research on the brain[more]
Body perception research using virtual reality – is this avatar really me?
How do we perceive our own body weight? Which body weight do we find attractive? [more]
Peter Dayan and Li Zhaoping appointed to the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
The Max Planck Society appoints two renowned neuroscientists from University College London to the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen[more]
14./15. September 2018: Max-Planck-Tag und Tag der offenen Tür auf dem Max-Planck-Campus in Tübingen
Forschung bei Max-Planck erleben[more]
How molecules measure embryo size
During embryo development, two molecules establish the correct tissue proportions – and adapt them to the embryo’s overall size[more]
Max Planck researcher receives animal welfare award
The German Research Foundation awards the Ursula M. Händel Animal Welfare Prize to Hamid R. Noori[more]
Inauguration of the TübingenNeuroCampus
The TübingenNeuroCampus (TNC) has been inaugurated on July 19, 2018.[more]
A plant species with the genetic diversity to withstand climate change
Tübingen, 19 July 2018. Global climate change can have catastrophic consequences for many species, but a few might have the ability to survive or even thrive. Plants (and all organisms) have two options for responding to climate...[more]
300,000 year standoff could be key to crop pathogen control
Tübingen, 17 July 2018. Researchers in the laboratory of Detlef Weigel at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology discovered a feud going back 300,000 years by studying a common pathogenic bacterium and one of the wild...[more]
1.5 million Euros for research on the evolution of proteins
Research consortium receives funding from Volkswagen Foundation[more]
First machine learning method capable of accurate extrapolation
Scientists develop new machine learning method that can make robots safer - New method provides simpler and more intuitive models of physical situations[more]
Fit for the job!
Following the motto "Fit for the job", the organizing team of the health day on 5 July put together a packed and attractive program and dedicated the whole day to the topic of health. Health is more than just proper...[more]
Give and Take: How We Recognise Interactions
Tübingen neuroscientists investigate how actions that relate be-tween individuals are recognised and represented in the brain[more]
Jia-Jie Zhu receives the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
A prestigious junior scientist fellowship is awarded to the MPI-IS researcher[more]
Realistic Avatars for the Virtual Zoo
On the basis of a few photos alone, a new technique creates realistic avatars of animals that look and move like real animals[more]
Award for Tübinger Computer Vision Scientist stands tribute to Cyber Valley being at the forefront of AI research
For the first time, the prestigious IEEE PAMI Young Researcher Award goes to a German researcher.[more]
Machine Learning Frontiers in Precision Medicine
Dept. Empirical Inference is part of this new scientific network [more]
Cyber Valley attracts research group leaders from around the world
Research cooperation in the field of Intelligent Systems gains momentum[more]
Ruth Ley receives the Ernst Jung-Prize for Medicine 2018
Tübingen, May 4th, 2018. The Jung Foundation for Science and Research in Hamburg announced that the Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine 2018 will be shared by Prof. Dr. Ruth Ley, Director of the Department of Microbiome Science at the...[more]
Initiative to establish a European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems
Warning about the competition from the USA and China - appeal to politics[more]
One step closer to reality
The software "PyFRAP" is an accurate and reliable tool for the analysis of molecular movement, employing numerical simulations rather than simplified assumptions [more]
Detlef Weigel will receive the Barbara McClintock Prize 2019
Announcement of the Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies awardee 2019 [more]
Breaking species barriers by “breeding” mice in a dish
Breakthrough in stem cell techniques allows genetic studies between mouse species without crosses[more]
Why the World Looks Stable While We Move
Tübingen Neuroscientists investigate the interaction of visual perception and head movements with functional magnetic resonance imaging[more]
International Virtual Reality Conference “IEEE VR 2018” comes to Reutlingen, Germany
IEEE VR 2018 is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO Stuttgart [more]
Scientists create ‘Evolutionwatch’ for plants
Tübingen, 23rdth February 2018. Scientists are giving plant collections from museums a new lease of life with ‘Evolutionwatch’ – a new way to study evolution in action. Using a hitchhiking weed, scientists from...[more]
Smart Health: 2 million euros in funding for new electronic systems for intelligent medical technology
Professor Klaus Scheffler plans to develop and test new electronic systems in active implants - Innovative funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)[more]
Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change
Tübingen, 18th December 2017. In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate change, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology...[more]
Bernhard Schölkopf receives Leibniz Prize 2018
Germany's most prestigious research funding prize - €2.5 million each for outstanding research work[more]
The catch-up or fallback illusion
Why we accidentally slow-down people on the motorway and lose football matches[more]
From small to not so pixel-perfect large
The Algorithm EnhanceNet-PAT is OK not being perfect – but shows a better result[more]
Philipp Hennig receives prestigious ERC Starting Grant
Max Planck Research Group Leader Philipp Hennig will use the five-year funding with a total of 1.45 million Euros for his “Probabilistic Automated Numerical Analysis in Machine learning and Artificial intelligence (PANAMA)”...[more]
Patrick Müller receives the „EMBO Young Investigator” Award
Tübingen, 25th October 2017. Patrick Müller, group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, is one of the “EMBO Young Investigators” 2017. EMBO announces today the selection of 28 young scientists as EMBO Young Investigators....[more]
Amazon wants to join Cyber Valley
The technology company is supporting the research collaboration on AI initiated by the Max Planck Society[more]
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