Head of Department:  Károly Elekes, PhD, DSc

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	elekes, ext#103
KISS, Tibor	DSc	kisst, ext#222
HERNÁDI, László	PhD	hernadi, ext#130
HIRIPI, László	PhD	hiripi, ext#217
SZŰCS, Attila	PhD	szucs, ext#221
PIRGER, Zsolt	PhD	pirgerzs, ext#220
BATTONYAI, Izabella	MSc	bizabella, ext#130
KRAJCS, Nóra	MSc	knora, ext#220, 222
NACSA, Kálmán	MSc	nkalman, ext#130, 202, 220
BALÁZS, Boldizsár	system administrator	dizsi, ext#101
IHÁSZ, Katalin	technician	ikati, ext#217
LÁSZLÓ, Zita	technician	zita, ext#222
NAGYNÉ FEKETE, Zsuzsanna	technician	fekete, ext#130
PECHL, Vivien	technician	vivien, ext#222