Bertalan Csillik

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Bertalan Csillik (rarely also briefly Bert Csillik ; born November 10, 1927 in Szeged ; † May 10, 2012 ibid) was a Hungarian anatomist and neuroscientist .

Life

Bertalan Csillik began studying medicine in 1948 at the "Albert Szent-Györgyi" Medical University (Hungarian: Szent-Györgyi Albert Orvostudományi Egyetem , SZOTE for short), where he obtained his doctorate in medicine (MD) in 1954 . As early as 1949 he worked as a tutor at the Anatomical Institute, became a research assistant there in 1954 and published his first scientific article on the effect of acetylcholinesterase on the motor end plate in the same year . The motor endplate and the postsynaptic membrane region became his research focus for the next 15 years. At the beginning of the 1970s, he switched his research focus to the rear horn, the rear, narrower part of the gray matter of the spinal cord .

Csillik received his first academic doctorate in 1962 and was then assistant professor of pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia until 1963 . In 1968 Csillik became professor and head of the Anatomical Institute of the Medical University "Albert Szent-Györgyi", succeeding Albert Gellért (1894–1967), and also headed the Central Electron Microscope Laboratory there . In 1977/78 he became visiting professor for neuropathology at Harvard University in Boston . In 1983 he was appointed a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for the Neuroscience Section. As President of the Hungarian Anatomical Society (Hungarian Magyar Anatómus Társaság , MTA for short), he hosted the 1991 annual meeting of the German Anatomical Society in Szeged.

In 1993 Csillik retired after having headed the Anatomical Institute of the University of Szeged for 25 years. He was involved in the construction of the new dissection room and the histological practice room. He then worked again at Harvard University in 1994/95 and at the Bay Zoltán Research Institute from 1995 to 2000, before returning to the Anatomical Institute of Szeged University as professor emeritus until 2010. There he focused his scientific work on the reticular nucleus of the rat.

Bertalan Csillik had been married to the neuroscientist Elizabeth Knyihár since April 30, 1972 .

Works (selection)

  • B. Csillik: Functional Structure of the Post-Synaptic Membrane in the Myoneural Junction . Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1965 (English).
  • E. Knyihár-Csillik, B. Csillik: FRAP: Histochemistry of the Primary Nociceptive Neuron (=  Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry . Volume 14). Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, New York 1981, doi : 10.1016 / S0079-6336 (81) 80008-3 (English).
  • E. Knyihár-Csillik, P. Rakic, B. Csillik: Fine structure of growth cones in the upper dorsal horn of the adult primate spinal cord in the course of reactive synapto-neogenesis . In: Cell and Tissue Research . Volume 239, Issue 3, 1985, pp. 633-641 , doi : 10.1007 / BF00219242 (English).
  • B. Csillik, E. Knyihár-Csillik: The Protean Gate . Structure and Plasticity of the Primary Nociceptive Analyzer. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1986 (English).
  • B. Csillik, S. Kubik, T. Tömböl: Regional Anatomy . Ed .: T. Tömböl. Medicina Publishing House, Budapest 2001 (English).
  • B. Csillik, I. Kubik, T. Tömböl: Tájanatómia . Ed .: T. Tömböl. Medicina, Budapest 2006 (Hungarian).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Institute for Anatomy. History of the institute. In: University of Szeged . Retrieved April 9, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Csillik, Bertalan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Csillik, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian anatomist and neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2012
Place of death Szeged