Dr CALIN TATU
CURRICULUM VITAE
SURNAME : Tatu FIRST NAME(S): Calin A.
Affiliation and official address: UMF Timisoara
Pta. E Murgu No.2
RO-1900 Timisoara
Romania
Correspondence address: Str. Oglinzilor 5
Sc. A Ap.1
RO-1900/300708 Timisoara
ROMANIA
dns@mail.dnttm.ro
+40-722-607490
FAX: +40-256-487087
Date and place of birth: 11/29/70, Arad, Romania Nationality: Romanian
Education (degrees, dates, universities)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE YEAR FIELD OF STUDY
Miron Constantinescu College, Arad, Romania........Baccalaureate....1990.......Biological
Chemistry
Univ of Medicine/Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania.......MD................1996.......General
Medicine
Career/Employment (employers, positions and dates)
2001 March –present – Lecturer, Department of Immunology, University
of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara
2000 October –December –Research Associate, US Geological Survey,
Reston, VA, USA
1999 February-2001 February –Assistant Researcher, Institute of Hygiene
and Public Health, Timisoara., Romania
January 1997-January 1999 -Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. Of Microbiology
and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
1996-1997 - Research Assistant, Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Timisoara,
Romania
Professional experience
-flow cytometry, molecular biology, cell culture
-organic geochemistry, GC/MS
Specialization
(i) main field Immunology; Clinical Laboratory
(ii) other fields Human medicine
(iii) current research interest: The etiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy; geomedicine (medical geology), organic geochemistry
Honours, Awards, Fellowships, Membership of Professional Societies
Two first prizes –National Contest of Biology –1989, Romania
Becton Dickinson fellowship for training in flow-cytometry –12/1993, Heidelberg,
Germany
Member of the Romanian Society of Immunology
Member of the International Working Group of Medical Geology
Recent selected publications
Calin A. Tatu –Publications list
Orem, W.H., Tatu, C.A., Feder, G.L., Finkelman, R.B., Lerch, H.E., Maharaj, S., Szilagyi, D., Dumitrascu, V., Paunescu, V. and Margineanu, F.: 2002, Environment, geochemistry, and the etiology of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy: lessons from Romania. Facta Universitatis, Medicine and Biology 9, 39-46.
Feder, G.L., Tatu, C.A., Orem, W.H., Paunescu, V., Dumitrascu, V., Szilagyi, D., Finkelman, R.B., Margineanu, F. and Schneider, F.: 2002, Weathered coal deposits and Balkan Endemic Nephropathy. Facta Universitatis, Medicine and Biology 9,34-38.
Orem, W.H., and Tatu, C.A. Health effects of toxic organic compounds from coal: the case of Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN): US Geological Survey Fact Sheet 004-01, April 2001.
Tatu, C., Ye, J., Arnold, L.W., and Clarke, S.H. (1999) Selection at multiple checkpoints focuses V(H)12 B cell differentiation toward a single B-1 cell specificity. J Exp Med., 190: 903-914.
Arnold, L.W., McCray, S.K., Tatu, C., and Clarke, S.H. (2000) Identification of a precursor to phosphatidyl choline-specific B-1 cells suggesting that B-1 cells differentiate from splenic conventional B cells in vivo: cyclosporin A blocks differentiation to B-1. J. Immunol., 164: 2924-2930.
Tatu, C.A., Orem W.H., Feder, G.L., Finkelman R.B., Szilagyi D.N., Dumitrascu V, Margineanu F., and Paunescu, V.(2000), Additional support for the role of the Pliocene lignite derived organic compounds in the etiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy. J. Med. Biochem., 4: 95-101.
Tatu, C.A., Orem, W.H., Feder, G.L., Paunescu, V., Dumitrascu, V., Szilagyi, D.N., Finkelman, R.B., Margineanu, F. Schneider, F.: 2000b, Balkan endemic nephropathy etiology: a link to the geological environment. Central European Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 6,138-150.
Tatu C.A., Orem W.H., Finkelman R.B., Feder G.L. (1998) The etiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy: still more questions than answers. Environ. Health Perspect. 106:689-700.
Tatu CA, Drugarin D, Paunescu V, Stanescu DI, Schneider F (1998) Balkan nephropathy, the hematopoietic system and the environmental connection. Food Chem Toxicol 36:245-247.
Simon Z, Tatu CA (1998) Immunologic tolerance: self-nonself discrimination vs. costimulatory factors and second signals Med Hypotheses 51:1-3.
Tatu CA, Paunescu V, Stanescu DI, Schneider Fr (1997) P-glycoprotein mediated multidrug resistance assessment by flow-cytometry in malignant hemopathies. Anticancer Res, 17:2583-2586.
Drugarin D, Tatu C, Noveanu L, Paunescu V (1996) Identification of a novel subset of T lymphocytes in patients with Balkanic Nephropathy. Autoimmunity, 23:119-126.
Paunescu V, Tatu CA, Medrea DP, Ionita H, Stanescu DI (1995) A striking correlation of CD23 and CD5 molecules expression in non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Fiziologia-Physiology, 5:57.
Simon Z, Tatu CA (1994) Antigen and antibody concentrations in anergy and autoimmune phenomena: a hypothetical connection. Fiziologia-Physiology, 4:15-17
Tatu CA, Drugarin D, Stanescu DI, Paunescu V (1993) DNA topology and V(D)J recombination: a tentative connection. Roum. Arch. Microbiol.Immunol., 52:255-260.
Drugarin D, Paunescu V, Anghel S, Stanescu D, Tatu CA (1993) A flow-cytometric analysis of the immunomodulatory roles of the immunoglobulins of intravenous therapeutic usage Fiziologia-Physiology, 3:31-34.
Books
Tatu CA et al. (2003) Organic compounds derived from Pliocene lignite and the etiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy. In Skinner C and Berger A, eds. Geology and Health: Closing the Gap, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA.
Paunescu V, Holmberg JC, Tatu CA et al. (1999) Essentials of Immunology, Medical Horizons Publishing House, Timisoara, Romania.
Tatu CA (1998) Apoptosis: a molecular approach. In Actual Aspects of Molecular Biology and Physiology (Simon Z. and Schneider F, eds.), Romanian Medical Life Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania.
Paunescu V, Tatu CA, Stanescu DI, Medrea D (1996) Immunology: Fundamental and Applicative Concepts, Helicon, Timisoara, Romania.
Paunescu V, Medrea D, Tatu CA (1996) Thymus in the senescence process. In Romosan I, Szucik I, eds. Gerontology, Dinamis Print, Timisoara, Romania.