Peter Somogyi
Born1950 02 17
Szentendre, Hungary
NationalityHungarian, British
OccupationProfessor of Neurobiology
EmployerUniversity of Oxford
Known forResearch on neuronal networks in the brain
Websitehttps://pharm.ox.ac.uk/research/somogyi-group

Peter Somogyi FRS FMedSci is the former Director of the Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit at the University Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, England.

Amongst many scientific honours he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 2000 [1] and awarded the first (together with hungarian co-winners Gyorgy Buzsaki and Tamas Freund) Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation Brain Prize in 2011.[2]

Education edit

First Degree:1975, Biology, first class, (5 year course, including final year research project for a Degree equivalent to an M.Sc.) Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.Graduating Thesis: Electron microscopic cytochemical studies on cholinesterases in the adrenal medulla (in Hungarian).

Second Degree: 1977, Ph.D., (summa cum laude) Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Title of Thesis: The Synthesis and Release of Acetylcholinesterase(in Hungarian).

Higher Degree: 1987, D.Sc., Doctor of Biological Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Professional appointments edit

1975-1976: Junior Research Fellow Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1st Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary. Supervisors: Dr. J. Hámori, Professor J. Szentágothai.

1976-1983: Research Fellow Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1st Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary. On leave from above post as visiting scientist: 1977-1978: Departmental Demonstrator, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr A.D. Smith. 1978-1979: Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, (18 months) Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. 1980-1982: Visiting scientist as above (4 month/year).

1983-1985: Senior Research Fellow, (25 months) Department of Human Physiology, Flinders Medical School, South Australia.

1985- 2015: Associate Director, later Co-Director, then Director of the M.R.C. Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford.

2015 April 1st – 31st Dec, Associate Director, Brain Network Dynamics Unit of the MRC, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University, U.K.

2016 Jan. 1st – to date, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University, U.K.

Invited Faculty Member on Postgraduate Courses edit

1986 Biological Aspects of Neuron Activity, International School of Biophysics Erice, Italy

1987 Molecular Neuroanatomy, ETP/ENA/IBRO Course, Amsterdam, Netherlands Advanced Neuroanatomy, ESF/ETP Course, Budapest, Hungary Cerebral Cortex as a Unified Structure, Soc. for Neurosci. Course, New Orleans, U.S.A.

1994 Ionic Channels in Nerve Cells, Winter School, Alicante, Spain Neuroscience for Clinicians, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK

1996 Postgraduate Course in Neurotransmission , Debrecen Med. Sch., Hungary, Cerebral Cortex, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Postgraduate Course,

2000 IBRO Summer School, Functional Neuroanatomy, Tihany, Hungary

Named and Honorary Lectures edit

1990 Moruzzi Lecture, European Neuroscience Association, Stockholm

1995 Julian Tobias Memorial Lecture, University of Chicago

2001 Jerzy Olszewski Lecture, Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada

2002 János Szentágothai Memorial Lecture, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

2003 Wenner-Gren Distinguished Lecturer, Sweden

2003 Segerfalk Award Lecture, University of Lund, Sweden

2004 Special Plenary Lecture, 16th IFAA Conference, Kyoto, Japan

2005 1st János Szentágothai Memorial Lecture, University of California, Irvine, USA

2006 Quastel Lecure, Otto Loewi Conference, Eilat, Israel

2006 Servier Conference Lecture, Neuroscience Research Centre, University of Montreal

2008 The IBRO Lecture, Univ. Debrecen, Hungary

2008 The 1st Hans Kosterlitz Lecture, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

2009 Keynote Lecure, in: EMBO, Cortical Interneurons in Health and Disease, Mallorca, Spain

2012 The Brain Prize Lecture, FENS Conference, Barcelona, Spain

2012 János Szentágothai Memorial Lecture, Hungarian Medical Assoc. of America, Sarasota, USA

2012 Dezső Miskolczy Memorial Lecture, Univ. of Medicine and Pharmacy, Targu Mures, Romania

2013 Loránd Eötvös Day Lecture, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest

2013 Keynote Lecture, Conference on Inhibitory Control of Brain Plasticity, Krakow, Poland

2015 Opening Plenary Lecture, Multinational Congress of Microscopy, Eger, Hungary

Editorial board member edit

1978-2011 Neuroscience

1987-1989 Journal of Neurocytology

1988- 2005 Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

1988- European Journal of Neuroscience (1996-99 receiving editor)

1989- 2019 Experimental Brain Research

1990- Cerebral Cortex

1992-2005 J. Hirnforschung

1995-2001 J. Neuroscience

2003- Hippocampus

2007- Brain Structure and Function

2008- J. Experimental Neuroscience

2013- Neuroscience Bulletin

Prizes and Awards edit

1976: Scientific Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Junior Scientists. First prize

