{"id":5786,"date":"2015-07-03T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/anatomia\/?page_id=5786"},"modified":"2020-04-06T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:31:14","slug":"dr-csillag-andras-biographical-sketch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/anatomia\/szemelyes-oldalak-personal-pages\/dr-csillag-andras\/dr-csillag-andras-biographical-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Csillag Andr\u00e1s – Biographical sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last name<\/strong>: Csillag<\/p>\n

First name<\/strong>: Andr\u00e1s<\/p>\n

Gender<\/strong>: Male<\/p>\n

Nationality<\/strong>: Hungarian<\/p>\n

Date and Place of Birth<\/strong>: 20 February, 1949, Debrecen (Hungary)<\/p>\n

Title and Affiliations<\/strong>: Professor in Anatomy, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology<\/a>, Semmelweis University<\/a>, Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\n

Work address: <\/span><\/b><\/span>58 T\u0171zolt\u00f3 utca, H-1094, Budapest, Hungary<\/span><\/p>\n

Phone: +361 215-6598, Fax: +361 215 5158 E-mail: <\/span><\/b><\/span>csillag@ana.sote.hu<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

a. Professional Preparation.<\/p>\n

Medical: Semmelweis University, Budapest. <\/b>Major: General Medicine M.D., 1973<\/span><\/p>\n

Graduate: Semmelweis University, Budapest Neurobiology (Transport processes in isolated nerve endings) Ph.D., 1984<\/span><\/p>\n

Post-doctoral: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Neuroanatomical background of avian avoidance learning D.Sc., 1995<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Appointments.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Chairman of the Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 2004 to present<\/span><\/p>\n

Full Professor at the Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 2001 to present<\/span><\/p>\n

Associate Professor at the Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 1996-2001<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 1988-1996<\/span><\/p>\n

Visiting Research Fellow at Menninger, Topeka, KS, USA, awardee of Fogarty-NIH Central and Eastern Europe Senior International Fellowship in the Neurosciences, total of 10 months stay between 1992-1994<\/span><\/p>\n

Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Biology Department, Brain Research Group, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.for 3 years 1984-1987<\/span><\/p>\n

Visiting Research Officer at the MRC Developmental Neurobiology Unit (London, UK), for 6 months 1977-1978<\/span><\/p>\n

Lecturer at the Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 1975-1988<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Associate at the Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 1973-1975<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Publications.<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/b>a) Books and book chapters<\/span><\/span><\/b>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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1. Csillag A,<\/u> Quantitative autoradiography at the light and electron-microscope levels, In: Quantitative Methods in Neuroanatomy, (Ed. Michael G. Stewart), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, New York, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore, 1992, pp. 3-25.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Csillag A. <\/u>Anatomy of the Living Human: Atlas of Medical Imaging, K\u00f6nemann, Cologne, 1999<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Csillag A. <\/u>Atlas d’imagerie m\u00e9dicale: Anatomie de l’\u00eatre humain, K\u00f6nemann, Cologne, 2000 (in French)<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Csillag A.<\/u> Der menschliche K\u00f6rper: Atlas der bildgebenden Verfahren in der Humanmedizin, K\u00f6nemann, Cologne, 2000 (in German)<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Csillag A.<\/u> Anatomie van de levende mens: Atlas van medische beeldvorming, K\u00f6nemann, Cologne, 2000 (in Dutch)<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Csillag A.<\/u> Atlas de anatom\u00eda humana: T\u00e9cnicas de imagen m\u00e9dicas, K\u00f6nemann, Cologne, 2000 (in Spanish)<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Csillag A<\/u> (2005) Atlas of the Sensory Organs. Functional and Clinical Anatomy. Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

b)<\/b> <\/span>Research communications (10 significant publications within the past 10 years):<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

1. Csillag A., <\/u>Kabai P., Kovach J.K. (1995) Effects of diencephalic lesions on approach responses and color preferences in quail. Physiol. Behav<\/b>. 58, 659-668.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Stewart MG, Kabai P, Harrison E, Steele RJ, Kossut M, Gierdalski M, Csillag A,<\/u> (1996) The involvement of dopamine in the striatum in passive avoidance training in the chick. Neuroscience<\/b>, 70, 7-14.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.<\/u> Csillag A <\/u>, Sz\u00e9kely AD, Stewart MG (1997) Synaptic terminals immunolabelled against glutamate in the lobus parolfactorius of domestic chicks (Gallus domesticus)<\/i> in relation to afferents from the archistriatum. Brain Res.<\/b> 750, 171-179.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Davies DC, Csillag A, <\/u>Sz\u00e9kely AD, P. Kabai (1997) Efferent connections of the domestic chick archistriatum: A Phaseolus lectin anterograde tracing study. J. Comp. Neurol.<\/b> 389, 679-693.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Csillag A<\/u> (1999) Striato-telencephalic and striato-tegmental circuits: relevance to learning in domestic chicks, Behavioural Brain Research<\/b>, Special Issue \u0091Avian Behavioural Neuroscience\u0092 (Eds: A Csillag, AD Sz\u00e9kely, MG Stewart), 98, 227-236.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Montagnese CM, Mezey SE, Csillag A<\/u> (2003) Efferent connections of the dorsomedial thalamic nuclei of the domestic chick (Gallus domesticus)<\/i>, J. Comp. Neurol<\/b>. 459, 301-326.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Reiner A, Perkel DJ, Bruce L, Butler AB, Csillag A<\/u> et al. (2004) Revised nomenclature for avian telencephalon and some related brainstem nuclei, J. Comp. Neurol<\/b>. 473, 377-414.<\/span><\/p>\n

