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Name: Attila I. Gulyás Ph.D.
Date of birth: 2nd March 1964
Place of birth: Nagykörös, Hungary
Nationality: Hungarian

Hobby: travelling, tracking, canoeing, botany, kite building, wasting time with computers (those who know what is a WAD file can download a DOOM][ level of our department), music

Residential adress and telephone:

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Degrees:

Graduated: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Diploma in Biology 1988
Ph.D.: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1993


Major field of training and research experience:

1986-1988 Student Research Assistant, United Research Organization of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Immunocytochemical and Golgi studies of the cat and human cortex on light- and electron microscopical level. Organization of the GABAergic cells in the cat visual cortex.
Supervisor: Dr Z.F.Kisvarday
10.1987-02.1988 Junior Research Assistant, Department of Pharmacology,Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
Studies on the distribution of GABAA receptor in the cat and rat cortex with immunocytochemical methods.
Supervisor: Prof P.Somogyi
1988-1990.febr. Ph.D. student, United Research Organization of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Semmelweis university
Subcortical innervation of the hippocampus. The role of different types of interneurons in the regulation of hippocampal activity. Anterograde and retrograde tract tracing, light- and electron microscopical immunocytochemistry.
Supervisor: Dr. T.F.Freund
1989. oct. -1989 dec. Ph.D. student, Department of Neurology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
Protective effect of Vigabatrin (GABA transaminase inhibitor), and a new NMDA receptor antagonist against perforant pathway stimulation evoked epilepsy.
1990. march-1993 october Ph.D. student, Department of Functional Neuroanatomy, Institute of Experimental Medicine
1991 november-1992 january, Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Correlated electrophysiological and anatomical measurements on the connections between excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the CA3 area of the guine-pig hippocampus in vitro.
1993 october-recently Research Fellow, Department of Functional Neuroanatomy, Institute of Experimental Medicine
1994 december- till 1995 november, Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France on the long-term fellowship of the HFSP
Combined electrophysiological, pharmacological and anatomical studies of inhibitory cells in the CA1 area of the in vitro hippocampal slice.
1995 december-
Quantitative description of the afferent connectivity of neurochemically identified or intracellularly filled inrterneuron subpopulations.

Publication list


Present position:

Research Fellow

Department of Functional Neuroanatomy
Institute of Experimental Medicine.
P.O.B. 67
Budapest
H-1450
HUNGARY
tel:(36-1)-2100-812
fax: (36-1)-2100-812 or 2100-813
E-mail:

Present research:

Characterisation of different types of interneurons in the hippocampal formation on the basis of their connectivity, neurochemical marker content and electrophysiological properties. Anatomical evaluation of combined electrophysiological and anatomical experiments on identified pairs of pyramidal and inhibitory cells, in order to reveal the characteristics of unitary excitatory and inhibitory transmission.

Awards and Prices:

The Young Investigator Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992)

1995 KRIEG KORTIKAL KUDOS Cortical Explorer Prize


C r e a t e d by Attila Gulyas at

Department of Functional Neuroanatomy,
Institute of Experimental Medicine,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Budapest, P.O.Box 67 ,
H-1450, Hungary;
tel:(36-1)-2100-812
fax: (36-1)-2100-812 or 2100-813
e-mail:

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