1977: Scientific Prize of the Hung. Acad. Sci. for Junior Scientists. First Prize

1982: M. Lenhossek Prize of the Association of Hungarian Anatomists and Embryologists

1984: Charles Judson Herrick Award of the Association of American Anatomists

1988: Merck Sharp and Dohme Visiting Professor at the Department of Medicine, Flinders University, South Australia

1990 Honorary Doctorate, Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary

1991 Krieg Cortical Discoverer Award of the Cajal Club, American Anatomical Society,

1995 Yngve Zotterman Prize, Physiological Society, Stockholm, Sweden

1996 Professor of Neurobiology, Oxford University

1998 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Kyoto University

2002 Visiting Professor, National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

2004 Elected Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford

2006 János Arany Medal, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Presidential Committee for Contribution to Hungarian Science from Abroad

2006 István Báthory Award from the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania for working on restoring Hungarian higher education in Romania

2008 Elected Associate, Neuroscience Research Program, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego

2009 The Feldberg Prize and Lectures, Germany, Feldberg Foundation, London, UK

2010 Sanford L. Palay Prize (USA), The Journal of Comparative Neurology and the Cajal Club

2011 The Brain Prize, Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, Copenhagen

2012 The Semmelweis – Budapest Award, Semmelweis Med. University, Budapest, Hungary

2013 Honorary Doctorate, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest

2013 Pro Urbe Prize of the town of Szentendre, Hungary, for contribution to education

2014 Honorary Doctorate, The University of Zurich, Switzerland

2014 Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)

Membership of Learned Societies edit

2000 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London

2004 Elected Corresponding Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

2006 Elected Fellow of The Medical Academy of Sciences, London

2006 Elected Member of The German National (Leopoldina) Academy of Sciences

2009 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea

2013 Elected Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Commissions of Trust edit

1994 to date Trustee of the Hugh Blaschko European Research Trust, The University of Oxford

2005-2016 Founder, Chair, the Oxford Ramon y Cajal Scholarship Award, Central Europe

2012 to date Founder of the Steven Kuffer Research Foundation

Some senior scientists mentored as students or postdocs and their positions edit

Dr. M. Antal, Professor, Head, Dept. Anatomy, Univ. Medical Sch., Debrecen, HungaryDr. A. Baude, Senior Scientist, CNRS, Marseille, France

Dr. E. H. Buhl, (deceased) Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, U.K.

Dr. P. Bolam, Professor (ad hominem) MRC Unit, Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. Oxford, U.K.

Dr. S. Cobb, Reader, Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. Glasgow, UK

Dr. F. Ferraguti, Professor of Pharmacology, Chair, Innsbruck University, Austria

Dr. T. F. Freund, Professor, Director, Inst. of Exp. Med., Hungarian Acad. Sci., Budapest, Hungary

Dr. P. Gabbott, Lecturer, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.

Dr. K. Halasy, Professor, Dept. Anatomy & Histology, Veterinary School, Budapest, Hungary

Dr. Z. F. Kisvarday, Docent, Dept. Anatomy, Univ. Medical Sch., Debrecen, Hungary

Dr. T. Klausberger, Professor, Univ. Vienna, Austria; Senior Scientist, MRC Unit, Oxford, U.K.

Dr. M. Kritzer, Associate Prof. Dept. Neurobiol. Behav., SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.

Dr. P. R. Lowenstein, Cedars Sinai Med Center, Gene Therapuetics Res Inst, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Dr. R. Lujan-Miras, Lecturer, Facultad de Medicina, Univ. Castilla-La Mancha Albacete, Spain

Dr. G. Maccaferri, Assistant Prof., Dept Physiol, Sch. Med., Northwestern Univ. Chicago, USA

Dr. L. Marton, (deceased) Docent, EMTE-Sapientia Univeristy, Targu-Mures, Romania

Dr. G. Nyiri, Inst. of Exp. Med., Hungarian Acad. Sci., Budapest, Hungary

Dr. Z. Nusser, Research Professor, Inst. Exp. Med., Hungarian Acad. Sci., Hungary

Dr. O. Paulsen, Professor of Physiology, Cambridge University, U.K.

Dr E. Pissadaki, IBM Thomas J Watson Research, New York, U.S.A.

Dr. J. V. Priestley, Professor Emeritus, Dept. Physiol., St. Thomas Hosp. Med. Sch., London, U.K.

Dr. R. Shigemoto, Professor, IST, Vienna, Austria

Dr. I. Soltesz, Full Professor, Chairman, Dept. Anat. & Neurobiol., Univ. California Irvine, U.S.A.

