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Feb, 2024

 I started my post-doctoral employment in the Zoology Department of Charles University, Prague!

Jan, 2024

On January 18, 2024, I successfully defended my PhD thesis, with jury members Oleksiy Yanchukov, Faruk Çolak, Efe Sezgin, Åženol Alan, and Mehmet Somel.

Oct, 2023

Apr, 2023

July, 2023

I had an oral presentation at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium of Türkiye.

Apr, 2023

I got the WAME research exchange Grant! I will be working at Charles University in Prague for 3 months (24 April - 8 May 2023) on the 18S diet dataset of my Ph.D. Study. 

Host Supervisor: Jakub Kreisinger

Apr, 2023

Our new paper entitled "The Microbiota of Long-Living And Cancer-Free Blind Mole Rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) from the Edge of its Distribution in Northern Anatolia" is submitted to Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series C Biology.

Aug, 2022

I had a poster presentation in ESEB2022.

May, 2022

I got the EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant! I will be working at the Laboratory of Evolutionary Interactions of Holobionts, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences for 3 months (June - September 2022) on 16s amplicon sequencing, from wet lab procedures to bioinformatic analysis. 

Host Supervisor: Dagmar ÄŒížková

February, 2022

Our team organized a workshop entitled "Rad Sequencing: From library preparation to data analysis". As part of our TUBITAK 1001 project. Partly supported by EkoEvo.

January, 2022

I applied to EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants to work on 16s amplicon sequencing, from wet lab procedures to bioinformatic analysis. Project title: "Variation in the composition of gut microbiota of Anatolian Blind Mole Rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) across the altitude gradient".

March, 2021

New project entitled "The effect of the altitude on microbiome composition of Anatolian Blind Mole Rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) in Central Taurus mountains" officially started. TUBITAK 1002

August, 2020

I won the "EkoEvo Student Awards; Best International Publication Award".

February, 2020

I had a poster presentation in Zoologıcké Dny 6-7 February 2020, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

February, 2020

New project entitled "The complete, genome-wide phylogenetic history of speciation and adaptive radiation in Blind Mole Rats (Spalax and Nannospalax) in their entire distribution range" officially started. TUBITAK 1001

February, 2020

Our new paper entitled "Altitudinal effects on innate immune response of a subterranean rodent" is published by Zoological Science Journal.
DOI: 10.2108/zs190067

December, 2019

I finished my MSc. Thesis title:  "Altitudinal Effects on Innate Immune Response and Local Population Genetic Structure of Nannospalax xanthodon (Anatolian Blind Mole Rat)".

August, 2019

Our new paper entitled "Altitudinal effects on innate immune response of a subterranean rodent" is accepted by Zoological Science Journal.

July, 2019

I had a poster presentation in EEBST 2019.

May, 2019

I visited Ä°lia State University, Georgia to present my study and work on their molecular lab for analyze my samples.

October, 2018

I had a oral presentation in Subterranean Rodent Workshop, VII. EGSM.

September, 2018

I started my Erasmus internship at Bielefeld University, Germany.

July, 2018

I had a poster presentation in EEBST 2018.

January, 2018

I started Master's education in Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University.

September, 2017

I completed my bachelor's at the Bolu Abant Ä°zzet Baysal University, Bolu, Türkiye.

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