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19 Things We Learned in 2019

As 2019 comes to a close, we count down the many things we learned this year.

13 December 2019

Sketched equations on wall with questionmarks

Dr Tiago Branco Receives Five Years of ERC Funding

He is one of three researchers at UCL and 50 in the UK to receive a European Research Council Consolidator Grant as part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

11 December 2019

Sepiedeh Keshavarzi on the Role of the Retrosplenial Cortex in Navigation

SWC Senior Research Fellow Dr Sepiedeh Keshavarzi presents her research into how the brain helps animals keep track of their own motion, which is crucial for successful navigation.

20 November 2019

Jess Cardin Says It's a Good Time to Be a Systems Neuroscientist

Dr Cardin sat down with the SWC's Sarah Olesen to discuss how lab work evolves and the importance of perseverance.

24 October 2019

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.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

SWC Seminar: Parallel processing in the social brain: evidence from fragile x and autism

Associate Professor, Brain Science Institute

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

SWC Seminar: Pathway-specific action selection and execution in the posterior parietal cortex

EunJung Hwang, Assistant Project Scientist,

University of California, San Diego

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SWC Seminar: Sex differences in fear expression

Dr Rebecca Shansky

Associate Professor, Northeastern University