Dr. T. Szilagyi, Prof. of Physiology, Medical School, University of Targu Mures, Romania

Dr. S. Totterdell, Retired Senior Res. Fellow, Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. Oxford, U.K.

Dr. G. Tamas, Professor, Dept. Comparative Physiology, Univ. Szeged, Hungary.

Dr. I. Vida, Professor, Dept. Physiology, Berlin, Germany

Most Important Original Research Papers edit

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Bocchio M, Lukacs IP, Stacey R, Plaha P, Apostolopoulos V, Livermore L, Sen A, Ansorge O, Martin J. Gillies MJ, Somogyi P, Capogna M (2019) Group II metabotropic glutamate receptors mediate presynaptic inhibition of excitatory transmission in pyramidal neurons of the human cerebral cortex. Front Cellular Neurosci 12:508. doi:10.3389/fncel.2018.00508

Francavilla R, Villette V, Luo X, Chamberland S, Muñoz-Pino E, Camiré O, Wagner K, Kis V, Somogyi P, Topolnik L. (2018) Connectivity and network state-dependent recruitment of long-range VIP-GABAergic neurons in the mouse hippocampus. Nat Commun 9:5043 10.1038/s41467-018-07162-5

Viney TJ, Salib M, Joshi A, Unal G, Berry N, Somogyi, P (2018) Shared rhythmic subcortical GABAergic input to the entorhinal cortex and presubiculum. eLife 7: e34395.

Harris KD, Bengtsson Gonzales C, Hochgerner H, Skene NG, Magno L, Katona L, Somogyi P, Kessaris N, Linnarsson S, Hjerling‐Leffler J (2018) Classes and continua of hippocampal CA1 inhibitory neurons revealed by single‐cell transcriptomics. PLOS,16: e2006387 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006387

Unal G, Crump MG, Viney TJ, Éltes T, Katona L, Klausberger T, Somogyi P (2018) Spatio-temporal Specialization of GABAergic Septo-hippocampal Neurons for Rhythmic Network Activity. Brain Struct. Funct. 223:2409-2432 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00429-018-1626-0.pdf

Joshi A, Salib M, Viney TJ, Dupet D, Somogyi P (2017) Behavior-dependent activity and synaptic organization of septo-hippocampal GABAergic neurons selectively targeting the hippocampal CA3 area. Neuron 96:1342-1357.

Katona L, Micklem, B, Borhegyi Z, Swiejkowski DA, Valenti O, Viney TJ, Kotzadimitriou D, Klausberger T and Somogyi P (2017) Behaviour-dependent activity patterns of GABAergic long-range projecting neurons in the rat hippocampus. Hippocampus, 27, 359-377.

Lau PY-P, Katona L, Saghy P, Newton K, Somogyi P, Lamsa KP (2017) Long-term plasticity in identified hippocampal GABAergic interneurons in the CA1 area in vivo. Brain Structure & Function. 222:1809-1827.

Unal G, Joshi A, Viney TJ, Kis V, Somogyi P (2015) Synaptic targets of medial septal projections in the hippocampus and extrahippocampal cortices of the mouse. J. Neurosci. 35:15812-15826.

Varga C, Tamas G, Barzo P, Olah S, Somogyi P (2015) Molecular and electrophysiological characterisation of GABAergic interneurons expressing the transcription factor COUP-TFII in the adult human temporal cortex. Cerebral Cortex 25:4430-4449. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhv045; http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/bhv045?ijkey=8zLJLPNA1ICplPw&keytype=ref

Katona L, Lapray D, Viney TJ, Oulhaj A, Borhegyi Z, Micklem BR, Klausberger T Somogyi P (2014) Sleep and movement differentiates actions of two types of somatostatin-expressing GABAergic interneuron in rat hippocampus. Neuron 82:872-886.

Viney TJ, Lasztoczi B, Katona L, Crump MJ, Tukker JJ, Klausberger T, Somogyi P (2013) Network state-dependent inhibition of identified hippocampal CA3 axo-axonic cells in vivo. Nat. Neurosci. 16:1802-1811.

Tukker, J.J., Lasztóczi, B., Katona, L., Roberts, J.D.B., Pissadaki, E.K., Dalezios, Y., Márton, L., Zhang, L., Klausberger, T., Somogyi, P (2013) Distinct dendritic arborisation and in vivo firing patterns of parvalbumin-expressing basket cells in the hippocampal area CA3. J. Neurosci. 33:6809-6825.

