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SWC sponsors STEM programme for students from under-represented backgrounds

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre is delighted to announce funding and support for a new programme, In2research, from social mobility charity In2scienceUK.

11 October 2021

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New study uncovers brain circuits that control fear responses

Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre have discovered a brain mechanism that enables mice to override their instincts based on previous experience.

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Identification of over 200 long COVID symptoms prompts call for UK screening programme

Patients who experience long COVID have reported more than 200 symptoms across 10 organ systems*, in the largest international study of ‘long-haulers’ to date, led by UCL scientists together with the Patient-Led Research Collaborative.

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Andrew Saxe joins GCNU and SWC as Joint Group Leader

We are excited to announce that Andrew Saxe has been appointed Joint Group Leader at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. His lab will focus on the theory of deep learning and its applications to phenomena in neuroscience and psychology.

Brain-wide vasculature visualized by gene delivery to the bloodstream. Credit: Sripriya Ravindra Kumar in the Gradinaru laboratory at the California Institute of Technology

Professor Viviana Gradinaru joins SWC Resident Scholar Programme as Leverhulme Visiting Professor

We are delighted to announce that Professor Viviana Gradinaru will be joining SWC as a Resident Scholar from April–August 2021. Professor Gradinaru is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge tools for systems neuroscience and we are really excited to have her visit us and share her expertise in neurotechnologies.

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Modelling the mind with mathematics

In her new book, Models of the Mind, Grace Lindsay, joint SWC-Gatsby Research Fellow, describes how the elegant language of mathematics provides the tools required to understand the machinery of neuroscience.

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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

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Mouse-controlled mouse helps researchers understand intentional control

Study sheds light on how the brain represents causally-controlled objects.

22 December 2020

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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.

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Researchers Reveal Mouse and Human Eye Movements Share Some Important Similarities

A team of scientists at UCL, University of Cambridge and Radboud University developed an innovative method of studying naturalistic eye movements in mice and discovered similarities and differences with human eye movements.

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

High Risk High Reward: Neuroscientists discover the key to motivational behaviours

Researchers identify specialised neural circuits that control reward-seeking and punishment-avoiding behaviour