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5870
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  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Gábor Tamás is affiliated with the University of Szeged in Hungary and specializes in Neuroscience, with 70 publications in the field. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neurology, and Biophysics. The main topics of their scientific work include Neural dynamics and brain function, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, and Cell Image Analysis Techniques.

The scientist has contributed to numerous papers, several of which are recent and published in high-impact journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Signature morphoelectric properties of diverse GABAergic interneurons in the human neocortex (2023, Science)
  • Morphoelectric and transcriptomic divergence of the layer 1 interneuron repertoire in human versus mouse neocortex (2023, Science)
  • Elevation of hilar mossy cell activity suppresses hippocampal excitability and avoidance behavior (2021, Cell Reports)
  • Automatic deep learning-driven label-free image-guided patch clamp system (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Robust perisomatic GABAergic self-innervation inhibits basket cells in the human and mouse supragranular neocortex (2020, eLife)

Gábor Tamás frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, IBRO Neuroscience Reports, Nature Neuroscience, and Science. Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with researchers including Pál Barzó, Gábor Molnár, Gáspár Oláh, Éva Csajbók, and Martin Tóth.

Their academic recognition includes being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Lidia Alonso-Nanclares;Stewart A. Anderson;German Barrionuevo

  • Salient features of synaptic organisation in the cerebral cortex

    Peter Somogyi;Gábor Tamás;Rafael Lujan;Eberhard H. Buhl

  • New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons

    Javier DeFelipe;Pedro L. López-Cruz;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Concha Bielza

  • Proximally Targeted GABAergic Synapses and Gap Junctions Synchronize Cortical Interneurons

    Gábor Tamás;Gábor Tamás;Eberhard H. Buhl;Eberhard H. Buhl;Andrea Lörincz;Andrea Lörincz;Peter Somogyi

  • Excitatory Effect of GABAergic Axo-Axonic Cells in Cortical Microcircuits

    János Szabadics;Csaba Varga;Gábor Molnár;Szabolcs Oláh

  • Microglia monitor and protect neuronal function through specialized somatic purinergic junctions

    Csaba Cserép;Balázs Pósfai;Nikolett Lénárt;Rebeka Fekete

  • Polarized and compartment-dependent distribution of HCN1 in pyramidal cell dendrites

    Andrea Lörincz;Takuya Notomi;Gábor Tamás;Ryuichi Shigemoto

  • Regulation of cortical microcircuits by unitary GABA-mediated volume transmission

    Szabolcs Oláh;Miklós Füle;Gergely Komlósi;Csaba Varga

  • Cholinergic activation and tonic excitation induce persistent gamma oscillations in mouse somatosensory cortex in vitro.

    Eberhard H. Buhl;Gabor Tamás;André Fisahn

  • Identified sources and targets of slow inhibition in the neocortex.

    Gábor Tamás;Andrea Lorincz;Andrea Simon;János Szabadics

  • Fast IPSPs elicited via multiple synaptic release sites by different types of GABAergic neurone in the cat visual cortex.

    G Tamás;E H Buhl;P Somogyi

  • Transcriptomic and morphophysiological evidence for a specialized human cortical GABAergic cell type

    Eszter Boldog;Trygve E. Bakken;Rebecca D. Hodge;Mark Novotny

  • Differentially interconnected networks of GABAergic interneurons in the visual cortex of the cat.

    Gábor Tamás;Peter Somogyi;Eberhard H. Buhl

  • Human neocortical expansion involves glutamatergic neuron diversification

    Jim Berg;Staci A. Sorensen;Jonathan T. Ting;Jonathan T. Ting;Jeremy A. Miller

  • Massive autaptic self-innervation of GABAergic neurons in cat visual cortex.

    Gábor Tamás;Eberhard H. Buhl;Peter Somogyi

  • A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

    Rafael Yuste;Michael Hawrylycz;Nadia Aalling;Argel Aguilar-Valles

  • Calcium Microdomains in Aspiny Dendrites

    Jesse H. Goldberg;Gabor Tamas;Dmitriy Aronov;Rafael Yuste

  • Synaptic target selectivity and input of GABAergic basket and bistratified interneurons in the CA1 area of the rat hippocampus.

    Katalin Halasy;Eberhard H. Buhl;Eberhard H. Buhl;Zoltán Lörinczi;Gábor Tamás

  • Complex Events Initiated by Individual Spikes in the Human Cerebral Cortex

    Gábor Molnár;Szabolcs Oláh;Gergely Komlósi;Miklós Füle

  • Lighting the chandelier: new vistas for axo-axonic cells

    Allyson Howard;Gabor Tamas;Ivan Soltesz

  • Synaptic effects of identified interneurons innervating both interneurons and pyramidal cells in the rat hippocampus

    S.R Cobb;K Halasy;K Halasy;I Vida;G Nyı́ri

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Somogyi
Peter Somogyi University of Oxford
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Ed S. Lein
Ed S. Lein University of Washington
Giorgio A. Ascoli
Giorgio A. Ascoli George Mason University
Oscar Marín
Oscar Marín King's College London
Moritz Helmstaedter
Moritz Helmstaedter Max Planck Society
Michael Hawrylycz
Michael Hawrylycz Allen Institute for Brain Science
Huibert D. Mansvelder
Huibert D. Mansvelder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christiaan P. J. de Kock
Christiaan P. J. de Kock Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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