Massi, L., Lagler, M., Hartwich, K., Borhegyi, Z., Somogyi, P., Klausberger, T (2012) Temporal dynamics of parvalbumin-expressing axo-axonic and basket cells in the rat medial prefrontal cortex in vivo. J. Neurosci. 32:16496-16502.

Lapray, D., Lasztoczi, B., Lagler, M., Viney, T.J., Katona, L., Valenti, O., Hartwich, K., Borhegyi, Z., Somogyi, P., Klausberger, T. (2012) Behavior-dependent specialization of identified hippocampal interneurons. Nat. Neurosci. 15:1265-1271.

Somogyi, J., Szabo, A., Somogyi, P., Lamsa, K (2012) Molecular analysis of ivy cells of the hippocampal CA1 stratum radiatum using spectral identification of immunofluorophores. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 6: Article 35, 1-6.

Szabo A, Somogyi J, Cauli B., Lambolez, B, Somogyi P, Lamsa, KP (2012) Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors provide a common mechanism for LTP in glutamatergic synapses of distinct hippocampal interneuron types. J. Neurosci. 32:6511-6516.

Takács VT, Klausberger T, Somogyi P, Freund TF, Gulyás AI (2012) Extrinsic and local glutamatergic inputs of the rat hippocampal CA1 area differentially innervate pyramidal cells and interneurons. Hippocampus 22:1379-1391.

Lasztóczi, B., Tukker, J.J, Somogyi P., Klausberger, T. (2011) Terminal field and firing selectivity of cholecystokinin-expressing interneurons in the hippocampal CA3 area. J. Neurosci. 31:18073-18093.

Kasugai Y., Swinny, J.D., Roberts, J.D.B., Dalezios, Y., Fukazawa, Y., Sieghart, W., Shigemoto, R., Somogyi, P. (2010) Quantitative localisation of synaptic and extrasynaptic GABAA receptor subunits on hippocampal pyramidal cells by freeze-fracture replica immunolabelling. Eur. J. Neurosci. 32:1868-1888.

Nissen, W. Szabo, A, Somogyi, J., Somogyi, P., Lamsa, K.P. (2010) Cell type-specific long-term plasticity at glutamatergic synapses onto hippocampal interneurons expressing either parvalbumin or CB1 cannabinoid receptor. J. Neurosci. 30:1337-1347.

Fuentealba, P., Klausberger, T., Karayannis, T., Suen, W.Y., Huck, J., Tomioka, R., Rockland, K., Capogna, M., Studer, M., Morales, M., Somogyi, P. (2010) Expression of COUP-TFII nuclear receptor in restricted GABAergic neuronal populations in the adult rat hippocampus. J. Neurosci. 30:1595-1609.

Glickfeld, L.L., Roberts, J.D., Somogyi, P., Scanziani, M. (2009) Interneurons hyperpolarize pyramidal cells along their entire somatodendritic axis. Nat. Neurosci. 12:21-23.

Oren, I., Nissen, W., Kullmann, D.M., Somogyi, P., Lamsa, K.P. (2009) Role of ionotropic glutamate receptors in LTP in rat hippocampal CA1 oriens-lacunosum moleculare interneurons. J. Neurosci. 29:939-950.

Fuentealba, P., Tomioka, R., Dalezios, Y., Marton, L.F., Studer, M, Rockland, K., Thomas Klausberger T., Somogyi, P. (2008) Rhythmically active enkephalin-expressing GABAergic cells in the CA1 area of the hippocampus project to the subiculum and preferentially innervate interneurons J. Neurosci. 28:10017-10022.

Fuentealba, P., Begum, R., Capogna, M., Jinno, S., Marton, L.F., Csicsvari, J., Thomson, A. Somogyi, P. & Klausberger, T. (2008) Ivy cells: a population of nitric oxide-producing, slow-spiking GABAergic neurons and their involvement in hippocampal network activity. Neuron 57:917-929.

Jinno, S., Klausberger, T.,. Marton L.F, Dalezios, Y., Roberts, J.D.B., Fuentealba P., Bushong E. A., Henze, D., Buzsáki, G., Somogyi, P. (2007) Neuronal diversity in GABAergic long-range projections from the hippocampus. J. Neurosci. 27: 8790-8804.

Tukker, J., Fuentealba, P., Hartwich, K., Somogyi, P., Klausberger, T. (2007) Cell type-specific tuning of hippocampal interneuron firing during gamma oscillations in vivo. J. Neurosci. 27:8184-8189.

Baude, A., Bleasdale C., Dalezios Y., Somogyi, P. & Klausberger, T. (2007) Immunoreactivity for the GABAA receptor α1 subunit, somatostatin and connexin36 distinguishes axo-axonic, basket and bistratified interneurons of the rat hippocampus. Cerebral Cortex, 17: 2094-2107.

