Safiye Serdengeçti

Safiye Serdengeçti, M.Sc., is a Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience in SABITA. She had done double major in Psychology and English Language and Literature in undergrad in 2015. Then she completed M.Sc. degree in Neuroscience at Neurodegeneration at King’s College London in 2016 with her thesis “Modulation of Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mitochondria Interactions by Tauopathy-associated Mutations” which allowed her to gain experience in various wet lab methods like cell culture, plasmid production, western blot, luciferase assay, immunocytochemistry, fluorescence imaging etc. in Miller lab.

Since 2018, she is doing Ph.D. in Neuroscience in SABITA institute in Istanbul Medipol University and became Ph.D. candidate in 2020. Now she is working on her thesis on imaging neural activity and learning related dynamics of perineuronal nets in CNS using both in vitro and in vivo methods.

She have also actively participated in a TUBİTAK 1001 project “Effects of Breast Milk-derived Cells on Ischemic Brain Injury” and a TÜSEB project “Development of new diagnostic methods by microscopic imaging and machine learning in corneal diseases”.