Team:Baskent Meds/Team

Our Instructors

Prof. Dr. Feride Iffet Şahin

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine,Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey

Prof. Dr. Feride Iffet Şahin had her M.D. degree from Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University. She holds her Ph.D. degree in Medical Biology and Genetics from Gazi University Department of Medical Biology and Genetics. She continued her studies at the Department of Medical Oncology, St.Bartholomew’s Hospital, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London as a visiting scientist. She worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Gazi University till 2002. She received her associate professorship degree in 2000. In 2002, she began her work in the Department of Medical Biology and Genetics as the Head of the Department, Başkent University, and in 2004 she became the Head of the Department of Medical Genetics. She held her professorship in 2007. She continues her work as the Head of Department of Medical Genetics, and Department of Medical Biology.

Her main research interests are hematological malignancies and solid tumors. In particular, her recent projects are focused on determination of molecular mechanisms of genetic and sporadic pathologies by integrating new technologies such as microarray technology. Moreover, she is the principal investigator of many projects of the Institute of Transplantation and Gene Sciences which are mainly focused on agricultural biochemistry and biotechnology, genotoxicological studies in agriculture, and anticarcinogenic, antioxidant and antibacterial properties of extracts of endemic plant species. Her technical background covers many basic and new methodologies in molecular genetics, cytogenetics, and animal cell culture.

S he has published over 100 research and review articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals, and wrote 7 book chapters, presented over 120 studies in international and national congresses, and took many awards and scholarships for her studies. Her articles have been cited several times by many reports published in peer-reviewed journals.

 

Dr. Özlem Darcansoy Işeri

Institute of Transplantation and Gene Sciences, Baskent University, Ankara

Dr. Özlem Darcansoy Işeri had her B.Sc. degree from Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2002. She holds her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Biotechnology from METU. She worked as a research assistant at Department of Biological Sciences, METU between 2002 and 2009. In 2009, she began her work in Institute Transplantation and Gene Sciences, Baskent University. She is also the Faculty Staff of the Department of Biomedical Engineering since 2012.

She had studied molecular mechanisms of cancer chemotherapy resistance in her Ph.D. Her recent research interests are abiotic stress tolerance and genotoxicity of abiotic stress factors in plants. She is the coordinator of many projects of the Institute which are mainly focused on agricultural biochemistry and biotechnology, and their field applications. Furthermore, genotoxicological studies of the environmental pollutants such as copper were also covered in projects. She works on antioxidant enzyme and molecule response of different crops to salinity, and the improvement of salt tolerance in crops by conventional agricultural practices such as grafting, seed and seedling pretreatments. In addition, she works on anticarcinogenic, antioxidant and antibacterial properties of extracts of endemic plant species.

Her technical background covers many basic methodologies in molecular genetics, biochemistry, plant and animal cell culture. S he has published 20 research articles and a book chapter, had several international and national congress presentations, and took scholarships. Her publications have been cited over 60 times.

 

Our Advisor

Didem Aksoy Körpe

Didem Aksoy Körpe had her B.Sc. degree from Department of Biology, Ankara University in 2006. She holds her M.Sc. degree from Department of Biology from Ankara University. . In 2008, she began her work in Institute Transplantation and Gene Sciences, Baskent University. Currently she is a Ph.D. student at Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Division, Hacettepe University. She continues her work the institute.

Her recent research interests abiotic stress and genotoxicity in plants, agricultural biochemistry and biotechnology, antibacterial activities of plants, nanoparticles, and nanobiotechnology.

She has published research articles and a book chapter, had international and national congress presentations.

 

Our Student members

Berkhan Genç

Concentration year: 2016

Affiliation: Work-a-holic (a.k.a. Joker)

Hobbies: Playing Guitar like a gypsy, Zombies And Dragons, Reading Fantastic-Fiction Novels, loving his Neighbor's Impala

Favourite song: Sirena - Mental Symphony

Sevecen Kaplan

Concentration year: 2016

Affiliation: Art Director

Hobbies: Photography, Painting, Making Collage,searching for pretty little necklesses, looking for kaleidescopes, searching for indie on the internet, running, , Art-a-Holic!

Favourite song: The Shins - Australia

way to pass while waiting for PCR: watching 6 episodes of "How I Met Your Mother"

 

Cansu Çelik

because i think "new" is the greatest thing in life. meeting new people, experience new things, doing something i've never done before, travelling to places i've never seen. And the peaceful joy of creating something that had never been existed before. all those things keep me alive and happy. that's why i'm in our lovely team.

life long dream: breaking a fresh ground in psichiatry. yes this is it :)

mission: Contact Person; taking care of social network pages. writing the lab-book,

walking around aimlessly and triying to learn every single thing during experiments.

Hobbies: writing very bad poems and not that bad stories reading books discovering new writers shopping in second-hand book store nail polish collector dancing on saturday nights baking three minutes microwave brownie tea and coffee listenning indie and 90's rock music

favourite song: Garbage boys - wanna fight?

Süleyman Mert Yigitbaşı

Concentration year: 2016

Mission: translations, experiments

Why igem: I'm still trying to figure out why

Hobbies:

music (playing bass guitar in a metalcore band called Ascension, you should check it), cooking, ice-hockey, swimming

Lifelong dream:

1- Travel around our country on a chopper

2- world tour with my band

Favourite songs: Pearl jam - yellow ledbetter

 

Başak Alan

Concentration year: 2016

Affiliation: Vector Designer

Hobbies:Playing Go, Watching Anime, Seeing Films in Cinema, Improvising songs for my crying-Flute

Favourite song: RadioHead - Go Slowly

way to pass while waiting for PCR: Drinking a case of Açkar Ayran

Burak Gülşen

Concentration year: 2017

Affiliation: Web Designer, wannabe LabRat

Hobbies: Music listening and trying to improvise his own, learning languages(nowadays very preliminary hobby this become), reading books, Philosophy; especially Far East and modern materialist-based Philosophies, also some sports Judo, aikido, Yoga

Favourite song(s): Rachmaninoff - Opus:4 No:4
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - Again
way to pass while waiting for PCR: Experimenting aikijutsu techniques on Cansu

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