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CURRICULUM VITAE<br />
Name <strong>Valeriu</strong> <strong>Bogdan</strong> Cismasiu<br />
Born April 10, 1968; Bucharest, Romania<br />
Citizenship Romanian<br />
Contact Institute of Pathology and Biomedical Sciences “Victor “Babes”<br />
Cell Biology Laboratory<br />
Spl. Independentei no 99-101, sector 5<br />
Bucharest 050096, Romania<br />
Tel: 021-3192732/33;<br />
valeriu.cismasiu@ivb.ro<br />
valeriu.cismasiu@med.lu.se<br />
Full-Time Positions Ian. 2008 - Dec. 2009 Visiting Scientist<br />
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK<br />
(fellowship supported by Stem Cell Center, Lund<br />
and by EMBL)<br />
April 2009 - Dec. 2009 Post-doctoral Fellow<br />
EMBL Mouse Biology Unit, Monterotondo, Italy<br />
Feb. 2007 - March 2009 Post-doctoral Fellow<br />
Lund University, Stem Cell Center, Lund, Sweden<br />
Aug. - Nov. 2006 Scientist<br />
Institute of Biochemistry, Bucharest, Romania<br />
Sept. 2002 - Aug. 2005 Post-doctoral Fellow,<br />
Cell Biology & Cancer Research Department<br />
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, U.S.A.<br />
1997 - 2002 Research Biochemist,<br />
Institute of Biochemistry, Bucharest, Romania<br />
Education 2002 Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology,<br />
Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania<br />
1995 M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics,<br />
University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania<br />
1994 B.Sc. in Biochemistry,<br />
University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania<br />
Training Fellowships 1999/2000 NATO Linkage Grant,<br />
Max – Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology,<br />
Dortmund, Germany<br />
1998 EMBO Short - term Fellowship,<br />
Max - Planck Institute for Biophysics,<br />
Frankfurt/Main, Germany<br />
Editorial Activity since 2009 Assistant Editor / Reviewer<br />
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine<br />
Other activities 2000 - 2002 Research Grant Director<br />
2001 - 2002 Adviser for undergraduate and graduate students<br />
2001 Organiser Committee Membership<br />
FEBS advanced course “Recombinant DNA technology”<br />
Institute of Biochemistry, Bucharest, Romania.<br />
Scientific Society Membership Romanian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Peer-reviewed publications:<br />
Cismasiu V.B., J. Duque, E. Paskaleva, D. Califano, S. Ghanta, & D. Avram; “BCL11B enhances TCR/CD28triggered<br />
NF-kB activation through upregulation of Cot kinase gene expression in T lymphocytes”, Biochem J.,<br />
417 (2), 457-466 (2009)<br />
Cismasiu V.B., E. Paskaleva, S. Suman Daya, M. Canki, K. Duus & D. Avram; “BCL11B is a general<br />
transcriptional repressor of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat in T lymphocytes through recruitment of the NuRD<br />
complex”, Virology, 380 (2), 173-81 (2008)<br />
Cismasiu V.B., S. Ghanta, J. Duque, H-M. Chen, R. Kasturi & D. Avram; “BCL11B participates in the activation<br />
of interleukin-2 gene expression in CD4 + T lymphocytes”, Blood, 108 (8), 2695-702 (2006)<br />
Cismasiu V.B., K. Adamo, J. Gecewicz, J. Duque, Q. Lin & D. Avram; “BCL11B functionally associates with the<br />
NuRD complex in T lymphocytes to repress targeted promoter”, Oncogene, 24 (45), 6753-64 (2005)<br />
Cismasiu V.B., S.A. Denes, H. Reilander, H. Michel & S.E. Szedlacsek; “The MAM (meprin/A5-protein/PTPmu)<br />
domain is a homophilic binding site promoting the lateral dimerization of receptor-like protein-tyrosine<br />
phosphatase mu”, J. Biol. Chem., 279 (26), 26922-31 (2004)<br />
Aricescu A.R., T.A. Fulga, V. Cismasiu, R.S. Goody & S.E. Szedlacsek; “Intramolecular interactions in protein<br />
tyrosine phosphatase RPTPmu: kinetic evidence”, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 280, 319-27 (2001)
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