Ayça Önal

Ayça Önal, M.Sc., continues her Ph.D. in the department of Medical Biology and Genetics at Istanbul Medipol University, SABITA since 2020. She holds a bachelor' s degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics. She has earned her master degree in Medical Biology and Genetics at Marmara University with the thesis titled ''The Association of Mitochondrial MOTS-c Gene Nucleotide Variations with the Etiopathogenesis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease'' under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Fatih Eren.

She currently works under the direction of Dr. Sven Pierre L. VILAIN in the field of molecular mechanism of axolotl regeneration, genetic engineering, CRISPR/Cas9 technologies.