Wulff, P., Goetz, T., Leppä, E., Linden, A-M., Renzi, M., Swinny, J.D., Vekovischeva, O.Y., Sieghart, W., Somogyi, P., Korpi, E.R., Farrant, M. & Wisden, W. (2007) From synapse to behaviour: rapid modulation of defined neuronal types with engineered GABAA receptors. Nat. Neurosci. 10:923-929.

Lamsa, K. P., Heeroma, J. H., Somogyi, P., Rusakov D. A. & Kullmann D. M. (2007) Anti-Hebbian long-term potentiation in the hippocampal feedback inhibitory circuit. Science, 315:1262-1266.

Klausberger, T., Marton, L.F., O’Neill J., Huck, J.H.J., Dalezios Y., Fuentealba P., Suen W.Y., Papp, E., Kaneko, T., Watanabe, M., Csicsvari, J. & Somogyi, P. (2005) Complementary roles of cholecystokinin and parvalbumin expressing GABAergic neurons in hippocampal network oscillations. J. Neurosci. 25:9782-9793.

Ferraguti, F., Klausberger, T., Cobden, P., Baude, A., Roberts, J.D.B., Szucs, P., Kinoshita, A., Shigemoto, R., Somogyi, P. & Dalezios, Y. (2005) Metabotropic glutamate receptor 8 (mGluR8) expressing nerve terminals target subsets of GABAergic neurons in the hippocampus. J. Neurosci. 25:10520-10536.

Cope, D.W., Halbsguth, C., Karayannis, T., Wulff, P., Ferraguti, F., Hoeger, H., Leppä, E., Linden, A.-M., Oberto, A., Ogris, W., Korpi, E.R., Sieghart, W., Somogyi, P., Wisden, W. & Capogna, M. (2005) Loss of zolpidem efficacy in the hippocampus of mice with the GABAA receptor gamma2 F771 point mutation. Eur. J. Neurosci. 21:3002-3016.

Lin, S., Huck, J.H.J., Roberts, J.D.B., Macklin, W.B., Somogyi P. & Bergles D.E. (2005) Climbing fiber Innervation of NG2 expressing glia in the mammalian cerebellum. Neuron 46:773-785.

Tamás, G., Szabadics, J., Lörincz, A. & Somogyi, P. (2004) Input and frequency specific entrainment of postsynaptic firing by IPSPs of perisomatic or dendritic origin. Eur. J. Neurosci. 20:2681-2690.

Cope, D.W., Wulff, P., Oberto, A., Aller M.I., Capogna, M., Ferraguti, F., Halbsguth, C., Hoeger, H., Jolin, H.E., Jones, A., McKenzie, A.N.J., Ogris, W., Poeltl, A., Sinkkonen, S.T., Vekovischeva, O. Y., Korpi, E.R., Sieghart, W., Sigel, E., Somogyi, P. & Wisden, W. (2004) Abolition of zolpidem sensitivity in mice with a point mutation in the GABAA receptor gamma2 subunit. Neuropharmacology. 47:17-34.

Kogo, N., Dalezios, Y., Capogna, M. Ferraguti, F., Shigemoto, R. & Somogyi, P. (2004) Depression of GABAergic input to identified hippocampal neurons by group III metabotropic glutamate receptors in the rat. Eur. J. Neurosci. 19:2727-2740.

Ferraguti, F., Cobden, P., Pollard, M., Cope, D., Shigemoto, R. & Somogyi, P. (2004) Immunolocalization of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 alpha (mGluR1 alpha) in distinct classes of interneuron in the CA1region of the rat hippocampus. Hippocampus. 14:193-215.

Ganter P, Szücs P, Paulsen O, Somogyi P (2004) Properties of horizontal axo-axonic cells in stratum oriens of the hippocampal CA1 area of rats in vitro. Hippocampus, 14:232-243.

Somogyi, J., Baude, A., Omori, Y., Shimizu, H., El Mestikawy, S., Fukaya, M., Shigemoto, R., Watanabe, M. & Somogyi, P. (2004) GABAergic basket cells expressing cholecystokinin contain vesicular glutamate transporter type 3 (VGLUT3) in their synaptic terminals in hippocampus and isocortex of the rat. Eur. J. Neurosci., 19:552-569.

Klausberger, T., Marton, L.F., Baude, A., Roberts, J.D.B., Magill, P.J. & Somogyi, P. (2004) Spike timing of dendrite-targeting bistratified cells during hippocampal network oscillations in vivo. Nat. Neurosci. 7:41-47.

