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sainsburywellcomecentre has been a member of Linktree for 7 years and joined in October 2019. Resources sainsburywellcomecentre has populated their site with include: • Sainsbury Wellcome Centre homepage • Zapit: democratising random-access optogenetics • A Danionella cerebrum atlas joins BrainGlobe • PhD Application Info Panel Tickets, Tuesday 13 October • 6 PM - 7:30 PM | Eventbrite • PhD Programme | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre • Dr Samuel Liebana granted Wellcome Early-Career Award • Then and Now: Tiago Branco Unveils How the Brain Computes Behavior • Symposium: What can Neuroscience teach us about the Mind? | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre • Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2026/27 winners announced • The SWC Lecture: Julia Gillard Tickets, 10 September • 4 PM - 5 PM • Muscle memories: how does sleep produce consolidation? • New female rat brain atlases added to BrainGlobe • SWC at FENS Forum 2026 • Fellowship Sponsorship • Two signals, one decision: cracking the brain's value code • Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) • Map of the Month: April 2026 - On dopamine, TH and Parkinson's diesease - Map of the Month | Podcast on Spotify • Using Pac-Man to reveal how we make decisions • Scientists map the blackcap bird brain, opening a new era of 3D digital atlases • Neuronauts • AI, embodiment and neuroscience • Current Vacancies • 6 reasons why your brain needs sleep • SWC at COSYNE 2026 • Lights, neurons, action: Reconstructing movies from mouse brain activity • Resources for teachers • The language of geometry • What fruit flies are teaching us about the need for sleep • A 3D digital atlas for the wing disc of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster — BrainGlobe • Current Vacancies - Scientific Instrument Maker • Watch our Annual Lectures • Inside the social brain: What mice teach us about learning from others • Decoding emotion • The SWC Lecture • SWC part of international team awarded ERC Synergy Grant funding • How does music impact the brain? Neuroscientists explain • Fear protects. Until it doesn’t. • Sleep, science and society • SWC PhD Programme • Exploring how neural activity shapes brain development • From simulation theory to sleep science: a journey into the brain • Do parrots really speak? Lessons in lexical access from budgerigars | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre • The BrainGlobe Initiative wins 2025 International Prize • London exhibition inaugural event: "The art and legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal" • Ready, set, go • What can rodent societies teach us about our own? Insights from neuroscience | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre • Is the grass greener? Exploring how the brain decides when to move on • Working memory representations: practice makes perfect • SWC Online Seminar: Tracking the formation of long-term motor memory • Complete brain activity map revealed for the first time • Making Habits (with Dr Francesca Greenstreet) by Neuroverse • Professor Tim Behrens awarded prestigious Faraday Discovery Fellowship • Newsletter sign up • The neuroscience of learning: 12 tips to optimise your brain • Professor Tiago Branco receives Wellcome Discovery Award | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre • Teaching, learning and the joy of discovery at BrainCamp Kosovo • SWC Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2025/26 winners announced • Will we ever understand the brain? 12 leading neuroscientists reflect • The cells of sleep • SWC Awarded 5th Gold LEAF for lab sustainability • Lotophagi project: an experience for artists, people living with dementia and their carers • Mini microscopes: advances in two-photon imaging for neuroscience • Resources for Teachers | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre • From music to neuroscience: decoding the brain through birdsong • From PhD to PI: a neuroscientist’s mission to map environmental stressors • Flexible minds: how do we decide what to do next? • Long-term learning trajectories: uncovering the role of dopamine • The Junction sponsored by Sainsbury Wellcome Centre - The Fitzrovia Partnership • Dr Mehran Ahmadlou to lead new group at the University of Oxford • SWC (Hybrid) Seminar - Dr Dietmar Plenz • UCL Neuroscience Symposium 2025 • The class of 2025: Meet this year’s ABSW Media Fellows • What makes us human? • May Newsletter • Public Engagement • Scientists discover new way the brain learns • SWC Hybrid Seminar: A synaptic account of birdsong learning • Cuttlefish camouflage: understanding the brain mechanisms • What's in a smell? • Scientific Sense - Podcast Episode feat. Prof. Jeffrey C. Erlich • ‘Build a Brain’ course empowers next generation at London AI Campus • From holiday to histology: fostering global knowledge exchange | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre • April 2025 Newsletter • The Social Brain: Symposium 2025 • Approaching a career crossroads in light of our values • Film Screening and Panel Discussion: The Magic of Chaos • Imagining the future: exploring the role of hippocampal replay • Mapping the brain’s superhighways within and across cortical hemispheres • The Magic of Chaos - Film Screening and Panel Discussion • It must be something I ate – How the brain learns what made you sick • Exploring the geometry of decision-making • March 2025 Newsletter • Replaying the past, predicting the future: A new model of the hippocampus • Making sense of rhythms in the brain | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre • Bridging senses and disciplines • Google Summer of Code • How AI is helping us to understand how our brains learn - Podcast • February 2025 Newsletter • Heron: A Knowledge Graph editor for intuitive implementation of python based experimental pipelines • Decoding confidence: lessons from the lab • The do’s and don’ts of publishing in Nature Neuroscience • Neuroscience FoMO: Foraging across Many Options • Scientists solve the brain’s motion-source separation problem • Professor Andrew Saxe announced as a 2025 Blavatnik Awards in the UK Finalist • Unlocking neural diversity: A new tool for multimodal profiling of brain cell types • International Day of Women and Girls in Science • Scientists discover brain mechanism that helps overcome fear • From dawn to dusk: the science behind light and circadian rhythms • Decoding motivation: How the brain drives behaviour • ENSS 2025 talk • January Newsletter • Could computation connect the origins of life and intelligence? • Neuroscience FoMO: Foraging across Many Options | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre • Deep RL and the future of AI • Neuroscience careers journeys – Microscopy Specialist • Making neuroscience sustainable • How do internal states shape learning? • Neuronauts: Building scientific confidence • Reimagining the role of the dorsal striatum • The SWC Lecture: Blaise Agüera y Arcas • Neuroscience career journeys - Aquatics Manager • Dr Oliver Gauld granted Wellcome Early-Career Award • Hopfield, Hinton, and Hassabis: 2024 Nobel laureates shaping neuroscience • Igniting a passion for neuroscience • Brain acts like music box playing different behaviours • The science of wakefulness • Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme • Getting a taste of science journalism at IFLScience • Shaping futures in neuroscience – A case study from TReND-CaMinA • BrainGlobe Initiative celebrates open-source software award • October Newsletter • Neuroscience career journeys – Research Technician • A day in the life of a Research Software Engineer • Meet the Expert: Michael Bukwich • O'Keefe Lab • Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2024/25 winners announced • Neuroverse: Panel Discussion • Crabitats and comparisons: a day in the life of a Research Assistant at SWC • Navigating space: dual maps discovered in the brain • SWC September Newsletter • The Unexpected Brain with Neuroscientist Sonja Hofer • Teacher Experience Day • Brain-wide decision-making dynamics discovered • Careers In Neuroscience • Newly Discovered Brain Mechanism Helps Us Handle Surprises • Career Development and Growth Opportunities at SWC • Prioritising the unexpected: new brain mechanism uncovered • TReND-CaMinA: improving access to computational neuroscience and machine learning in Africa • Brain waves: causes, correlations and controversies • The BrainBook • Dr. Jasmine Reggiani | IFLScience • July 2024 Newsletter • Mysteries of sleep: insights and discoveries • Urban Labs: Fostering Innovation Through Collaborative Design • Understanding sensory and gastrointestinal differences in autism spectrum disorder • Teacher Encounters • Dr Edmund Chong receives Wellcome Early-Career Award • Brain’s ‘escape switch’ controlled by threat sensitivity dial • How does space travel impact astronauts’ kidneys? SWC Advanced Microscopy team aids new study • Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2024 • SWC selected to present at ESLAV-ECLAM-AAALAC Conference • June newsletter • Inaugural symposium brings animal technicians together • Neuronauts Summer School 2024 • Neuroinformatics Unit paves way for open science initiative • Careers Live broadcast recording • Gaze and cooperative strategy: interareal interactions in the social brain • Tunnelling into social codes of the bat hippocampus • Tom George: Pint of Science • Navigating real-world challenges at the Neuronauts School Club • Tracking behaviour in 3D • Peter Gordon: Pint of Science • Network model unifies recency and central tendency biases • Unveiling camouflage and decoding neural mechanisms in cuttlefish • Integration of touch and vision in the cortex • Emergence of collective intelligence collaboration awarded research grant • Synapse pruning in development and Alzheimer’s • Exploring the gap between knowledge and performance • Job details - Scientific Communications and Engagement Manager • March newsletter • Exploring the maze of goal-directed behaviour • Julia Harris on BBC Radio 6 Music at 8.30am 11 March • ENSS: The neural basis of cuttlefish camouflage • Unlocking the brain’s symphony with neural manifolds • SWC at COSYNE 2024 • Teaching artificial networks how animals pose • Understanding real world learning in adolescence • SWC Hybrid Seminar: Saving the Synapse in Development and Alzheimer’s disease • February newsletter • RatInABox: a new toolkit for modelling navigation in the brain • SWC scientists inspire ripples of curiosity at local school #WomenInScience • Investigating the role of sleep in future behaviour #WomenInScience • Towards a mechanistic understanding of psychosis #WomenInScience • Dr Athena Akrami selected for ERC Consolidator Grant #WomenInScience • From scratch to dispatch: growing an accessible neuroscience programme for adolescents #WomenInScience • Peeking inside the black box with recurrent neural networks #WomenInScience • Simple pleasures: regulating feeding and social interactions #WomenInScience • Dr Chunyu Ann Duan awarded ERC Starting Grant #WomenInScience • Multisensory learning: insights from fruit flies #WomenInScience • Memory linking in dendritic branches #WomenInScience • For communication between brain areas, milliseconds matter #WomenInScience • Channelling sensory cues to sensory pathways #WomenInScience • Motor learning: understanding the role of cell types and cell states #WomenInScience • Neuroscientists identify role of basolateral amygdala neurons #WomenInScience • Examining neural mechanisms of reinforcement learning #WomenInScience • Forcing behaviour in a handful of neurons to understand learning #WomenInScience • New study uncovers brain circuits that control fear responses #WomenInScience • Uncovering the grammar of neural coding structures #WomenInScience • Central tendency bias linked to short-term history effects #WomenInScience • ENSS: Dynamic neural representations in the hippocampus during flexible navigation • Could food-caching birds help elucidate memory formation? • Collaborating towards genetic tools to study visually-guided behaviours • Revealing the hidden precision of inhibitory circuits • Reaching for rewards: how spatial targets are learned • Professor Linda Wilbrecht joins SWC Resident Scholar Programme • ENSS: A neural code for remote location during active vision in birds • Preparing to make learned movements • ENSS: How are reaches to spatial targets learned? A mouse model to dissect sensorimotor control of forelimb reaches • Neuronauts School Club 2024 • Illustrating the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Brand • Exploring individual variability in cognitive behaviour • November newsletter • Dr Athena Akrami selected for ERC Consolidator Grant • Understanding crowd behaviour: have we learned from Covid-19? • From scratch to dispatch: growing an accessible neuroscience programme for adolescents • Lottery-Loving Rats Reveal How the Brain Handles Uncertainty • 11 memory tips from leading neuroscientists • Solving problems through replay in the brain • YouTube Recording: Professor Tiago Branco, Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2023 • Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2023-24 winners announced • Keeping track of time and numbers: Brains versus machines • Scientists explain how the brain encodes lottery values • #IAmABiologist career profiles • SWC Research Mission • UCL Brain Stories podcast - LIVE • Tina O’Mahony wins Janet Wood Innovation Award for Outstanding Contribution • SWC Research Culture • Peeking inside the black box with recurrent neural networks • Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2023: Professor Tiago Branco • Meet the Expert: Haran Shani-Narkiss • Meet the Expert: Sara Mederos • Engaging with teachers to nurture the next generation of neuroscientists • The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It • Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2023 • August newsletter • Celebrating another chapter of sustainability at SWC • Cross-area coupling and consolidation during sleep • July newsletter • Studying social behaviours at a cellular level • Untangling the neural bases of prosocial behaviour • Julia Harris to open Sleep Lab at SWC • Build a Brain Hat • SWC Lecture 2023 - Professor Stephen Reicher • Learning