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Innovation

Nurturing translation and tech transfer

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Our mission

Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

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TRANSFORMATIVE TRAINING

Creating future leaders in neuroscience

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RESEARCH CULTURE

Interdisciplinary collaboration on the brain

Imagining the future: exploring the role of hippocampal replay

Researchers from SWC, University of Oxford and Stanford University, set out to understand how humans and animals can learn very quickly to respond appropriately in new situations and environments by relying on previous experience. They hypothesised that building maps, instead of experiencing them state by state, could be the answer.

An example hippocampal neuron that obtains a new place response after first firing in replay.

Approaching a career crossroads in light of our values

What brought you into science and academia? What made you stay? SWC Research Fellow Jasmine Reggiani explores careers and values in academia.

Image of a book with the title "The Power of WHY" on the left page and "77 Human Needs" on the right page

Mapping the brain’s superhighways within and across cortical hemispheres

When you watch a pianist play, you can see how their left hand is in perfect harmony with their right. Yet the two hands are controlled by different brain hemispheres. Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL and Jena University Hospital have been studying how this works by looking at the interconnectivity of different brain areas both within and across hemispheres.

It must be something I ate – How the brain learns what made you sick

Most of us have had the experience of being put off a particular food after it made us ill. But how does the brain know what made you sick? Dr Christopher Zimmerman, a postdoctoral researcher at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, studies body-to-brain communication and how it influences nearly every aspect of our behaviour. Chris recently spoke at SWC as an ENSS winner, and in this Q&A he discusses his work on how our bodies and our brains connect.

Why join SWC?

Career development is personal, and it can look different for different people. As SWC expands there are lots of opportunities to become involved and carve out a meaningful career path with us. We’re proud to be a place where talent is recognised and developed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

Student Symposium 2025: The Social Brain

SWC/GCNU Student Symposium Team

Group Floor Lecture Theatre

SWC Seminar: Genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the development, function and evolution of cortical circuits from mice to humans

Dr Franck Polleux

Columbia University

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

SWC Seminar: Thinking and doing