Seminars

2018

• August 15th, 13:30 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Prof. Dr. Kamran Ghaedi: "Diverse Functions of FNDC5: Biochemical and Molecular Aspects"
  Department of Biology, University of Isfahan
• August 1st, 13:30 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Bahar Degirmenci, PhD: "GLI1-expressing mesenchymal cells form the essential Wnt-secreting niche for colon stem cells"
  University of Zurich, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences
• June 25th, 13:30 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Ismail K. Saglam, PhD: "An evolutionary genomic framework for conservation and biodiversity"
  Visiting Scholar, University of California Davis, Department of Animal Science
• June 21st, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Mirza S. Baig, Ph.D: "Regulatory Mechanisms Controlling Inflammation"
  Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI)
• May 16th, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Assoc. Prof. Sinan Güven: "Assembly Technologies in Tissue Engineering"
  İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (iBG)
• May 4th, 13:40-15:40 Lab-on-a-chip demo day (SBZ-14)  Lab-on-a-chip demo day
• May 3rd, 13:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Asli Ayaz, PhD: "Context-dependent sensory processing, through a window into the brain"
  Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich
• May 2nd, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Assoc. Prof. Ozgur Sahin: "Integrative Approaches to Overcome Drug Resistance in Breast Cancer"
  Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University
• April 25th, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Asst. Prof. Muslum Ilgu: "Aptamers as promising tools in biotechnological applications"
  Department of Biological Sciences,  METU
• April 18th, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Asst. Prof. Ozden YALCIN-OZUYSAL: "Pro-metastatic functions of Notch signaling is mediated by CYR61 in breast cancer"
  Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Izmir Institute of Technology
• April 11th, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Asst. Prof. Urartu Ozgur Safak Sezer: "Bottom-Up Biosystem Design Using Synthetic Biology"
  Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University
  UNAM- National Nanotechnology Research Center
• April 5th, 12:30 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Asst. Prof. Huseyin Cagatay Yalcin: "Mechanobiology of Cardiovascular Diseases"
  Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University
• April 4th, 15:40 Faculty of Science Seminar (SA-240) Dr. Khalid Fakhro: "Towards Precision Medicine in Understudied Global Populations - The Qatar Experience" 
  Sidra Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College in Qatar and Hamad Bin Khalifa University
• March 28th, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Asst. Prof. Umut Sahin: "PML Nuclear Bodies: From APL (Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia) Cure to Novel Therapeutic Perspectives"
  Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bogazici University
• March 14th, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Asst. Prof. Erkan Kiris : "Genetic and Chemical Biology Approaches to Modulate Specific Neuronal Pathways Crucial for Neurodegenerative or Neurotoxic Conditions"
  Department of Biological Sciences,  METU
• February 28th, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Asst. Prof. Acelya Yilmazer Aktuna: "Graphene Based Nanomaterias for Cancer Therapy"
  Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ankara University
• February 14th, 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Prof. Dr. Ihsan Gursel: " Thorlab's Efforts to Develop Nucleic Acid Based Immunotherapeutics Against Cancer, Autoimmune, Allergy and Infectious Diseases."
  Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent
• February 7th (Postponed to Feb 21st), 15:40 Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14) Asso. Prof. Ozlen KONU: "Zebrafish models for xenotransplantation and drug screening in cancer research".
  Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent
• February 2nd, 13:30 (SB-Second Floor Seminar Room) Dr. Michael Hansen: "The identification of robust microRNA biomarkers in biofluids and the evaluation of long non-coding RNA targets" .
  Exiqon Senior Scientist and Technical Specialist

2017

• April 19th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Asst. Prof. Berat Z. Haznedaroglu: “OMICS” characterization of microalgae: Implications for improved biochemicals production”.
  Therapeutic Biologics in UtopicPharma LLC, FL, USA

• March 29th, 15.40 (SBZ-14)Asst. Prof. Emine Ulku Saritas Cukur, EE Bilkent University

• March 22nd, 15.40 (SBZ-14)Asst. Prof. Mustafa Guzel, Medipol University

• March 8th, 13.00 (SBZ-14)Prof. Dr. Mesut Muyan, Pelin Yasar METU

• March 1st, 15.40: Faculty of Science Seminar, Topological Effects in Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics An overview of the 2016 Nobel Prize  (SU-01)Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ozgur Oktel, Bilkent University, Department of Physics

• February 22nd, 15.40: Automated Approaches in Functional Analysis of Biomolecular Data, (SBZ-14)Dr. Tunca Dogan, Research Fellow, Faculty Candidate in Department of Health Informatics, METU, Turkey. Post-doctoral Fellow in EMBL-EBI

• February 8th, 14.30: Fundamentals of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing, Dr. Johanna De Castro Arce (SBZ-14)

2016

• November 23rd, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Assist. Prof. Mona El Khatib: Autophagy repression: A novel anti-leukemic function of histone deacytelase inhibitors in myeloid leukemias.
  Abdullah Gül University (AGÜ), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

• November 9th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Assist. Prof. Fatih Kocabaş: Hematopoietic Stem Cells Expansion Post Gene Editing Procedures
  Dept. of Genetics and Bioengineering, Yeditepe University.

• October 19th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Assoc. Prof. Basri Gülbakan: Oligonucleotide aptamers: emerging affinity probes for bioanalytical mass spectrometry and biomarker discovery.
  Paediatric Basic Sciences, Division of Metabolism. Institute of Child Health, Hacettepe University

• October 10th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Altan Ercan: Immunoglobulin G glycosylation; its regulation by sex hormones and contribution to rheumatoid arthritis.
  Therapeutic Biologics in UtopicPharma LLC, FL, USA

• October 5th, 13.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Aydan Bulut-Karslıoğlu: Inhibition of mTor induces a paused pluripotent state.
  Institute of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research UCSF, USA.

