PhD student
Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
My name is Betul M. Ogan and I am a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czechia. I was selected from among 20 candidates and furthermore was honored with the STARS scholarship (Supporting Talented Ph.D. Research Students Call for Applications) under the Immunology Program. My Ph.D. thesis is on “Role of Fam83h in immune system homeostasis”. We also have two collaborations, first with Dr. Jakub Abramson, Weizmann Institute, Israel, and with Dr. Matthew Kutys, University of California San Francisco, USA. I plan to defend my Ph.D. thesis in June 2024.
Before Ph.D., I completed 2 master's programs in Izmir, Turkey within same time frame. One of them was entitled ‘A Role for Activation-Induced deaminase (AID) in pancreatic cancer’ from the program of ‘Medical Biology and Genetics at Ege University. The second one was entitled ‘Effects of fungal extracts with antimicrobial activity on immune-related genes (TNF-α, IL-1β) in Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) from program ‘Aquaculture’ at Katip Celebi University.
I have broad experience in techniques related to DNA, RNA, protein, and cells. In detail, I can do flow cytometry, phenotyping using antibodies (creating cytometry panel), cell culture, cancer patient sample processing, microscopy (Zeiss Axiozoom, Leica), microinjection (fish xenotransplantation models (Casper, QuiH, and Medaka)), mouse necropsy, analysis of the data (supervised and unsupervised (EmbedSOM, ShinySOM using R studio)), RT-qPCR, western blot, cloning, immunohistochemistry, micro-CT scanning. I have used human cancer tissues, cell lines, mice, and fish in my studies as a model.
