SABITA is glad to announce the first “Critical Mind” event on March 24 at 14.00. Dr. Şükriye Bilir, Dr. Tuba Aktürk and Oğuzhan Köse will join us with their presentations. The event will take place as a hybrid. You can attend the event in person in the SABITA seminar hall.
Location: Istanbul Medipol University Kavacık North Campus: https://goo.gl/maps/JDDjygVtFLWiPiMJA
*Zoom link will be active at the event time.
*Participants from outside SABITA must fill in the participation form.
Dr. Şükriye Bilir took her B.Sc. degree from Istanbul Technical University, Molecular Biology and Genetics department. Followingly, she achieved her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in Japan. Her Ph.D. thesis was about the nuclear pore complex formation mechanisms during cell division under the supervision of Prof. Hiraoka and Prof. Haraguchi. During her postgraduate education, she developed a deep interest towards advanced high-resolution microscopy techniques. Her current research interests include revealing new RNA-protein interactions through high-resolution microscopy. She is interested in RNA metabolism especially on neurodegenerative and neuro-muscular diseases. Her lifetime aim is to be able to develop novel and simple techniques for the visualization of RNA molecules on living organisms which will help to understand the RNA metabolisms more thoroughly.
Tuba Aktürk graduated from Istanbul Kültür University, Department of Psychology in 2015. She was a volunteer research student in a joint project within the Department of Psychology and Brain Research Center in İstanbul Kültür University, co-supervised by the founder Prof. Erol Başar and her undergrad supervisor Prof. Bahar Güntekin. After her bachelor’s, she also had internship experience at The University of Bremen, Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research. She had the chance to take courses from Prof. Başar-Eroğlu about the theoretical infrastructure of brain oscillations. Following the internship, she completed her M.Sc. degree from Istanbul University, Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental Medicine, Department of Neuroscience in 2017. After her master’s degree, she started to work at Istanbul Medipol University, EEG and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Güntekin. At the same time, she started her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Istanbul Medipol University. During her master and doctorate education, she worked as a scholarship student in several projects: 1. “Investigation of Possible Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease in EEG-Brain Oscillations Using Emotional Stimuli” supported by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA), 2. “Investigation of Possible Biomarkers of Cognitive Processes from Mild Cognitive Disorder to Dementia in Parkinson’s Disease supported” by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and 3. “Emotional Processes Evaluation in Dementia: an EEG-Brain Dynamics Analysis” supported by the TUBITAK-French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bosphorus Joint Project. Recently, she finished her joint/double Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience/Cognitive Neuroscience at Istanbul Medipol University Graduate School of Health Sciences and Maastricht University, Faculty of Neuroscience and Psychology, co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Bahar Güntekin and Prof. Dr. Alexander Sack.
Currently, she is working at Istanbul Medipol University as a teaching assistant at the Program of Electroneurophysiology. She is also continuing her work on after effects of neuromodulation on EEG-brain oscillations and cognitive processes, especially memory. Her main research areas are cognitive neuroscience, EEG, EEG-brain oscillations, EEG-signal analysis, non-invasive brain stimulation methods, neuromodulation, cognition, and emotions.
He has a BSc. degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Gebze Technical University, and obtained his MSc. degree in Medical Microbiology from Istanbul Medipol University. He is currently focused on PD-L1+ B cells and their immunosuppressive effects on Non-small Cell Lung Cancer as his PhD research. His experiences on lab techniques; cell culture, flow cytometry, PCR, immunohistochemistry