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

Announcing the Speakers of the 2020 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series

Five early career neuroscientists will speak at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre about exciting discoveries in movement, learning, memory and maternal behaviour

SWC building next to BT Tower

Instinct and learning: two sides of the same coin

A new preprint from the SWC examines how instincts and learning work together to generate effective spatial navigation in mice.

10 September 2020

New Postdoctoral Fellowship Fosters International Collaboration

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center are delighted to announce a new collaborative postdoctoral fellowship at the intersection of experiment and theory.

Newly Discovered ‘Shelter-Direction Cells’ Unlock the Mysteries of Escape

The latest preprint from the Branco Lab at the SWC expands scientists’ understanding of the neuronal mechanisms that guide escape when faced with imminent threat.

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.

Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series: Influence of local inhibitory networks on place cell dynamics in CA1

Dr Tristan Geiller

Columbia University

SWC Virtual Seminar: Basal ganglia output pathways for selection amongst incompatible actions

Bernardo Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard University

Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series: Brainstem neurons that command left/right locomotor asymmetries

University of Copenhagen (Denmark)