
We believe in "engineering biology" Synthetic Biosystems Lab @METU_ODTU Biological Sciences Department
Ankara, Turkey
Joined October 2018
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In collaboration with @SDumanliOktar Lab we have engineered bacteria to gather physiological information and transmit it through an in-body antenna, enabling real-time health monitoring.
Our work is now published in Nature Communications @NatureComms.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
We are proudly celebrating Dr. Merve Erden's @MerveTucer PhD degree. Merve has worked on transcriptomics analysis of the toxicity of various nanoparticle on healthy liver cells with indentation of hunting new biomarkers for developing synthetic gene circuits to develop +
We are happy to announce the graduation of Cem D. Polat from M.Sc program. Cem, showed engineering of PETase and Metase enzymes and displaying these enzymes on cell surface. This work holds a great promise for developing technologies for plastic degradation.
Our lab members have prepared and edited a new book titled "Synthetic Bİology for Therapeutics", it will be published by DeGruyter as a part of their STEM book series. The hard copy of the book will be released on November 18, 2024.
We have designed a microbe to target § destroy breast cancer cells in vitro . We built an attachment circuits displaying a nano body and a destroy module that secrets a shiva-toxin to attack tumor cell membrane.
the paper is published in @ACSSynBio
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat. Using synthetic biology we have engineered secreted biofilm proteins with antibiotic degrading enzymes : "An Antibiotic-Degrading Engineered Biofilm Platform to Combat Environmental Antibiotic Resistance"
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
We are happy to announce the PhD graduation of our group member @synbiolab Merve Yavuz @mymerveyavuzmy ! She has successfully defended her thesis titled "Genetically Designed Microbes for Bioimaging and Biosensing". #syntheticbiology #biosensing Congratulations! 👏👏👏
Cellulose binding protein enhances the attachment of the bacterial biofilm protein and provides a secure environment for the bacteria, this also protects the bacteria agains many harsh conditions including high temperature and acidity.
In our recent study published in "Biosensors and Bioelectronics" we engineered E. coli to detect heavy metals on paper based platform. To ake the cells attach on the paper, we genetically fused a cellulose binding protein from Cellulomonas fimi
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Today our lab member @ecceavcci has successfully defended her master thesis on developing CRISPR/Cas-13 based therapeutic strategies for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever disease by targeting CCHF Viral genomic material. She has completed in vitro part and now running the in vivo !