8. B\u00e1lint E, Kitka T, Zachar G, \u00c1d\u00e1m \u00c1, Hemmings HC Jr, Csillag A<\/u> (2004) Abundance and location of DARPP-32 in striato-tegmental circuits of domestic chicks, J. Chem. Neuroanat<\/b>. 28, 27-36.<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Kabai P, Stewart MG, Tarcali J, Csillag A<\/u> (2004) Inhibiting effect of D1, but not D2 antagonist administered to the striatum on retention of passive avoidance in the chick, Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 81, 155-158.<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Erich D. Jarvis, Onur G\u00fcnt\u00fcrk\u00fcn, Laura Bruce, Andr\u00e1s Csillag<\/u>, Harvey Karten, Wayne Kuenzel, Loreta Medina, George Paxinos, David J. Perkel, Toru Shimizu, Georg Striedter, J. Martin Wild, Gregory F. Ball, Jennifer Dugas-Ford, Sarah Durand, Gerald Hough, Scott Husband, Lubica Kubikova, Diane W. Lee, Claudio V. Mello, Alice Powers, Connie Siang, Tom V. Smulders, Kazuhiro Wada, Stephanie A. White, Keiko Yamamoto, Jing Yu, Anton Reiner and Ann B. Butler (2005) Avian brains and a paradigm shift in understanding vertebrate brain evolution, Nature Reviews: Neuroscience<\/b>, in press<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/b> Total number of publications: 160 <\/b>(67 research communications, 4 book chapters and symposia, 6 books, 83 conference abstracts). Cumulative impact factor (from full papers): 165,64; Number of citations: <\/b>over<\/span><\/span>950<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Synergistic Activities.<\/p>\n

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1. Organizer of the international meeting „Avian Brain and Behaviour”, Tihany, Hungary (1996). Guest editor of the follow-up publication: Avian Behavioural Neuroscience, Special Issue of Behavioural Brain Research, Vol. 98. No. 2 (1999)<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Sz\u00e9chenyi Professorial Fellowship (awarded for four years to distinguished scientists\/educators by the Hungarian Ministry of Education) (1998-2001)<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Membership of the following societies: Hungarian Anatomical Society; Society for Neuroscience, USA; British Neuroscience Association<\/p>\n

4. Board membership of the Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund (Life Sciences Section) until 2001<\/p>\n

5. Board membership of the Hungarian Neuroscience Society from<\/span> 2005<\/p>\n

6. Teaching 1st and 2nd year medical student gross human anatomy, histology and embryology courses (since 1989 also in English language), Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary (1973-present)<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Teaching 2nd<\/sup> level biology and graduate students comparative neuroanatomy and functional neuroanatomy courses, Semmelweis University and E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, Budapest, Hungary (1994-present)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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e. Collaborators and Other Affiliations<\/span><\/p>\n

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(i) Collaborators within the last 48 months:<\/span><\/p>\n

Name Current Position\/Title Current University or place<\/span><\/p>\n

Matsushima T. Assoc. Professor University of Nagoya, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n

Stewart M.G. Full Professor The Open University, UK<\/span><\/p>\n

Kabai P. Senior Research Fellow Szent Istv\u00e1n University, Hungary<\/span><\/p>\n

Hemmings HC Jr Senior Research Fellow Cornell Univ. New York, US<\/span><\/p>\n

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(ii) Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors:<\/span><\/p>\n

Graduate Advisor:<\/span><\/p>\n

Haj\u00f3s F, Professor in Anatomy , Szent Istv\u00e1n University, Fac. of Veterinary Sciences, Budapest, Hungary<\/span><\/p>\n

Postdoctoral Advisor:<\/span><\/p>\n

Rose, S.P.R., Ret. Professor, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK<\/span><\/p>\n

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(iii) Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor to the following persons within the last 5 years:<\/span><\/p>\n

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a. Postdoctoral associates and other professionals<\/span><\/p>\n

Name Current Position\/Title Current University or place<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrea D. Sz\u00e9kely PhD Sen. Lecturer in Anatomy Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

Szilvia Mezey PhD Research Fellow Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

Montagnese, Catherine PhD Research Fellow Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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b. Students (research assistants)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

M\u00e1ria Sz\u00e1sz laboratory technician Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c1gota \u00c1d\u00e1m Graduate student Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

Eszter B\u00e1lint Graduate student Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

Gergely Zachar Graduate student and research ass. E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University\/Szent Istv\u00e1n University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

Tam\u00e1s Kitka undergraduate research associate E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrea Thu-lan Szab\u00f3 undergraduate research associate Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c1rp\u00e1d Patai undergraduate research associate Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

J\u00e1nos Hanics undergraduate research associate Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

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