DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY

Head of Department:  Károly Elekes, PhD, DSc

    Comparative Neurobiology Research Team

The main research field of the Research Team is the comparative neurobiology of invertebrates, with special attention to the anatomical, physiological and biochemical bases of central and peripheral regulatory processes underlying behaviour. The research activity deals primarily with the complex, multidisciplinary (neuroanatomical, electrophysiological, bioassay, biochemical, molecular-biological, neuroinformatical) analysis of the nervous system in molluscs and arthropods, such as the pulmonate snails, Helix pomatia and Lymnaea stagnalis, and the locust, Locusta migratoria migratorioides, model animals of comparative neurobiology. Special attention is paid to the i) chemical-neuroanatomical organization, functional-morphological and synaptological characterization of networks and their identied elements (Elekes, Hernádi, Serfőző); ii) the physiological and electrophysiological analysis of identified neurons and networks (regulatory systems) membrane ion channels, membrane receptors and intracellular messenger systems (Kiss, Pirger, Bencze), as well as the biochemical-pharmacological characterization of signaling systems membrane receptors (Hiripi, Filla); iii) the organization of neural networks and the strategy of information processing in nerve cells approached by neuroinformatical models, neuronal interactions at cell culture level (Szűcs); iv) neuroembriological investigations aiming at the gangliogenesis, the embryogenesis of chemical specifity of central and peripheral neurons, the development of intercellular connections (synaptogenesis), and the maturation of membrane receptors, and the physiological-behavioral maturation of different behaviors (Elekes, Serfőző, Balogh, Filla). 

 

  ELEKES, Károly

DSc, Head of Team

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  KISS, Tibor

DSc

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  HERNÁDI, László

PhD

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  HIRIPI, László

PhD

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  SZŰCS, Attila

PhD

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  PIRGER, Zsolt

PhD

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  BATTONYAI, Izabella

MSc

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  KRAJCS, Nóra

MSc

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  NACSA, Kálmán

MSc

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  BALÁZS, Boldizsár

system administrator

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  IHÁSZ, Katalin

technician

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  LÁSZLÓ, Zita

technician

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  NAGYNÉ FEKETE, Zsuzsanna

technician

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  PECHL, Vivien

technician

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