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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. Ömer Ali Bayraktar Dr. Bayraktar did his postdoc with David Rowitch at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Cambridge as a Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellow. During his postdoc,..
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..
Our recent webinar on June 11st was given by Assoc. Prof. Tunahan Cakir from Gebze Technical University. In this session with high attendance, systems-wide analysis of cell metabolism and modeling networks at genome-scale were major..
Presenter Assoc. Prof. Mohammad Asif Khan Prof. Khan earned his Bachelors degree in Biotechnology, Scientific Computation & Multimedia Communication, National University of Singapore. He earned his MSc and PhD degrees from Bioinformatics Department of National..
Presenter Seyit Kale Seyit Kale received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University in 2006, and his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Structural Biology from Brandeis University in 2012. He continued his..
(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..
Welcome to ISCB SC RSG Turkey’s official website! Most of the people who contact us say “Do you still continue organising webinars with rshfjskh Turkey?”. This “rshfjskh” feeling comes, because, I come to the conclusion..
Presenter Ergi Deniz Özsoy Ergi Deniz Özsoy, 1967 yılında Hannover’da doğdu. 1993 yılında Hacettepe Üniversitesi Fen Fakültesi Biyoloji Bölümü’nü bitiren Özsoy, 1996 yılında yine aynı bölümde yüksek lisans tezini vererek bilim uzmanı oldu. 2002 yılında..
Our July webinar was given by Tugce Bilgin Sonay, from the Department of Computational Biology in the University of Lausanne. In this session, apart from her work, Tugce also explained other studies in this area…
Translational control of cancer and stromal cells – Dr. Ola Larsson AbstractEstrogen receptor alpha (ERα) activity is associated with increased cancer cell proliferation. Studies aiming to understand the impact of ERα on cancer-associated phenotypes have..
microRNAs (miRNAs) belong the family of small non-coding RNAs and regulate many processes in the body via regulating the mRNAs. They are 20 to 25-nucleotides-long small RNAs. Since they are short, and sequences vary only..
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..