Sometime this year, construction and furnishing of the Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience will be completed in Jupiter, FL—the Institute’s first facility outside of Germany.  It is located at a campus shared with the Scripps Research Institute and Florida Atlantic University; the State of Florida and the County of Palm Beach put up most of the $190m in funding.  MPI researchers will focus on neural disorders, brain signaling, cortical circuits, neural plasticity and digital neuroanatomy.  MORE