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RSG-Turkey aims to establish a framework for the communication and interaction of the students and post-docs working in computational biology and bioinformatics in Turkey, as well as connecting the young Turkish community to its international counterparts. Our main objective is to provide an environment to share the knowledge and experience within the young scientists from various institutions and promote collaboration among them. Moreover, RSG-Turkey plans to expand training and work opportunities of students and researchers in the earlier years of their career. Although computational biology and bioinformatics is a relatively new research area, several groups are performing high quality research in Turkey and the number of students (undergraduates and graduates) and young investigators is substantially high. However, there is an organizational gap for students to convert this high potential into fruitful discussions, information sharing and being aware of each other’s research. There are several nation-wide conferences and workshops regularly taking place in different cities. One of our mission will be bridging the organizational gap e.g. through getting involved in these activities and announcing them. This regional student council will serve to several universities and closely collaborate with the Bioinformatics Council, a recently established national organization which we percieve as the Turkish counterpart of the ISCB. In this way, this student organization will help introducing the industrial and academic research in computational biology and bioinformatics area. Due to the limited range of applications in industry, computational biology and bioinformatics is not a very well-known area among students in Turkey. Encouraging the undergraduates to become more familiar with this field will be another goal for our community. In this means, we are going to arrange short talk series given by local and foreign researchers working in this area, in order to popularize the topic. Additionally, we are going to set up information desks in student centers of the universities to advertise computational biology and bioinformatics.
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Presenter Dr. Ayesha Fatima Dr. Fatima is a pharmacist by profession. She graduated from University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, went to Malaysia for M.Sc and PhD. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry for a..
Presenter Serbülent Ünsal Serbulent Unsal received her B.Sc. degree in Statistics and Computer Sciences from Karadeniz Technical University in Turkey. Following his graduation he continued his M.Sc. degree in Medical Informatics from Middle East Technical..
Presenter Asst. Prof. Yaron Orenstein Yaron Orenstein is a Senior Lecturer and the head of the Computational Biology lab at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Yaron completed..
Presenters Alara Erenel The Co-Occurrence of X, Y, and Z SNPs in BRCA1 Gene: an in silico Investigation Abstract Breast Cancer (BC) is the most common cancer type seen in women and the third most..
Presenter Özge Gizlenci Ozge Gizlenci received her B.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Following her graduation in 2015, she continued her M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biosciences with..
Presenter Prof. Çiğdem Gündüz Demir Çiğdem Gündüz Demir received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer engineering from Boğaziçi University in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and her Ph.D. degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic..
Presenter Assoc. Prof. Niranjan Nagarajan Dr. Nagarajan is Associate Director and Senior Group Leader in the Genome Institute of Singapore, and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Computer Science at the..
Presenters Dilara Uzuner Transcriptional landscape of cellular networks reveal interactions driving the dormancy mechanisms in cancer Abstract Primary cancer cells exert unique capacity to disseminate and nestle in distant organs. Once seeded in secondary sites,..
As one of the biggest studen-driven organizations in Turkey, we are familiar with the challenges the students, especially the post-graduate students face. One of these problems the students face is not having enough time or..
(The original tutorial I prepared with Microsoft Sway last year can be found here.) PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is a method widely used in the wet-lab to amplify the specific target sequences (mostly either directly..
We are very excited to revive our webinar series again! The first webinar of this year was given by Assoc. Prof. Ezgi Karaca from Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center on January 31st. She mentioned about..
Presenter Begüm Serra Büyütarakçı After I completed BSc at Boğaziçi University, Molecular Biology and Genetics department, I moved to Sweden for MSc and studied Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University. Meanwhile, I got interested in bioinformatics..
Title: The FoundationOne® Assay for Genomic Profiling of Solid Tumor Cancers Presenter: Dr. Abdullah Karaman from University Hospital Zurich Date: October 5, 2018 Language: English Abstract: Comprehensive genomic tumor profiling is the basis of precision medicine..
Presenter Dr. Gülşah Merve Kılınç Gülşah Merve Kılınç graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of Biology and received her PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Bilkent University. She worked as postdoctoral researcher at CompEvo Lab..
Presenter David Žihala Abstract Mitochondria of diverse eukaryotes have evolved various departures from the standard genetic code, but the breadth of possible modifications and their phylogenetic distribution are known only incompletely. Furthermore, it is possible..
Presenter Özge Gizlenci Ozge Gizlenci received her B.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Following her graduation in 2015, she continued her M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biosciences with..
First student webinar of this year, which held on March 12th has presented by Melike Donertas. Ageing as one of the inevitable biological process was focus of the presentation named “Gene Expression-Based Drug Repurposing to..
Structures of biological macromolecules cannot be easily determined, as they are flexible, i.e. their conformations change while they function [1]. Therefore, these molecules should be characterized. This characterization step might be very challenging [2]. Structures of these macromolecules..
Title: Cancer Biomarkers Using Integrative Single Cell and Bulk Sequencing Presenter: Akdeş Sevim Harmancı from Date: October 23, 2018 Language: English Abstract: Cancer is a disease of genomic and epigenomic alterations. Single nucleotide changes, copy..
We continue with the tutorial posts regarding data visualization. The first post was about Volcano Plot and how to interpret (in Turkish). Today, I will share the modified version of one example(original codes are here)..