Education and training:
2011-present: Doctoral Fellow, MTA-SZTE ‘Lendület’ Oscillatory Neuronal Network Research Group at University of Szeged, Department of Physiology, Hungary
2011-2013: Medical Translator and Interpreter at University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Hungary
2009-2011: Master’s Degree (graded excellent), the professional qualification of Biologist (Neuro- and Human Biology) at Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Hungary
2006-2009: Bachelor Degree, the professional qualification of Biologist (Cell- and Molecular Biologist) at Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Hungary
Research field:
The main goal of my PhD work is to map those neuronal network connections in the caudate nucleus of the striatum, which may be essential to understand the visual infromation processing aspects of the striatum. In my experiments, I try to recognise how and why do the firing patterns of the striatal neurons change while the animal is running in different enviroments. Answering these questions may help to partially understand how the animal is able to fit its movements to the dinamically changing enviromental conditions.
Publications:
Direct projection from the visual associative cortex to the caudate nucleus in the feline brain. Neurosci.Lett. (2011), Anett J. Nagy, Antal Berényi, Károly Gulya, Masao Norita, György Benedek, Attila Nagy
Large-scale, high-density (up to 512 channels) recording of local circuits in behaving animals. J Neurophysiol. (2013) A. Berényi, Z. Somogyvári, A. J. Nagy, L. Roux, J. Long, S. Fujisawa, E. Stark, A. Leonardo, T. D. Harris and G. Buzsáki
Visiting scholarships:
Buzsáki Lab., CMBN, Rutgers University, Newark, USA (10th July-8th August 2011)
Záborszky Lab. CMBN, Rutgers University, Newark, USA (15th June-30th July 2012) 3-dimensional cell reconstruction with Neurolucida