The Institute for Neuroscience (INS) is the administrative center for neuroscience research at The University of Texas at Austin. The INS administers the neuroscience graduate program and binds together more than 70 neuroscience related faculty. Research at the INS is diverse with investigators covering all major disciplines and techniques in neuroscience and representing a broad range of research interests, from molecular neuroscience and genetics, through physiology, cellular and systems research, to cognition and behavior and the neurobiology of disease. The multidisciplinary environment fostered by the INS creates a vibrant, collaborative and exciting atmosphere that poises the INS on the cutting edge of neuroscience training and research. INS faculty provide unparalleled opportunities for research and train our graduate students to become critical thinkers capable of understanding the full breadth of conceptual and technical approaches to neuroscience.