Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - caesar

The Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - caesar (MPINB) is a research institute dedicated to the neuroethological study of animals. The research groups and departments bring a collectively unique combination of experimental and computational approaches to bear on the question of how the brain controls behavior. Our research spans a large range of scales from the nano-scale imaging of the brain, to large-scale functional imaging of thousands of neurons in the brain, to the quantification of natural animal behavior. Our expertise drives the development of new technological contributions, both in experimental instrumentation as well as in computational modeling and data analysis methods. In addition to the technological breadth of the research groups departments at MPINB, our neuroethological questions are comparative in nature and incorporate a diverse set of species allowing us to study the wide repertoire of behaviors across the animal kingdom.