Biography

Dr. Hájos earned his Ph.D. from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary, and his Doctor of Sciences (D.Sc.) from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. He joined the Indiana University faculty in 2021 as a professor of the Psychological and Brain Sciences and a Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience. 

Before joining the Indiana University Bloomington faculty, Hájos served as the head of the laboratory of Network Neurophysiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Budapest, Hungary from 2009 to 2021. He also formerly held teaching positions at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Neuroscience is Hájos’s primary area of study, and his research spans topics related to cellular neuroscience, system neuroscience, and neuroanatomy. Throughout his professional career, Hájos has received several awards from numerous countries. He earned a Welcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship (UK), the Cortical Explorer Price (USA), a NATO Science Fellowship, a Bolyai scholarship (Hungary), and many more. Hajos has also authored several well-cited scientific publications that have appeared in notable publications, including J Neuroscience, eLife, PLOS Biology, and more.

Publications

  • Hájos N. (2021) Interneuron Types and Their Circuits in the Basolateral Amygdala. Front Neural Circuits. 15:687257. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2021.687257.

  • Vereczki VK, Müller K, Krizsán É, Máté Z, Fekete Z, Rovira-Esteban L, Veres JM, Erdélyi F, Hájos N. (2021) Total Number and Ratio of GABAergic Neuron Types in the Mouse Lateral and Basal Amygdala. J Neurosci. 41:4575-4595. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2700-20.2021.

  • Rovira-Esteban L, Gunduz-Cinar O, Bukalo O, Limoges A, Brockway E, Müller K, Fenno L, Kim YS, Ramakrishnan C, Andrási T, Deisseroth K, Holmes A, Hájos N. (2019) Excitation of Diverse Classes of Cholecystokinin Interneurons in the Basal Amygdala Facilitates Fear Extinction. eNeuro. 6:ENEURO.0220-19.2019. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0220-19.2019. 

  • Rhomberg T, Rovira-Esteban L, Vikór A, Paradiso E, Kremser C, Nagy-Pál P, Papp OI, Tasan R, Erdélyi F, Szabó G, Ferraguti F, Hájos N. (2018) VIP-immunoreactive interneurons within circuits of the mouse basolateral amygdala. J Neurosci 38:6983-7003. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2063-17.2018

  • Andrási T, Veres J, Rovira-Esteban L, Kozma R, Vikór A, Gregori E, Hájos N. (2017) Differential Excitatory Control of Two Parallel Basket Cell Networks in Amygdala Microcircuits. PLOS Biology e2001421. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001421.

  • Veres JM, Andrasi T, Nagy-Pal P, Hajos N. CaMKIIα Promoter-Controlled Circuit Manipulations Target Both Pyramidal Cells and Inhibitory Interneurons in Cortical Networks. eNeuro. 10(4):ENEURO.0070-23.2023. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0070-23.(2023) PMCID: PMC10088982
  • Nagy-Pál P, Veres JM, Fekete Z, Karlócai MR, Weisz F, Barabás B, Reéb Z, Hajos N.  Structural organisation of perisomatic inhibition in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci. JN-RM-0432-23. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0432-23.2023. PMID: 37640552
  • Veres JM, Fekete Z, Andrasi T, Rovira-Esteban, L Papp OI, Barabas, B, Hajos N. Fear learning and aversive stimuli differentially change excitatory synaptic transmission in perisomatic inhibitory cells of the basal amygdala. Frontiers Cell Neurosci 17:1120338. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2023.1120338. (2023) PMCID: PMC105007864
  • Gulyás AI, Szabó GG, Ulbert I, Holderith N, Monyer H, Erdélyi F, Szabó G, Freund TF, Hájos N. (2010) Parvalbumin-containing fast-spiking basket cells generate the field potential oscillations induced by cholinergic receptor activation in the hippocampus. J Neurosci. 30:15134-45. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4104-10.2010.

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