Klausberger T, Magill PJ, Márton LF, Roberts JDB, Cobden PM, Buzsáki G, Somogyi P (2003) Brain state- and cell type-specific firing of hippocampal interneurons in vivo. Nature, 421:844-848.

Nyiri G, Stephenson FA, Freund TF, Somogyi P (2003) Large variability in synaptic NMDA receptor density on interneurons and a comparison with pyramidal cell spines in the rat hippocampus. Neuroscience, 119:347-363.

Somogyi P, Dalezios Y, Luján R, Roberts JDB, Watanabe M, Shigemoto R (2003) High level of mGluR7 in the presynaptic active zones of select populations of GABAergic terminals innervating interneurones in the rat hippocampus. Eu J Neurosci, 17:2503-2520.

Losonczy A, Somogyi P, Nusser Z (2003) Reduction of excitatory postsynaptic responses by persistently active metabotropic glutamate receptors in the hippocampus. J Neurophysiol, 89:1910-1919.

Wisden W, Cope D, Klausberger T, Hauer B, Sinkkonen ST, Tretter V, Lujan R, Jones A, Korpi ER, Mody I, Sieghart W, Somogyi P (2002) Ectopic expression of the GABAA receptor 6 subunit in hippocampal pyramidal neurons produces extrasynaptic receptors and an increased tonic inhibition. Neuropharmacology, 43:530-549.

Dalezios Y, Lujan R, Shigemoto R, Roberts JDB, Somogyi P (2002) Enrichment of mGluR7a in the presynaptic active zones of GABAergic and non-GABAergic terminals on interneurons in the rat somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 12:961-974.

Losonczy A, Zhang L, Shigemoto R, Somogyi P, Nusser Z (2002) Cell type dependence and variability in the short-term plasticity of EPSCs in identified mouse hippocampal interneurones. J Physiol, 542:193-210.

Tamas G, Szabadics J, Somogyi P (2002) Cell type- and subcellular position-dependent summation of unitary postsynaptic potentials in neocortical neurons. J Neurosci 22:740-747.

Klausberger T, Roberts JDB & Somogyi P (2002) Cell type and input specific differences in the number and subtypes of synaptic GABAA receptors in the hippocampus. J Neurosci 22:2513-2521.

Corti C, Aldegheri L, Somogyi P, Ferraguti F (2002) Distribution and synaptic localisation of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 4 (mGluR4) in the rodent central nervous system. Neuroscience 110:403-420.

Cope DW, Maccaferri G, Marton, LF, Roberts JDB, Cobden P, Somogyi P (2002) Cholecystokinin-immunopositive basket and Schaffer collateral-associated interneurons target different domains of pyramidal cells in the CA1 area of the rat hippocampus. Neuroscience, 109:63-80.

Tretter V, Hauer B, Nusser Z, Mihalek RM, Hoger H, Homanics GE, Somogyi P, Sieghart W (2001) Targeted disruption of the GABA(A) receptor gamma2 subunit gene leads to an upregulation of gamma2 subunit-containing receptors in cerebellar granule cells. J Biol Chem 276:10532-10538.

Nyiri G, Freund TF, Somogyi P (2001) Input-dependent synaptic targeting of alpha2-subunit-containing GABAA receptors in hippocampal pyramidal cells of the rat. Eur J Neurosci 13:428-442.

Tamas G, Buhl EH, Lorincz A, Somogyi P (2000) Proximally targeted GABAergic synapses and gap junctions precisely synchronize cortical interneurons. Nat Neurosci 3:366-371.

Racca C, Stephenson FA, Streit P, Roberts JDB, Somogyi P (2000) NMDA receptor content of synapses in stratum radiatum of the hippocampal CA1 area. J. Neurosci. 20:2512-2522.

Maccaferri G, Roberts JDB, Szucs P, Cottingham CA, Somogyi P (2000) Cell surface domain specific postsynaptic currents evoked by identified GABAergic neurones in rat hippocampus in vitro. J Physiol 524:91-116.

Bergles DW, Roberts JDB, Somogyi P, Jahr CE (2000) Glutamatergic synapses on oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the hippocampus. Nature 405:187-191.

Nusser Z, Ahmad A, Tretter V, Fuchs K, Wisden W, Sieghart W, Somogyi P (1999) Alterations in the expression of GABAA receptor subunits in cerebellar granule cells after the disruption of the alpha6 subunit gene. Eur J Neurosci 11:1685-1697.

Vida I, Halasy K, Szinyei C, Somogyi P, Buhl EH (1998) Unitary IPSPs evoked by interneurons at the stratum radiatum-stratum lacunosum-moleculare border in the CA1 area of the rat hippocampus in vitro. J Physiol (Lond) 506:755-773.

