Tuba Akgül Çağlar

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Tuba Akgul Caglar received her B.S. degree in Biology from Marmara University. She subsequently earned her M.Sc. degree from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Boğaziçi University, where her research focused on the effects of early and delayed diode laser application on nerve regeneration in a mouse sciatic nerve crush model, using functional, electrophysiological, and histological analyses. During her master’s training, she was awarded an Erasmus/Internship Mobility grant and visited the German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany, where she worked on signal processing in macaque models. She completed her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at İstanbul Medipol University under the supervision of Dr. Esra Çağavi. Her doctoral research aimed to elucidate the molecular and electrophysiological characteristics of heart-specific sensory neurons. To address this, she employed in vivo retrograde labeling, RNA sequencing, neuron–cardiomyocyte coculture models, and optogenetic stimulation approaches. Following the completion of her doctoral studies, Dr. Akgül Çağlar joined the laboratory of Dr. Emrah Eroğlu as a postdoctoral researcher at Sabancı University. During her postdoctoral training, she worked on multimodal live-cell imaging in neurons using genetically encoded biosensors and contributed to application of chemogenetic tools in the nervous system. She was awarded the TÜBİTAK 2218 National Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program to investigate the functional role of nitric oxide in sensory information transmission. Dr. Akgül Çağlar is currently a Senior Researcher at İstanbul Medipol University under SABITA with research interests centered on elucidating nitric oxide signaling in the nervous system using advanced imaging strategies.