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

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.

Four Neuroscientists on Their Biggest Questions About the Brain

The speakers of the SWC's 2019 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series tell us how they got where they are—and where they want to go next.

Will Lockdown Loneliness Make Us Loners?

Researchers at UCL find reduced social preference in isolated zebrafish is caused by stress and anxiety, not observed anti-social patterns.

zebrafish raised in isolation vs those raised normally

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: New Tools to Record Neuronal Population Dynamics in Models of Neurological Disease

Professor Peyman Golshani

School of Medicine UCLA

When Industry Meets Academia: Sir Mene Pangalos on improving translation in neuroscience

Sir Mene Pangalos

Executive Vice-President, R&D BioPharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca

Annual Symposium: Neural Interfaces for Neurobiological Insights

SWC/Gatsby Systems Seminars Team