Max Widmann

As a little boy, I wanted to become a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs (who doesn’t). But when I first heard and saw about zebrafish neuroscience and watched their brain compute live under the microscope, I became fascinated by it.
Why care about long-dead lizards when you can watch live fish brains?
I am interested in finding out all there is about the neurons that make up this brain:

What is their anatomy?
How do they react to visual stimuli?
What is their molecular makeup?
And what is their role in the neural circuitry leading to the behavior of the animal?

Leveraging the new methods, I plan to answer all of these questions for single cells and, through this, find out more about the whole brain.