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Name: Tamás Farkas

Place and date of birth: Körmend, Hungary, 25. 05. 1971

Status: associate professor

Address for correspondence: Department of Physiolology, Anatomy and Neuroscience,
University of Szeged

Közép fasor 52.,  H-6726, Szeged, Hungary

e-mail address: tfarkas@bio.u-szeged.hu

Marriage: Mrs Andrea Fabulya with one child

Nationality: Hungarian

 

Education, Degrees:

– Ferenc Kölcsey Secondary School, Körmend, 1985-1989

– undergraduate student at the Attila József University, Szeged, 1989-1994, main subjects: Biology and    Chemistry

– PhD student, at the Attila József University, Dept. of Comp. Physiol, Szeged, 1994-1998

– postdoc fellow at the Attila József University, Dept. of Comp. Physiol, Szeged, 04. 1998- 12. 1999

– assistant lecturer at the University of Szeged, Dept. of Comp. Physiol, Szeged, 12. 1999-   10. 2000

– senior lecturer at the University of Szeged, Dept. of Comp. Physiol, Szeged, 10. 2000-06. 2005

– associate professor at the University of Szeged, Dept. of. Physiolology, Anatomy and Neuroscience, Szeged, 06. 2005-

 

Scientific activity:

My research topic is the responses of the mammalian central nervous system to acute and chronic injuries, within this to study the underlying mechanisms of sensory deprivation, denervation, focal and global ischemia and Alzheimer's disease in the cortex and hippocampus. The applied methods are in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological recordings (cortical evoked potential mapping, fEPSP recording, LTP induction, patch clamping) and neuromorphological examinations (spine density analysis).

 

Education activity:

Since 1994 I am leading laboratory practices and lectures (Comparative Physiology, Psychophysiology and Modern methods in neuroscience) to BSc, MSc and PhD students. Since 1998 I am supervisor of undergraduate and PhD students.

 

Fellowships:

– TEMPUS fellowship for 3 months at University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, in 1993

– DAAD and SFB fellowships for 14 months at the Centrum Anatomy, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 1995-1996

– Humbodt fellowship for 6 months at the Centrum Anatomy, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, in 2000. My supervisor was Professor Joachim R. Wolff.

– Békésy György Posdoctoral Fellowship 2001-2004, 36 months

– 1 month scientific research at laboraty of Prof. Tibor Harkány, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004

– Bolyai Posdoctoral Fellowship 2005-2008 and 2009- present

– 2 months scientific research at laboraty of Prof. Tibor Harkány, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006

Grants:

– 2002-2005 The effects of steroids on the neural activity, plasticity and cortical reorganization of the CNS (OTKA  F37407)

– 2005-2008 Testing new pharmacies against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease using in vitro electrophysiology  (DNT OR107)

 

Language knowledge:

English: oral and written (C-type) Intermediate-level Hungarian State Exam (2000)

German: oral and written (C-type) Intermediate-level Hungarian State Exam (1989)

 DSH exam of the Lektorat of University of Göttingen (2000)

 

Memberships

Hungarian Physiological Society, 2000-

Hungarian Society for Neuroscience, 2000-

Hungarian Humboldt Society, 2000-

 

Publications:

Number of publications: 32 (articles) and 13 (international conference proceedings)

Cumulativ impact factor (2009): ) 87,106 article and 12,951 conference proceedings

Total impact factor (2009): 100,057

Number of citatons: 302 (366)

 

Last updated: Szeged, on the 9th of February, 2011

TAMÁS FARKAS, PH.D.