• September 28th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Assist. Prof. Onur Çizmecioğlu: Rac1-mediated membrane raft localization of PI3K/p110-beta is required for its activation by GPCRs or PTEN loss.
  MBG, Bilkent University.

• April 27th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Assoc. Prof. Özlen Konu: Zebrafish as a model for comparative transcriptomics and drug screens.
  MBG, Bilkent University.

• April 20th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Assist. Prof. Duygu Sağ: ABCG1: A link between cholesterol homeostasis and tumor immunity.
  İBG - İzmir.

• April 13th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Assist. Prof. Dr. Funda Şar: Defects in miRNA biogenesis leads to a functional decline in proteostasis.
  Department of MBG, Koç University.

• March 30th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Assoc. Prof. Dr. Michelle Adams: Cognitive Aging and Its Relationship to Neuronal Structure and Function.
  Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Bilkent University.

• March 23rd, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Asst. Prof. Öznur Taştan: Predicting Survival Rate of Cancer Patients via Learning to Rank.
  Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University.

• March 16th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Asst. Prof. Dr. Yasser Riazalhosseini: Multi-parameter characterization of cancer genome to identify driver aberrations.
  Department of Human Genetics and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, McGill University.

• March 9th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Assoc. Prof. Dr. Güneş Esendağlı: The untold story of IFN-γ in cancer biology.
  Hacettepe University, Cancer Institute.

• February 17th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Asst. Prof. Dr. Nurhan Özlü:  Proteomic Analysis of Cell Surface Changes During Cell Division.
  Koç University, MBG.

• February 17th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Asst. Prof. Dr. Can Küçük:  Functional genomics of NK and γδ T cell lymphomas: therapeutic and diagnostic implications.
  İBG - İzmir.

• February 10th, 15.40: Departmental Seminar (SBZ-14)Asst. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wingender: IL-10-producing NKT10 cells are a novel regulatory iNKT cell subset.
  İBG - İzmir.

2015

• December 28, 13.40: PhD. Thesis Seminar (SBZ-14)Şükrü Atakan: Identification and Utilization of Autologous Anti-Tumor Antibodies for the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Cancer.
  Bilkent University, MBG.

• December 23, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Assist. Prof. Nurcan Tunçbağ: Robust Network Modeling Identifies Personalized Therapeutic Strategies in Glioblastoma.
  METU, Institute of Informatics

• December 16, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Yasemin Yozgat: Age-dependent changes in KIT signaling and imatinib response oncogenic in a mouse model of gastrointestinal stroll tumor.
  Medical School, Medipol University

• December 9, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Assist. Prof. Ercüment Çiçek: Network-based Analyses of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  Department of Computer Science, Bilkent University

• December 2, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Abdullah Kahraman, PhD: Combining computational, structural, and systems biology to study oncogenesis
  Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich

• November 25, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Asst. Prof. Özlem Yalçın: Storage Lesion: Hemodynamic Changes After Transfusion of Stored Blood
  Koç University, Medical School

• November 18, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Assist. Prof. Pınar Yılgör Huri: Biomimetic Strategies in Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
  Ankara University -- Department of Biomedical Engineering; METU BIOMATEN Center of Excellence in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

• November 16, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Erdem Erikci, PhD: MicroRNA-212/132 Family is Involved in the Regulation of Long-Term Spatial Memory and Synaptic Remodeling
  Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Gıttingen, Germany

• November 11, 10.30: Seminar (SBZ-14)Assist. Prof. Özgür Kütük: Targeting cell death pathways in cancer therapy
  Department of Medical Genetics, Başkent University School of Medicine

• November 6, 10.30: PhD Thesis Presentation (SBZ-14)Nilüfer Sayar, PhD Thesis Presentation: Unmasking of Epigenetically Silenced Genes and Identification of Transgelin as a Potential Methylation Biomarker in Breast Cancer
  Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University

• October 21, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Assoc. Prof. Doug Van Hoewyk: Proteasome inhibition requires metabolic adjustments in plants: implications for improved crop yield and rare Turkish plants
  Department of Biology, Coastal Carolina University

• October 14, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Selvi Durmuş Erim, PhD: Drug transporters in predicting efficacy of anti-cancer drug treatment
  Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University

• October 7, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Dr. Jennifer Corbett: Perceptually averaging fills-in the grand illusion of stable and complete visual perception
  Department of Psychology, Bilkent University

• October 2, 13.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Dr. Ahmet Can Berkyürek: Open and closed conformations of DNA methyltransferase-1 (Dnmt1) controls the maintenance DNA methylation in mammals
  Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University

• September 29, 10.30: Seminar (SBZ-14)Ece Akhan, Ph.D. Thesis Presentation: The Use of Nanoparticle Labeling in Cellular Trafficking
  Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University

• September 18, 14.40: Seminar (SBZ-14)Dr. Azmil Abdul-Rahim: Stroke in Heart Failure & Optimising the Use of Existing Trials Data: Opportunities for New Research Collaborations
  Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK

• September 16, 15.40: Seminar (SBZ-14):Assoc. Prof. Aytekin Akyol: Biomarker-Based Approaches to Colorectal Cancer
  Department of Medical Pathology, Hacettepe University Medical School