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Could a PhD be the right fit for me? To help answer this question for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre was excited to host the first ever In2research Away Day.

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.

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.

Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL have discovered how individual and networks of cells in an area of the brain called the retrosplenial cortex encode angular head motion in mice to enable navigation both during the day and at night.

BrainGlobe, an open-source, community-driven platform for computational neuroanatomy, has today been awarded two grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.