Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS)
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (SWC) brings together world-leading scientists to investigate how brain circuits generate perception, form memories, and guide behaviour.
The postdocs of the SWC invite aspiring leaders in neuroscience to present their research to the SWC community in London as part of our Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS).
Applications for ENSS 2025
If you would like to apply for ENSS 2025, please check back in late spring 2025 or sign-up to our newsletter to be alerted when applications re-open.
Thank you for your interest in ENSS.
The SWC ENSS Committee 2024
Diksha Gupta
Kris Jensen
Mehran Ahmadlou
Sara Mederos
Shohei Furutachi
Tyler Boyd-Meredith
Speakers - 2024
The selected speakers for the 2024/2025 Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) are:
- Laura Grima, Postdoctoral Associate at HHMI Janelia Research Campus, who will present: “Dynamics of learning in many option foraging” on 30 January 2025
- Daniel Levenstein, Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University, who will present: “Sequential predictive learning is a unifying theory for hippocampal representation and replay” on 27 February 2025
- Chris Zimmerman, Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton Neuroscience Institute, who will present: “Learning from delayed postingestive feedback” on 13 March 2025
- Noel Federman, Researcher at Institute of Biomedical Research Buenos Aires, who will present: “Beyond the smell: Non-olfactory signals in the olfactory cortex and their influence on sensory discrimination” on 3 April 2025.
Read the news "SWC Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2024/25 winners announced"
Speakers - 2023
The speakers of the 2023 Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) were:
- Alice C. Mosberger, who presented: ‘Distinct aspects of spatial target reaches are learned and controlled through different sensorimotor areas’ on 14 December 2023
- Hannah Payne, who presented: ‘A neural code for remote location during active vision in freely moving birds’ on 11 January 2024
- P. Dylan Rich, who presented: ‘Dynamic neural representations in the hippocampus during flexible navigation’ on 1 February 2024
- Tessa G. Montague, who presented: ‘The neural basis of cuttlefish camouflage’ on 14 March 2024
Read the news: Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2023-24 winners announced
Speakers - 2022
The speakers of the 2022 Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) were:
- Lina Marcela Carmona, Institute: Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, USA
- Teresa Guillamón-Vivancos, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
- Zeynep Okray, University of Oxford, UK
- Megha Sehgal, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Speakers - 2021
The speakers of the 2021 Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) were:
- Dr Zahid Padamsey, Centre of Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
- Dr Shin Kira, Harvard Medical School
- Dr Kevin M. Cury, Columbia University in the City of New York
- Dr Arjun Bharioke and Dr Martin Munz, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology, Basel
Speakers - 2020
The speakers of the 2020 Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) were:
- Dr Silvana Valtcheva, Froemke Lab, New York University
- Dr Tristan Geiller, Losonczy Lab, Columbia University
- Dr Jared Cregg, Kiehn Lab, University of Copenhagen
- Dr Andrew J. P. Fink and Dr Carl E. Schoonover, Axel Lab, Columbia University
Speakers - 2019
The speakers of the 2019 Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) were:
- Dr Mark Wagner, Luo Lab, Stanford University, "Neocortex-cerebellum dynamics during skill acquisition"
- Dr Millie Rincón-Cortés, Grace Lab, University of Pittsburgh, "Stress and Postpartum Effects on the Female Dopamine System"
- Dr Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, Catherine Dulac Lab, Harvard University, "Molecular and cellular dissection of social behavior circuits in mice"
- Dr Elizabeth Holly, Fuccillo Lab, University of Pennsylvania, "Dorsomedial striatal low-threshold spiking interneurons regulate goal-directed learning"
Speakers - 2018
The speakers of the inaugural Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) 2018 were:
- Dr. Graziana Gatto, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Goulding Lab. “Dissecting the spinal circuits for sensorimotor transformation”
- Dr. Sabine Krabbe, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Lüthi Lab. “Adaptive disinhibitory gating by VIP interneurons permits associative learning”
- Dr. Yoav Livneh, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Andermann/Lowell Labs. “Insular cortex selective processing of need-relevant cues via distinct hypothalamic circuits”
- Dr. Alon Rubin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Ziv Lab. “Revealing neural correlates of behavior without behavioral measurements”