from models of suboptimal learning • Win a tour of SWC for your class! • Tickets CogX Festival 2023 • Tim Behrens joins SWC as Group Leader • Motivated mice matter: Refining fluid control • Crossing boundaries: from the blood-brain barrier to the disciplines of science • Exploring the four realms of existence • SWC scientists inspire ripples of curiosity at local school • The SWC Lecture: Professor Stephen Reicher • UCL academics elected to Academy of Medical Sciences • Multisensory learning: insights from fruit flies • CogX Festival tickets • Memory linking in dendritic branches • Animal Research at SWC • Developing Heron, the progeny of Bonsai and ROS • Structured exploration allows biological brains to learn faster than AI • How do neural circuits implement flexible decisions? • Unravelling the diversity of foraging strategies • Probing the role of dopamine in motivational states • Converging toward closed-loop perception • Impact of AI and Neuroscience on the Future of Education • Making data sharing easier for neuroscience • Understanding hippocampal predictive maps: a three-pronged approach • Will artificial general intelligence one day be conscious? • Will AI ever be as flexible as humans? • Learning to learn: sacrificing short-term reward for long-term gain • How do you define intelligence in the context of behaviour? • Simple pleasures: regulating feeding and social interactions • CogX Festival 2023 tickets • Neural circuits for spatial orientation in adult and aged brain • Interview with Nicole Vissers • Interview with Shanice Bailey • Interview with Clementine Domine • Interview with Ann Duan • Interview with Sara Mederos • Sign-up to the RSA House symposium • Associate Professor Andrew Saxe named a 2023 Blavatnik Awards in the UK Finalist in Life Sciences • Motor learning: understanding the role of cell types and cell states • Targeting neuronal cell types for repair • Switching between egocentric and allocentric coordinates • NeuroDataShare 2023 • How does the brain represent categories? • Brain circuit that converts spatial goals to escape actions discovered • 21 recommended brain hacks from leading neuroscientists • Understanding the brain: 5 key implications for society • Channelling sensory cues to sensory pathways • From a systems neuroscience PhD to a postdoc in visual research • Neural pathways for regulating fear responses • Reflecting causality in synaptic changes • SWC celebrates inaugural year of In2research programme • Dr Chunyu Ann Duan awarded ERC Starting Grant • Unearthing episodic memory through studying food-caching birds • Neuroscientists welcome a paradigm shift in sensory physiology • SWC receives international animal welfare accreditation • SWC PhD Programme Application • Treating space as a sequence • Examining neural mechanisms of reinforcement learning • SWC PhD programme video • Collaborating toward the next telescope for experimental neuroscience • Making research accessible with an intuitive visual programming language • Forcing behaviour in a handful of neurons to understand learning • From humans to machines – how language shapes our worlds • 12 pieces of career advice from leading neuroscientists • Neuronauts: the foundation of a neuroscience summer camp at SWC • How does the brain use memories to make predictions? • September newsletter • Uncovering the grammar of neural coding structures • 2022 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series winners announced • Attention and running influence individual brain cells independently • Watch the full PhD Programme video • The caudal prethalamus: Inhibitory switchboard for behavioral control? • Apply to in2research • Pursuing a PhD in neuroscience • Professor Tiago Branco awarded Francis Crick Medal and Lecture • Senses in Motion Symposium • What is a neuroscience PhD really like? • Auditory adaptations: from everyday listening to compensating for hearing loss • Embarking on a PhD in systems neuroscience • Investigating the role of sleep in future behaviour • From a neuroscience PhD to building software for learning • Cognition in the noise • Embracing the intersection between neuroscience, physics, and art • Understanding the dynamic complexity of sleep and visual texture perception • Exploring the function of dopamine in reward-driven action • Working memory depends on reciprocal interactions across the brain • Collective Cognitive Capital: Using brain and behavioural science to evaluate public policy • Cooling the cortex to understand vocal communication • Honeycomb maze reveals role of hippocampus in navigation decisions • Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2022 • Traversing the interface between art and neuroscience • Joint SWC/GCNU Group Leader awarded Schmidt Science Polymaths Award • SWC Lecture 