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Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

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RESEARCH CULTURE

Interdisciplinary collaboration on the brain

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TRANSFORMATIVE TRAINING

Creating future leaders in neuroscience

SWC and GCNU receive an Athena Swan Bronze Award

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (GCNU) at UCL are pleased to announce we have received an Athena Swan Bronze Award for our commitment to promoting gender equality.

13 January 2022

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Jeffrey Erlich appointed Group Leader at SWC

We are delighted to announce that Dr Jeffrey Erlich has joined the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre as a Group Leader. Jeffrey Erlich’s lab at SWC will focus on three central research topics: the neurobiology of economic preferences, social cognition and spatial cognition.

10 January 2022

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How to give an eye exam to a mouse

In a recent SWC Virtual Seminar, Dr Cristopher Niell highlighted the need for studying ethologically relevant goal-directed behaviours in light of his research. In this Q&A, he expands on the use of prey capture in mice, as well as the octopus as a promising model organism, to answer such questions.

9 December 2021

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Embracing the intersection between neuroscience, physics, and art

Clementine Domine shares her journey in science, from studying theoretical physics at undergraduate level to progressing a PhD in the Saxe lab at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (GCNU) and SWC.

8 December 2021

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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: Synchronous activity in the recurrent network of cortical layer 5: Unconsciousness and development

Arjun Bharioke and Martin Munz

Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB)