Research at the former MPI of Neurobiology centered on the basic mechanisms and functions of the developing and adult nervous system.
The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry is situated directly next door on the Martinsried campus.
Close cooperation also exists between the institute and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), the University of California, San Diego (USA), and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (Munich, Germany).
The Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology attempts to render its research as transparent to the public as possible.
Visitor groups, school classes and individual pupils can gain insight into the work at the institute and see what it's like to be a scientist in the hands-on-laboratory MaxLab.