CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Name:

Tudor LUCHIAN

 

Date and place of birth:

February 26, 1968, Falticeni, Romania

 

Nationality:

Romanian

 

Education:

1994-1997   Ph.D. studies at the ‘Karl-Franzens’ University of Graz (Austria)

1987-1992   Faculty of Physics, ‘Alexandru I. Cuza’ University Iasi, Romania  (Bachelor of science degree in Biophysics)

1982-1986  ‘Nicu-Gane’ High School, Falticeni, Romania

 

Present academic position:

Professor (Faculty of Physics, Department of Biophysics & Medical Physics, ‘Alexandru I. Cuza’ University, Iasi, Romania), Ph. D. adviser in the field of ‘Physics’

 

Career:

July 2006 – October 2006,

Invited professor at University of Oxford (UK)

 

July 2001 – July 2003

Assistant research scientist at Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas, USA).

 

September 1999 – June 2001

Assistant Professor at ‘Alexandru I. Cuza’ University, Faculty of Physics, Dept. of Medical Physics & Biophysics)

 

August 1998 – September 1999

Research officer at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia).

 

December 1994 - October 1997

Ph. D. student at the ‘Karl-Franzens’ University (Faculty of Physics, Biophysics) under the main supervision of Dr. Wolfgang Schreibmayer. On the 27th of October 1997, I have defended with the best grade (‘Mit Auszeichnung Bestanden’), my Ph. D. thesis entitled ‘Gating modulation of a G protein activated, inwardly rectifying potassium channel by a cytosolic applied peptide’.

 

September 1994 - November 1994 

Visiting scientist at the ‘Karl-Franzens’ University of Graz, Faculty of Medicine (Graz, Austria).

 

January 1994 - April 1994

I have attended the European ERASMUS Course in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering held at the University of Patras (Patras, Greece).

 

August 1992 - August 1993 and May 1994 - August 1994

Research scientist at the Biological Research Center, Institute of Biophysics (Szeged, Hungary).

 

July 1992

Having graduated from the Faculty of Physics (Biophysics), ‘Alexandru I. Cuza’ University of Iasi (Romania) with the diploma thesis entitled ‘The influence of chronic denervation on the excitability of the striate muscle’, I was employed as a  research assistant at the Faculty of Physics, Department of Biophysics, ‘Alexandru I. Cuza’ University, Iasi, Romania.

 

Selected publications:

 

 

  1. Loredana Mereuta, Tudor Luchian, Yoonkyung Park and Kyung-Soo Hahm, Single-molecule investigation of the interactions between reconstituted planar lipid membranes and an analogue of the HP(2–20) antimicrobial peptide, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2008, 373(4),  467-472
  2. Alina Asandei, Loredana Mereuta, Tudor Luchian, Influence of membrane potentials upon reversible protonation of acidic residues from the OmpF eyelet, Biophysical Chemistry, 2008, 135, 32–40
  3. Roxana Chiriac, Tudor Luchian, pH modulation of transport properties of alamethicin oligomers inserted in zwitterionic-based artificial lipid membranes, Biophysical Chemistry, 130, 139-147, 2007
  4. Tudor Luchian, Loredana Mereuta, Phlorizin- and 6-Ketocholestanol-Mediated Antagonistic Modulation of Alamethicin Activity in Phospholipid Planar Membranes, Langmuir, 2006, 22, 8452-8457
  5. Tudor Luchian, Seong Ho Shin, Hagan Bayley, Kinetics of a three-step reaction observed at the single-molecule level, ANGEW CHEM INT EDIT 42, 1925-1929, 2003 (reviewed in C & En News, May 5, 2003
  6. Seong-Ho Shin, Tudor Luchian, Steve Cheley, Orit Braha, Hagan Bayley, Kinetics of a reversible covalent-bond-forming reaction observed at the single-molecule level, ANGEW CHEM INT EDIT 41 (19): 3707-3709, 2002 (reviewed in Nature – science update, 7 October 2003)
  7. Richard J. Lewis, Katherine J. Nielsen, David J. Craik, Marion L. Loghnan, Denise A. Adams, Iain A. Sharpe, Tudor Luchian, David J. Adams, Trudy Bond, Linda Thomas, Alun Jones, Jodi L. Matheson, Roger Drinkwater, Peter R. Andrews, Paul F. Alewood, Novel w-conotoxins from Conus Catus discriminate among neuronal calcium channel subtypes, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 275:45, 35335-35344, 2000
  8. Tudor Luchian, Nathan Dascal, Carmen Dessauer, Dieter Platzer, Norman Davidson, Henry Lester, Wolfgang Schreibmayer, A C-terminal peptide of the GIRK1 subunit directly blocks the G protein-activated K+ channel (GIRK1) expressed in Xenopus oocytes , J. Physiology (London), 505.1, 13-22, 1997 (reviewed in J. Physiology, 505.1, 1997

 

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