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How does the brain coordinate multiple, and sometimes competing, basic needs? In a SWC Seminar, Professor Tatiana Korotkova shared her research on regulating behaviours like feeding and social interactions. In this Q&A, she touches on why her lab focuses on the lateral hypothalamus, the techniques they are using to investigate and some surprising findings to date.

After discovering a way to evolve viruses to precisely target neural circuits, Dr Andy Murray knew this interesting science could lead to exciting therapeutic applications. Whilst Group Leader of the Murray Lab at SWC, Andy patented the technology platform and began his journey to co-found gene therapy company Sania Therapeutics.

In the second Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) talk of 2022, Dr Lina Marcela Carmona outlined her work exploring potential mechanisms that could mediate motor learning in mice. In this Q&A, she shares her experience with the SWC ENSS initiative, her key findings so far and the next steps for her research.

How does understanding the visual system and applying that understanding to treat its disorders come hand-in-hand in a research lab? Professor Botond Roska recently gave a SWC seminar on neuronal cell-type based medicine for visual dysfunction repair.

In a recent SWC Seminar, Dr Andrew Alexander shared his research on the role of the brain’s association cortices in transformations between allocentric and egocentric coordinate systems. In this Q&A, he discusses how he got interested in researching this topic, some of his key findings, and the next steps.

How does the brain learn and represent categories? In a recent SWC Seminar, Dr Pieter Goltstein discussed his work exploring how the representation of a learned category in the mouse prefrontal cortex, as well as in higher visual areas, emerges over time.

In the first Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) talk of 2022, Dr Teresa Guillamón Vivancos shared her work on the input-dependent segregation of visual and somatosensory circuits in the mouse superior colliculus. In this Q&A she delves into the SWC ENSS initiative and shares more about her research in sensory perception.

In a SWC Seminar, Professor Alison Barth shared her work exploring synaptic changes in the brain during association learning. In this Q&A, she touches on how she came to research the topic, her most surprising findings, methodology, and more.