2022: Collective Cognitive Capital • For communication between brain areas, milliseconds matter! • Neuroscientists identify role of basolateral amygdala neurons • Neuroscientists demonstrate flexibility of innate behaviour • Mice choose best escape route without ever experiencing threat • Controlling the order and timing of action sequences • Emotions London Recording • Nurturing a culture of care at SWC • Improving translation in neuroscience • 8 ways to improve translation between industry and academia in neuroscience • Register for "Love and its emotional implications" • What can cortical layer 5 teach us about unconsciousness and development? • 13 fascinating facts about the brain from leading neuroscientists • How does cellular complexity in GPe control movement? • April newsletter • SWC hosts first ever In2research Away Day • Social connection and resilience to stress • How can research culture be improved in neuroscience? • Become a Junior Group Leader • What does it mean to understand the brain? • Context-dependent neural codes: task-agnostic or task-specific? • Accurate determination of marker location within whole-brain microscopy images • Enabling flexibility in innate behavioural sequences • Making sense of flexible decision-making in navigation • SWC and GCNU receive an Athena Swan Bronze Award • Jeffrey Erlich appointed Group Leader at SWC • December newsletter • How to give an eye exam to a mouse • Neuroscience Early Career Prize Winners Showcase • Fostering an open and supportive research community at SWC • Towards a mechanistic understanding of psychosis • Exploring collective behaviour in biological, artificial and neural agents • Neuroscientists illuminate how brain cells ‘navigate’ in the light and dark • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards two grants to BrainGlobe • Apply to the 2022 SWC PhD Programme • Planning, knowledge, and motor skill • Is coding precision in the brain reduced during food scarcity to save energy? • Studying decision-making in natural environments • SWC sponsors STEM programme for students from under-represented backgrounds • New study uncovers brain circuits that control fear responses • Biology Week [1/3]: Video about how neuroscientists are discovering the way the brain generates behaviour • Biology Week [2/3]: 13 fascinating facts about the brain from leading neuroscientists • Biology Week [3/3]: Kahoot Quiz • How do we experience time and form memories? • Learn about our PhD programme • Sign-up to our Annual Student Symposium • Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2021 winners announced • Inquisitive minds seek to improve sustainability at SWC • Extracting rational thoughts from behaviour • Perceptual decision-making in Parkinson’s • Summer newsletter • How important is cell type in decision-making? • Navigating to safety by memorising subgoals • Long COVID: Turning anecdotes into evidence • Uncovering internal representations in the hypothalamus • How does the brain perceive time to enable cognition? • Using deep learning to aid 3D cell detection in whole brain microscopy images • Andrew Saxe joins GCNU and SWC as Joint Group Leader • Ann Duan's latest paper on executive control • Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series • Zebrafish Q&A with Dr Yu Mu • Robofish helps researchers understand collective behaviour • Exploring how the thalamus contributes to cognition • Nature Communications paper by Chunyu Ann Duan • Improving translation by building bridges between industry and academia • Professor Viviana Gradinaru joins SWC Resident Scholar Programme • Q&A with Dr Sarah Ruediger • Meet Anna, SWC PhD student working on Neuropixels 2.0 • Check out our April newsletter • Q&A with Dr Carl Schoonover and Dr Andrew Fink • Brainrender: visualising brain data in 3D • Meet Nicole Vissers, PhD student at SWC • Dr Cindy Poo investigates the neuroscience of smell • In the news: Women in Science • Dr Sarah Melzer aims to uncover the neural basis of fear memories • Equipping artificial intelligence with motivation • How do animals’ decision-making strategies evolve through learning? • Mouse-controlled mouse helps researchers understand intentional control • Newly Discovered ‘Shelter-Direction Cells’ Unlock the Mysteries of Escape • Four Young Neuroscientists on Their Biggest Questions About the Brain • Virtual Seminar: Dr David Fitzpatrick, CEO & Scientific Director, Max Planck Florida • Will Lockdown Make Us Loners? • Lean, Mean Milling Machine • Neuroscience for Kosovo • Masters of Escape • Dr Laure Rondi-Reig and Professor Tom Otis discuss the cerebellum • Ties that Bind: Dr Ann Clemens looks for the neural mechanisms of kinship • We collaborated on an open-source microscope • SciDraw • Neurons that fire together don't always wire together