Melisa Eryaşar

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Melisa Eryaşar is currently a second-year medical student at Istanbul Medipol University. She graduated from Yüksel İlhan Alanyalı Science Highschool in 2021.

In highschool she carried out 2 TÜBİTAK projects in the fields of nano-drugs and coding games for foreign language learning. In addition to this she was the chair of e-Twinning/Erasmus club for 2 years and founded the English debating club where she organized debates and did excellent degrees in local debates in Istanbul.

In 2022 , under the guidance of her supervisor Prof. Dr. İlknur Keskin, she started her internship in Histology-Embryology Lab, practicing sectioning, tissue staining and processing, also observing methods such as Western Blot and immunohistochemistry technics.

Having interest in computational biology, she started her minor degree in Biomedical Engineering on Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. She is doing her TÜBİTAK project on Internet-based monitoring of Huntington's disease and investigation using a protein network analysis approach with Assist. Prof. Kıvanç Kök.