Tamas G, Somogyi P, Buhl EH (1998) Differentially interconnected networks of GABAergic interneurons in the visual cortex of the cat. J Neurosci 18:4255-4270.


Reviews and Book Chapters edit

Somogyi P, Klausberger T (2018) Hippocampus: Intrinsic Organization, In: Shepherd, G., & Grillner, S. (Eds.), Handbook of Brain Microcircuits. Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp 199-216.

*Barth A L, Burkhalter A, Callaway E M, Connors B W, Cauli B, DeFelipe J, Feldmeyer D, Freund T, Kawaguchi, Y Kisvarday Z, Kubota Y, McBain C, Oberlaender M, Rossier J, Rudy B, Staiger J F, Somogyi P, Tamas G and Yuste R. (2016) Comment on “Principles of connectivity among morphologically defined cell types in adult neocortex” Science, 353, 1108. PMID: 27609882


*Somogyi P, (2010) Hippocampus: Intrinsic Organisation. In: Shepherd G, Grillner S (eds) Handbook of Brain Microcircuits. Oxford University Press, pp.148-664.

*Klausberger, T. & Somogyi, P. (2008) Neuronal diversity and temporal dynamics: the unity of hippocampal circuit operations. Science. 321:53-57.

Ascoli GA, Alonso-Nanclares L, Anderson SA, Barrionuevo G, Benavides-Piccone R, Burkhalter A, Buzsaki G, Cauli B, DeFelipe J, Fairén A, Feldmeyer D, Fishell G, Fregnac Y, Freund TF, Gardner D, Gardner EP, Goldberg JH, Helmstaedter M, Hestrin S, Karube F, Kisvarday ZF, Lambolez B, Lewis DA, Marin O, Markram H, Muñoz A, Packer A, Petersen CCH, Rockland KS, Rossier J, Rudy B, Somogyi P, Staiger JF, Tamas G, Thomson AM, Toledo-Rodriguez M, Wang Y, West DC, Yuste R (2008) Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex. Nat Rev Neurosci 9:557-566.

*Agid Y, Buzsáki G, Diamond DM, Frackowiak R, Giedd J, Girault J-A, Grace A, Lambert J, Manji H, Mayberg H, Popoli M, Prochiantz A, Richter-Levin G, Somogyi P, Spedding M, Svenningsson P, Weinberger D (2007) How can drug discovery for psychiatric disorders be improved? Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 6:189-201.

*Somogyi P & Klausberger T (2005) Defined types of cortical interneuron structure space and spike timing in the hippocampus. J. Physiol. 562:9-26.

*Somogyi P, Tamas G, Lujan R, Buhl EH (1998) Salient features of synaptic organisation in the cerebral cortex. Brain Res Rev 26:113-135.

Somogyi P, Nusser Z, Roberts JDB, Lujan R (1998) Precision and variability in the placement of pre- and postsynaptic receptors in relation to neurotransmitter release sites. In: Faber DS, Korn H, Redman SJ, Thompson SM, Altman JS (eds) Central Synapses: Quantal Mechanisms and Plasticity. Human Frontier Science Program Workshop IV. pp.82-93.

Paulsen O, Buhl EH, Heggelund P, Somogyi P, Stricker C, Tamas G (1998) The importance of independent estimates of quantal parameters. In: Faber DS, Korn H, Redman SJ, Thompson SM, Altman JS (eds) Central Synapses: Quantal Mechanisms and Plasticity. Human Frontier Science Program Workshop IV. pp. 47-55.

*Nusser Z, Somogyi P (1997) Compartmentalised distribution of GABAA and glutamate receptors in relation to transmitter release sites on the surface of cerebellar neurones. In: de Zeeuw CI, Strata P, Voogd (eds) Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 114, The Cerebellum: From Structure to Control. Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, pp 109-127.

Somogyi P (1994) The order in synaptic circuits of the cerebral cortex: Lessons from the hippocampus. In: Albowitz B, Albus K, Kuhnt U, Nothdurft H-Ch, Wahle P (eds) Structural and Functional Organization of the Neocortex. Proceedings of a Symposium in Memory of Otto D Creutzfeldt. Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp 148-161.

Somogyi P (1993) The GABAergic synapse in neuronal circuits of the brain. Neuroscience Facts 4:5-6.

Somogyi P (1992) Guide to the Anatomy of the Brain: Neuron. In: Squire LR (ed) Encyclopedia of Learning and Memory. Macmillan Publ Comp, New York, pp 219-225.

Somogyi P (1991) Molecular neuroanatomy of synapses, cells and systems in the brain. In: Calas A, Eugene D (eds) Neurocytochemical Methods, NATO ASI Series. Series H: Cell Biology. Springer-Verlag, pp 117-135.

