Welcome to Istvan Mihaly and Istvan Lukacs, who will spend their European Erasmus scholarship in the Unit this summer. They just finished 5^th year medicine at the Medical University of Targu Mures, Romania. Istvan Mihaly joins David Dupret’s group and is supervised by Dr Pavel Perestenko in new virus-based labelling methodologies, optogenetics and immunocytochemistry. He plans to specialise in the field of clinical and experimental neurology. Istvan Lukacs has visited many times, and is exploring the synaptic targets of pyramidal cells recorded and labelled in vitro in the human associational cerebral cortex using microscopic methods.