Ladislav Tauc

Ladislav Tauc (1926–1999) was a French neuroscientist, born in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia.

Ladislav Tauc
Born	28 May 1926  Pardubice
Died	2 June 1999  (aged 73) Orsay
Awards	CNRS silver medal (1967)

He was a pioneer in neuroethology and neuronal physiology, who immigrated to France in 1949 to work at the Institut Marey in Paris. Tauc was the founder and former director of the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He was one of the teachers of Eric R. Kandel. There Eric R. Kandel started to investigate the gill withdrawal reflex and postsynaptic potentials (PSP) in identified neurons in the abdominal ganglion of Aplysia.^[1][2]

"The introduction of a 'simplified' brain (the Aplysia nervous system) to study the cellular and molecular basis of organized neuronal interactions, has been described as one of Tauc’s essential contributions to neuroscience."^[3]

Since the year 2000 an annual meeting is organized in honor of Ladislav Tauc.^[4]

See also

• Eric R. Kandel
• Torsten Wiesel
• Stephen Kuffler

References

1. The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography Volume 4
2. Kandel E. R., Tauc L. (1964). Mechanism of prolonged heterosynaptic facilitation. Nature 202, 145–147. doi: 10.1038/202145a0.
3. Maurice Israel, Obituary, Trends in Neurosciences vol 20, no 2 (2000) p 47.
4. "Neurobiology Conferences - INAF Conferences en Neurobiologie Ladislav Tauc". Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2013-03-03.

External links

• Obituary from the International Society for Neuroethology