
Director; Professor of Neuroscience
The organisation of circuits for cortical information processing
We partnered with Wellcome to establish this new research centre, where scientists are using state-of-the-art techniques and theoretical models to investigate how circuits in the brain process information to create neural representations and guide behaviour.
Impressive progress has been made over the last 20 years in understanding the organisation and function of the brain. The challenge now is to understand exactly how the brain's neural circuits carry out the information processing that directly underlies behaviour. This quest is driving the development of new technologies and ways of interrogating the brain at ever greater resolution, techniques that lie at the interface of a variety of traditional scientific disciplines, including computation, physics and chemistry.
By developing a world-class research centre which can host a diverse group of scientists with a common interest in the workings of the brain we hope to achieve significant progress towards this goal. The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University College London (UCL) was formally opened in 2016.
Professor Thomas Mrsic-Flogel was appointed as the Director in 2016. An ambitious programme of recruitment is well underway and these scientists will use state-of-the-art molecular, cellular, imaging, electrophysiology and behavioural techniques, supported by theoretical modelling, to investigate how circuits in the brain process information to create neural representations and guide behaviour. The Centre is located on the UCL main campus and complements the current strength of UCL's neuroscience research community and its relationships with other medical research organisations in the local area.
Director; Professor of Neuroscience
The organisation of circuits for cortical information processing
Group Leader
The neural mechanims for learning, inference and memory
Group Leader
Computation of instinctive decisions
Reader in Neural Circuits and Behaviour
Neural circuits for sensory processing and sensory-guided behaviours
Group Leader
Molecular genetics of behaviour – genes’ perspective of brain function
Associate Director; Professor of Systems Neuroscience
The cellular logic of sensory circuits
Group Leader
Circuits for sensory-motor transformation
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Spatial and ethological memory
Group Leader
Principal components of goal-directed behaviour