Students at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) study toward a PhD in either Experimental Neuroscience or Systems and Theoretical Neuroscience. The four-year programme starts with a semester of coursework and three laboratory rotations, and students select a PhD project and advisor at the start of the second year. The SWC will provide intensive training in experimental techniques, including imaging, physiology, molecular, and behavioural methods. First-year students will build their own two-photon microscope, implement a 1,000 channel in vivo recording system, design viral tools for circuit tracing, and develop a closed-loop behaviour assay. Research areas: Cellular logic of sensory circuits; Circuits for sensory-motor transformation; Computation of instinctive decisions; Molecular genetics of behaviour; Neural circuits for sensory processing and sensory-guided behaviours; Neural mechanisms of intelligence; Organisation of circuits for cortical information processing.