Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

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The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre aims to discover the fundamental principles of how the brain drives behaviour. Based at UCL, funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Wellcome.
Websitehttps://www.sainsburywellcome.org/

Dr @dimokaramanlis , University of Geneva, recently spoke at SWC as a winner of the Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series.

He discussed his work on social decision-making in mice.

Read more in our latest Q&A ⤵️

https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/inside-social-brain-what-mice-teach-us-about-learning-others

New preprint from Oliver Gauld, Chaofei Bao, Ann Duan, et. al. uncovers a circuit mechanism linking decisions to actions

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Blog: https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/value-movement-scientists-uncover-circuit-mechanism-linking-decisions-actions

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693624v1

Professor Daniel Salzman (Columbia University) recently visited SWC to discuss his work on the basolateral amygdala.

His research shows how the brain extracts distinct emotional signals from ensembles of neurons that individually respond to many different variables.

Read more in our latest Q&A ⤵️

https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/decoding-emotion

Remembering Adam Kampff, a dear friend, inspirational teacher, and a remarkable human being. He dedicated his life to broadening scientific education and demystifying modern technology to young people around the world.

https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-news/remembering-adam-kampff-1979-2025

RE: https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/115643481413121555

Please join us in London August 24-28 2026 for a week long BrainGlobe course.

We will teach you how to use the tools and how to contribute back to the wider BrainGlobe ecosystem.

Apply now!

https://neuroinformatics.dev/open-software-summer-school

A new preprint from SWC reveals the brain selects the most cost-efficient short-term memory strategy depending on task demands.

Preprint ⤵️
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.28.691186v1

Blog ⤵️
https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/new-findings-rewrite-understanding-short-term-memory

With Jingjie Li, Ariel Xu, Chaofei Bao, Albert Albesa-González, Liujunli Li, Claudia Clopath and @jerlich

The science of reading: From neuroscience to the classroom

Join us on 2 Dec at 12pm for this year’s SWC Lecture, with Professor Stanislas Dehaene, Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Collège de France

Free and open to all. Register here:
https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-swc-lecture-professor-stanislas-dehaene-tickets-1953052315049?aff=oddtdtcreator

In a recent SWC Seminar, Dr Elif Engin (Harvard University) shared insights from her latest work on GABA-A receptors.

In our new Q&A, she expands on her research and what it could mean for understanding and treating mood and anxiety disorders. ⤵️

https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/balancing-brain-gaba-receptors-mood-and-cognition

Balancing the brain: GABA receptors in mood and cognition | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

We’re thrilled to announce that Professor Stanislas Dehaene, Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Collège de France, will deliver the SWC Lecture 2025!

His talk: ‘The science of reading: From neuroscience to the classroom’

Get your tickets ⤵️

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-swc-lecture-professor-stanislas-dehaene-tickets-1953052315049?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Check out our posters today ⤵️

Daniel Yang: “Low-cost open-source wireless random-access opto-stimulation” PSTR422.04/XX10 and online: https://github.com/erlichlab/optogrid

Sarah Elnozahy: “Sensory prediction errors update predictive representations” PSTR451.07

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The science of reading: From neuroscience to the classroom

Join us on 2 Dec at 12pm for this year’s SWC Lecture, with Professor Stanislas Dehaene, Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Collège de France

Free and open to all. Register here:
https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-swc-lecture-professor-stanislas-dehaene-tickets-1953052315049?aff=oddtdtcreator