We created a mini series with the support of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre's (SWC) public engagement grant to shine light on the fascinating research that is ongoing in the centre. In this series, we focus on circuits, systems, and computational neuroscience, interviewing researchers across levels (PhD students to principal investigators) to gain insights into how they are attempting to understand the brain as a dynamic and complex machine that drives behaviour. 

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SWC's research mission is to discover the fundamental principles of how information travels through biological matter, and how this enables the brain to ultimately drive behaviour. The starting point for research in the centre is primarily behaviour- how can specific behaviours can be studied, quantified, and probed? Th questions that follow are how networks in the brain and computations in neural circuits and in individual neurons are involved. Together with the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (GCNU), SWC aims to provide algorithmic explanations of behaviour.

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Episodes in this series:

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53. Challenges of Collaborative Neuroscience & the Impact of Generative AI (with Jai Bhagat)

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55. Predictive Processing and Flexible Control of Behaviour (with Professor Sonja Hofer)

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65. Designing Generative Models (with Pierre Glaser)

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74. Neural Computation of Naturalistic Behaviours (with Professor Tiago Branco)

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77. Dynamics of Strategy Learning of Deep Neural Networks (with Aaditya Singh)

 

...and more to come!

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To conclude the series, we are hosting a panel event at SWC with some of our guest speakers to discuss a common theme and question that has emerged upon recording the series- "Will machine learning/computational models ever be able to replicate or capture the full complexity of the brain". Join us on Oct 22nd at 6pm at SWC for the interactive session that it fully open to the public- be sure to sign up at this link as there is limited availability.​