Chalmers J, Badoer E, Morilak D, Drolet G, Minson JB, Llewellyn-Smith IJ, Somogyi P, Kapoor V, Pilowsky P (1991) Afferent inputs to ventrolateral medulla. In: Kunos G, Ciriello J (eds) Central Neural Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Regulation. Birkhauser, pp 3-13. Antal M, Buzsaki G, Czeh G, Gaal G, Gulyas B, Horvath Z, Jakab R, Kabai P, Kiss J, Kocsis B, Komoly S, Kovach J, Lendvay J, Leranth C,

Mezey E, Molnar Z, Seregi A, Soltesz I, Somogyi P, Toth T, Urban L, Vadasz C (1991) The path forward in Hungarian neuroscience. Trends Neurosci 14:185-187.

*Somogyi P (1990) Synaptic connections of neurones identified by Golgi impregnation: Characterization by immunocytochemical, enzyme histochemical, and degeneration methods. J Electron Micro Tech 15:332-351.

Somogyi P, Freund TF (1989) Immunocytochemistry and synaptic relationships of physiologically characterized, HRP-filled neurons. In:

Heimer L, Zaborszky L (eds) Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing Methods II: Recent Progress. Plenum Publishing Corporation, pp 239-264. *Somogyi P (1989) Synaptic organisation of GABAergic neurons and GABAA receptors in the lateral geniculate nucleus and visual cortex. In: Lam DK-T, Gilbert CD (eds) Neural Mechanisms of Visual Perception. Proc Retina Res Found Symp. Portfolio Publ, pp 35-62. Freund TF, Somogyi P (1989) Synaptic relationships of Golgi impregnated neurons as identified by electrophysiological or immunocytochemical techniques. In: Heimer L, Zaborszky L (eds) Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing Methods. II: Recent Progress. Plenum Publishing Corporation, pp 201-238.

Gilbert CD, Bourgeois J-P, Eckhorn R, Goldman-Rakic PS, Jones EG, Kruger J, Luhmann HJ, Lund JS, Orban GA, Prince DA, Sillito AM, Somogyi P, Toyama K, van Essen DC (1988) Group Report: Neuronal and synaptic organization in the cortex. In: Rakic P, Singer W (eds.) Neurobiology of Neocortex. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, pp 219-240.

*Somogyi P (1988) Immunocytochemical demonstration of GABA in physiologically characterized, HRP-filled neurons and their postsynaptic targets. In: van Leeuwen FW, Buijs RM, Pool CW, Pach O (eds) Molecular Neuroanatomy. Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences. Elsevier, pp 339-359.

Somogyi P (1987) Synaptic organization and transmitters of intracortical circuits. In: Soc. Neurosci Short Course, Cortical Mechanisms. New Orleans, pp 37-53.

Freund TF, Somogyi P (1987) Immunocytochemical and histochemical characterization of neurons identified by Golgi impregnation. Molecular Neuroanatomy Course Meeting. Netherlands Institute for Brain Research,

*Somogyi P, Martin KAC (1985) Cortical circuitry underlying inhibitory processes in cat area 17. In: Rose D, Dobson VG (eds) Models of the Visual Cortex. John Wiley & Sons, pp 514-523.

*Martin KAC, Somogyi P (1985) Local excitatory circuits in area 17 of the cat. In: Rose D, Dobson VG (eds) Models of the Visual Cortex. John Wiley & Sons, pp 504-513.

*Somogyi P, Cowey A (1984) Double bouquet cells. In: Peters A, Jones EG (eds) Cerebral Cortex. Cellular components of the Cerebral Cortex. Plenum Press, pp 337-360.

Smith AD, Bolam JP, Somogyi P (1981) An approach to the identification of neurotransmitters in characterized synapses of complex neuronal networks: application to the basal ganglia of the rat. In: Stjarne L, Hedquist P, Lagercrantz J (eds) Chemical Neurotransmission. 75 Years. Academic Press, pp 463-480.

Cuello AC, Del Fiacco M, Paxinos G, Somogyi P, Priestley JV (1981) Neuropeptides in striato-nigral pathways. J Neurol Trans 51:83-96.

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Scial and political views and activity edit

Peter Somogyi is committed to promoting gender equality, intellectual freedom, as well as the well-being of early career researchers [3]

References edit

  1. ^ "Peter Somogyi". Royal Society. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Biography, Peter Somogyi". The Brain Prize. European Brain Research Foundation. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Founder, Peter Somogyi". Stephen W. Kuffler Research Foundation. Retrieved 10 October 2019.



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