Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

The project of Assist. Prof. Özge Rencüzoğulları, from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, titled "Investigation of Mirna-mediated Drug Susceptibility Targeting Hippo and Wnt Signaling Pathways in Three-Dimensional Cell Models of Gemcitabine-Resistant Pancreatic Cancer" (MOBIGEN), was granted the opportunity of monetary aid under the TÜBİTAK 1002 Rapid Support Program. We congratulate our professor and wish them good luck in their project.

Four TÜBITAK 2209-A applications for the first semester of 2022 were accepted, in which İrem İnce, Arda Güney, Sude Danışman, Miray Nur Aksalih, Emir Gönç, Seda Nur Özer, Eray Kalabalıkoğlu, Hamza Kadir Tamirci, Mehmet Eren Yorulmaz and Berkay Kahraman of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics took part as coordinators and Assist. Prof. Özge Rencüzoğulları, Assist. Prof. Alp Ayan, Dr. Burcu Ayhan Şahin, and Assist. Prof. Pelin Özfiliz Kılbaş were the advisors. We congratulate our advisors and students and wish them continued success.

The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MOBIGEN) held a “Department Orientation Meeting” on Monday, October 3, 2022 to prepare the newly registered students for the 2022-2023 Academic Year. At the meeting where the academic staff of the department was introduced, Assist. Prof. Alp Ayan made a presentation about registering to the courses, how to use the CATS website, about the regulations and the life at the campus.

A detailed information seminar on "Occupational Health and Laboratory Biosafety Rules" was held on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, for students working in the research laboratory of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MOBIGEN). At the seminar given by IKU Occupational Health and Safety Specialist Cumhur Gültekin and one of the academicians in MOBIGEN Res. Assist. Sinan Meriç, the working conditions of research laboratories and the rules to be observed while working in the laboratory environment were explained in detail.

One of the academicians of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MOBIGEN), Assist. Prof. Özge Rencüzoğulları and Assist. Prof. Pelin Özparmak Kılbaş attended the “I. International Advances in Molecular Biology Congress” as invited speakers. Our professors presented the results of their studies in the field of Molecular Biology of Cancer at the congress.

Assist. Prof. Alp Ayan, Res. Assist. Dr. Sinan Meriç and Res. Assist. Tamer, who are academicians of IKU Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MOBIGEN), presented the outcomes of their joint work by participating in the international “IV Balkan Agricultural Congress,” which was held on August 31- September 3, 2022, by Trakya University. In the congress, Assist. Prof Alp Ayan performed his oral presentation titled “RNA Sequencing Analysis of Salt and Drought Tolerance in Gamma-induced Soybean (Glycine max L. Merr) Mutants.”

A seminar was held in the laboratories of Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics on July 7, 2022, in which the special tricks needed to get better results by spending less time in the workflow of the Western Blotting technique, one of the most used methods in protein studies, were held.

İKÜ MOBİGEN participated in the international congress of IUBMB/FEBS/PABMB The Biochemistry Global Summit held in Lisbon, Portugal on 9-14 July 2022 by exhibiting 5 poster presentations. At the event, Dr. Assist. Prof.  Özge Rencüzoğulları, our 2021-2022 graduate students Setenay Şimal Delioğlu, Zehra Giritlioğlu and Helin Karakuş, and our senior students Kerem Yasin Yıldızhan, our third-year students İrem İnce and Yiğit Efe Aydın presented their scientific studies which they had conducted in the laboratories of our department.

Four TÜBİTAK 2209A applications for the second semester of 2021, in which the students of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Kerem Yasin Yıldızhan, Yiğit Efe Aydın, Begum Risha Güler, Muhammet Dereci, Simay Karaburnar, Aleyna Ekinci, Ebru Kılıççeker, Başak Tuana Okyay and Kübra Nur Bayraktaroğlu were the coordinators and Assist. Prof. Alp Ayan, Assist. Prof. Özge Rencüzoğulları, Res. Assist. Dr. Sinan Meriç and Res. Assist. Tamer Gümüş were the advisors, were accepted.

Dr. Saber Delpasand Kabbazi from Karadeniz Technical University attended as a speaker at the conference titled "Molecular Biology and Genetic Approaches to Plants and Biotic Stress Factors" organized by the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. At the event, a comprehensive presentation was made about the current genetic approaches to counter biotic stresses in plants as well as, methods of gene transfer in plants.