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The academic environment at The University of Texas at Austin has facilitated much multidisciplinary research directed towards understanding the brain and nervous system. These efforts will grow and multiply in the future as promising lines of enquiry require interactive expertise in biological, behavioral, physical, mathematical, and computational science and engineering. With its strength in all of these areas, UT Austin is well equipped to be able to lead the neuroscience of the future. The Section of Neurobiology is a central focus for neuroscience at UT, in conjunction with the interdepartmental and inter-college Institute for Neuroscience, the Centers for Perceptual Systems and for Learning and Memory, the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, and the Imaging Research Center. Taken together, there is a very impressive amount of fundamental neuroscience research being done here, across many departments and colleges. It is continuing to grow rapidly, as more researchers with diverse backgrounds become interested in aspects of the nervous system, and as more new faculty are recruited.
This an exciting time for research on the brain, and I am confident that the Section of Neurobiology, along with the collective neuroscience community at UT, will continue to make outstanding contributions at all levels of organization of the nervous system, from molecules to cells and circuits, to behavior, learning, and perception. Just as importantly we can facilitate research that moves between these levels, making new connections in ways to understand a system with such astonishing complexity.