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“Conceiving, building and launching the FAU Stiles-
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we are ecstatic to showcase our outstanding research facility
today,” said Randy Blakely, Ph.D., executive director of the
FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, the David J.S. Nicholson
Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, and a professor
of biomedical science within FAU’s Schmidt College of
Medicine. “We are incredibly thankful to David for his support
and for everyone’s hard work and dedication to make the FAU
Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute a reality. We believe that the Centers of Excellence in the United States, one of 16 in the
impact from bringing together the brightest minds within this Americas and one of 30 worldwide.
facility to unravel the secrets of the brain will improve the Among the research areas taking place on the second floor,
quality of people’s lives for decades to come.” approximately 4,400 square feet of open laboratory space is
A key feature of the second floor is the Advanced Cell linked to facilities with shared technology and faculty offices.
Imaging Core Laboratory where the visualization of brain The open design stimulates communication and collaboration
cells takes place. Multidimensional, dynamic cellular and among junior and senior scientists and fosters multidisciplinary
brain circuit visualization merges with computational and research opportunities.
virtual reality resources in this space to allow researchers to The third floor is outfitted to support the researchers
peer deeply into the brain. It also contains more than $1 million whose studies link molecular, cellular and computational
in already acquired equipment and houses one of 14 Nikon neuroscience. A space outfitted with high-speed optical

fiber connects researchers’ computer workstations to the
supercomputers of the FAU High Performance Computing
Roger Dean Center where analysis of immense data are manipulated for
the 3-D modeling of proteins and drugs as well as to decipher
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The space also will support advanced training of high school,
undergraduate and graduate students in computational biology,
chemistry and neuroscience.
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