Our team
Borys Wróbel
As the Scientific Director of the European Institute for Brain Research (EIBR), Borys Wróbel is building a brain bank that uses innovative methods to store neural tissue, preserving the structure of neurons with unprecedented quality at a nanoscale level.
Borys obtained a PhD in biology from the University of Gdansk in 1998. He was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, FEBS and EMBO Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Valencia, Sciex Fellow in the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETHZ, Kosciuszko Fellow at Oregon State University, and full professor of biological sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He is an alumnus of The Young Academy of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Global Young Academy.
Scientific Advisory Board
Ruth Benavides-Piccione
Ruth Benavides-Piccione received the PhD degree in neuroanatomy from the Cajal Institute in Madrid in 2004, where she now leads microanatomical studies using intracellular injections in fixed brain sections in order to unravel the structural dendritic design and to analyze variations in cell morphology.
Using this technique, she has contributed to the understanding of pyramidal cell structure, the main cell type in the cerebral cortex, in various mammalian species, including both healthy and diseased humans (Down’s syndrome, epilepsy, Alzheimer´s disease). She is advising EIBR on human brain sampling for light microscopy.
Kalman Czeibert
Kalman Czeibert received his PhD in neuroanatomy and 3D modelling. He graduated as a veterinarian, worked as a clinician and later as a university lecturer in veterinary anatomy. He became part of that international research team at the Eotvos Loránd University which studied the cognitive aging of dogs.
Here he participated in the fMRI analysis, brain imaging and the work of the Canine Brain and Tissue Bank. Currently he is working for a private company with the scope of making 3D models and custom designed 3D printed veterinarian surgical models, guides and implants. He is advising EIBR on canine neuroanatomy and brain banking.
Kenneth Hayworth
Kenneth Hayworth received a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California for research into how the human visual system encodes spatial relations among objects. He is currently a Senior Scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus, where he is researching ways to extend Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy imaging of brain tissue to encompass much larger volumes than are currently possible.
He is a co-inventor of the Tape-to-SEM process for high-throughput volume imaging of neural circuits at the nanometer scale and he designed and built several automated machines to implement this process. He is advising EIBR on the electron microscopy techniques.
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