 
Attila Tárnok - Candidate
for Biological Cytometry Councilor
Goals and Objectives
My major scientific focus is Predictive Medicine by Cytomics
and Cytomics technologies with special emphasis on slide based
cytometry technologies. My goal is to further propagate Cytometry
and Cytomics technologies for a broad scientific audience especially
in Central and Eastern Europe and facilitate interdisciplinarity.
I support the goals and objectives
of this coalition.
If you vote for me for Biological Cytometry Councilor, please also
vote for J. Paul Robinson for President-elect and
for Bob Zucker for Secretary. Together we have carefully considered
how we can serve ISAC as an executive team. We have thought
through the issues and we think we have good ideas.
Attila Tárnok
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Attila
Tárnok studied biology at the University of Hamburg,
Germany, and graduated in biophysics in 1983; he achieved
PhD in 1988 at the Institute for Biophysics and Radiation
Biology (Horst Jung, Heinz Baisch), at the University of
Hamburg; thesis: "Histochemical detection and quantitation
of leukocyte-subsets in untreated and irradiated Rhabdomyosarcoma
R1H of the rat."
Attila set up his first flow cytometry and cell sorting facility
in 1988 at the Bernhardt-Nocht Institute for Tropical Diseases,
in Hamburg, and did research on eosinophilic granulocyte differentiation
and HIV. In 1989 Attila moved to the GSF research centre in
Neuherberg at Munich (Michael Nüsse). He established the
cell sorting facility and focused his research on irradiation
induced micronuclei formation and chromosome analysis. In 1990
Attila was appointed to establish the independent cell sorting
group at the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology, ZMNH, Hamburg.
His research focused on developmental neurobiology for which
he developed bead based assays and methods to measure and sort
on transient calcium signals, and collaborated in basic immunology.
In 1995 Attila moved to the Medical Research Council at the
Hammersmith Hospital in London to set up and head the cell
sorting and flow cytometry group, focusing research on thymal
immunology and T-cell and endothelial cell function. Since
1996 Attila has been head of the research facility (eight co-workers)
of the Paediatric Cardiology Department (Cardiac Centre, University
of Leipzig, Germany). He investigates the immunology of
trauma and congenital heart disease and age dependence of the
immune response. He develops and establishes nanoscale technologies
for cell diagnostics by flow and slide based cytometry.
In 2001 Attila Tárnok became Associate Professor, Privatdozent,
for Immunology at the University
of Leipzig and is member of the faculty's council. He is
president elect of the German Society for Cytometry, DGfZ,
and Associate Editor of Cytometry. Furthermore, he has been
appointed reviewer and guest editor for Cytometry and other
international journals. Attila has published 36 papers in peer-reviewed
journals as first or senior author (15 in Cytometry) and 19
as co-author. He published 37 papers in proceedings and textbooks,
among others in Current Protocols in Cytometry. Attila organises
interdisciplinary workshops and summerschools on state of the
art cytometry techniques, several of them under the patronage
of the ISAC. Attila is long standing member of the ISAC with
over 30 scientific presentation at ISAC congresses and has
served as tutor and session chair.
His additional activities include: collaborations with and
councillor for biotechnology and instrument development companies;
guest lecturer for the Hungarian Biophysical Society; session
chair and member of organising committees for various international
meetings.
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