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Ryan Cini is a Research Technician, working in the Mrsic-Flogel and Behrens Labs. He is researching the grid cells that allow animals to understand their position in space by storing and integrating information about location, distance, and direction. He talked to us about his career and shares his advice for anyone considering working in neuroscience.

Laura Porta, Senior Research Software Engineer, speaks about her passion for making software tools that can benefit the neuroscience community.

Sanna Titus is a Research Assistant, studying and caring for Fiddler crabs in our aquariums, or as they have been fondly termed, “crabitats”. A marine biologist by training, she is working with her team to establish the crabs as a species for neuroscience research. Sanna talks to us about careers, bird impersonations, and her path to working neuroscience.

Optogenetics has transformed neuroscience. But as with any groundbreaking technique, it comes with its own set of challenges. Here’s the story of how one such challenge led to the discovery of off-target effects of light stimulation used to activate genetically encoded light channels and how these might be overcome.

Aimed at enhancing scientific capacity in one of the regions most affected by scientific inequality, the CaMinA summer school seeks to engage students in computational neuroscience and machine learning. SWC PhD student Tom George shares his story.

To understand how the brain responds to feedback, researchers set up a perceptual task for participants and used electroencephalography to measure their brain activity related to an area called the anterior cingulate cortex, which is known to be crucial in dynamic environments. The findings from the study provide insights into differences in updating perceptual priors and testing whether reduced error monitoring could act as a reliable biomarker for autism.

In a pioneering study that bridges the realms of space exploration and biomedical science, a UCL-led team of researchers embarked upon a mission to understand the effects of space travel on kidney health. The SWC Advanced Microscopy team played a pivotal role in this research, providing cutting-edge imaging techniques that were crucial to the study’s success.