Zoltan Molnar

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Summary

Zoltán Molnár is Professor of Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He is known for key contributions to our understanding of how the birth of cortical neurons is regulated, how they migrate, differentiate, generate axons and assemble into circuits, and how those circuits change over time, partly as a result of activity passing through them.

Molnár earned his M.D. at the Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, Szeged, Hungary and D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, UK. He also investigated thalamocortical development working at the Institut de Biologie Cellulaire et de Morphologie, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, and learned optical recording techniques to understand early functional thalamocortical interactions at Kyoto Prefectural School of Medicine, Japan.

He was appointed to a University Lecturer position at the Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics at Oxford associated with an Official Fellowship and Tutorship at St John's College from 2000. He was awarded the title Professor of Developmental Neuroscience in 2007. Molnar has been Elected Member of Academia Europaea (Physiology and Neuroscience); European Neonatal Brain Club; Fellow of the Anatomical Society, Awarded New Fellow of the Year Award for 2018.

Anatomy & Physiology Developmental Biology Neurology Neuroscience

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Oxford

Work details

Professor of Developmenta Neuroscience

University of Oxford

January 2000

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

My research focus is on the cerebral cortical development. It seeks to decipher how cerebral cortical neural cell fates are determined (with special attention in the earliest generated cells in the subplate and in the large pyramidal cells of layer 5), and how development of cortical functional specialisation (arealization) is determined by genetic and environmental factors. The arealization of the mammalian cortex is controlled by a combination of intrinsic factors that are expressed within or near the cortex, and external signals, some of which are mediated through thalamic input. Members of my research group study the generation of cortical neurons and development of the cortical connectivity in this context.

Tutor and Official Fellow in Human Anatomy

St John's College, Oxford

January 2000

I work in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics where I am the Professor of Developmental Neuroscience. My departmental teaching contributes to the pre-clinical training of medical students. I give lectures and seminars in the 1st BM course mainly in the field of Neurosciences; on the anatomy and development of the human central nervous system. I organize the Neuroanatomy practical classes for 2nd year medical students and contribute with more specialized lectures and seminars for the FHS (3rd year medical students) and M.Sc. Degree in Neuroscience Course. I also teach on the Principles of Clinical Anatomy Course for 3rd year medics. My college tutorial teaching includes most aspects of the human gross anatomy, histology, endocrinology and embryology.

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PeerJ Contributions

Preprints 1

March 7, 2018 - Version: 1

The neuronal migration hypothesis of dyslexia: a critical evaluation thirty years on

Luiz G Guidi, Antonio Velayos-Baeza, Isabel Martinez-Garay, Anthony P Monaco, Silvia Paracchini, Dorothy V M Bishop, Zoltan Molnar

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26637v1