Mehmet Soner
TÜRKÜNER is a research assistant at the Department of Molecular Biology and
Genetics (MBG) at Gebze Technical University (GTU). He completed his Bachelor's
degree in MBG at GTU as a high honor student (valedictorian) in 2015. He
received his Master's degree from the same department in 2017 with a thesis
regarding the effect of monosodium glutamate on the adipogenic potential of 3t3-l1. He
published his article based on this thesis (DOI: 10.1002/cbin.11269). As an output
of the GTU-Scientific Research Project (2017) project, he made an abstract/poster
presentation on the possible SIK2-based effects of endoplasmic reticulum stress
on human adipocyte secretome profile at the GTU Graduate Research Symposium. He is
currently a Ph.D. student and research assistant in the same department. He continues her studies effect
of SIK2 and proteostasis on hypothalamic neurons and adipogenesis in the
context of obesity etiology as a research fellow
in Tubitak 1001 projects (118Z154 (completed) and 122Z021(Continue)). He is
also working as the High-Resolution Mass Spectrophotometry instrument manager
in the GTU-Central Research Application Laboratory (MAR) Cellular Proteomics
Laboratory. He has extensive experience in LC-MS/MS-based proteomic approaches,
cell culture, confocal-based cell Imaging, molecular cloning, lentiviral-based
gene manipulation systems, recombinant protein production and purification, protein-protein
interactions, adipogenesis, and bioinformatic approaches.
Ayşe Yazıcı is a research assistant at the Department of Molecular
Biology and Genetics (MBG) at Gebze Technical University(GTU). She completed
her Bachelor's degree in MBG at GTU as a high honor student (valedictorian) in
2017. She received her Master's degree from MBG at GTU in 2020. She is
currently a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant in the same department. She continues her studies
on autophagy, ER stress, and neuroinflammation on hypothalamic neurons in the
context of obesity etiology. She tried to determine the dynamic structure of novel
targeted signal complexes and their relations with the above-mentioned
biological processes. She also has extensive experience in molecular cloning, mutagenesis,
real-time quantitative PCR, co-immunoprecipitation, cell culture,
confocal-based cell imaging, recombinant protein purification, and
LC-MS/MS-based proteome, interactome, post-translational modification screening,
and further proteomics-derived functional analyses. In 2017, she
carried out the experiments of her graduation project within the scope of the
“2209A University Students Research Projects Support Program” supported by the
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye. From 2018 to 2021,
she worked as a research fellow in a TUBITAK 1001 project (grand number,
118Z154) supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of
Türkiye. She has worked as a research fellow in another TUBITAK 1001 project
(grand number 122Z021), ongoing since 2022.
