Our esteemed Prof. Dr. Atilla Özalpan, Founding Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MOBIGEN), was commemorated on the 13th anniversary of his passing with a panel titled “Rising of Our Age: Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence” on Friday, March 14, 2025, in the Önder Öztunalı Seminar Hall at the Bakırköy campus Ataköy building.

In the panel, moderated by Prof. Dr. Ozan Kocadağlı from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, who is also a guest lecturer at our university, presentations on the applications of artificial intelligence in molecular biology and health, genetic data analysis and deep learning-based programs they have developed were given by Arda Tekin, a graduate student at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, and the legal dimension of gene editing techniques, the ethical limits of processing medical data by artificial intelligence and the legal dimension of patent processes of artificial intelligence-based biotechnological inventions were presented by Attorney Yıldız Tuğçe Erduran.

In the event, held with the participation of Prof. Atilla Özalpan's family, our Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Gülce Öğrüç Ildız, Prof. Dr. Nihal Sarıer and Assist. Prof. İbrahim Ethem Tarhan from the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Dr. Sevim Akyüz and Prof. Dr. Emel Yavuz from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the academic staff and students of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, the panelists and participants interactively discussed the intersection of molecular biology and artificial intelligence from multiple perspectives, and their legal and ethical dimensions were also evaluated.