Our mission

Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

RESEARCH CULTURE

Interdisciplinary collaboration on the brain

A group of students in the SWC PhD programme perorming an imagin experiment

TRANSFORMATIVE TRAINING

Creating future leaders in neuroscience

Uncovering the neural basis of fear memories

Following her SWC Virtual Seminar, Dr Sarah Melzer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, outlines her research to uncover the neural basis of fear memories.

16 February 2021

Brain slice - GRP expression (left) different cell markers (right)

How does the brain accurately represent self-motion during navigation?

When was the last time you moved around the room? And when did you last think about how your brain enables you to do this? Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Senior Research Fellow in the Margrie Lab, et al. explored how mice accurately represent self-motion during navigation.

4 February 2021

Angular head velocity recordings

Equipping artificial intelligence with motivation

We know that algorithms can be exceptional at solving individual tasks when given specific goals, such as winning a game of chess, but one thing they currently lack is intrinsic motivation.

20 January 2021

Robot

Dr Chunyu Ann Duan to lead new group at SWC

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Chunyu Ann Duan will be joining the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in summer 2021. Her lab will focus on understanding how animals make flexible decisions under risk and social influence, and the neural circuit mechanisms underlying these choices.

12 January 2021

SWC Building

Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

How does the brain allow us to think, feel, see, smell, hear, laugh and love? By bringing together world-leading experimental and computational neuroscientists, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre's mission is to explain how activity in brain circuits gives rise to thoughts, sensations, memories and actions.

SWC Virtual Seminar: Cortical circuits for olfactory behavior

Champalimaud Research in Lisbon, Portugal