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Şafak Işıl Çevik

 
IsilSafakCevik      Contact Info: safakisil@gmail.com
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Academic Degrees
2006-2010 Ph.D. Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Batu Erman
2003-2006 M.Sc. Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Batu Erman
1999-2003 B.S. Molecular Biology and Genetics Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Publications
S.I. Cevik, N. Keskin, S. Belkaya, M.I. Ozlu, B. Erman. CD81 interacts with the T cell receptor to suppress signaling. PLoS One, 7(11):e50396, 2012.
D. Ligons, C. Tuncer, B.A. Linowes, I.M. Akcay, S. Kurtulus, E. Deniz,B. Arslan, S.I. Cevik, H.R. Keller, M. Luckey, L. Feigenbaum, T. Moroy, T. Ersahin, R. Atalay, B. Erman and J.H. Park, “CD8 lineage-specific regulation of interleukin-7 receptor expression by the transcriptional repressor Gfi1.”, J Biol Chem., 287(41):34386-99, 2012.
 
I. Sogut, I. Hatipoglu, M. Serhatli, S.I. Cevik, D. Durali, A. Basalp. Cryopreservation of spleen and lymph nodes as a surce of mononuclear cells to be used for the development of monoclonal antibody producing hybridoma cells. Cryo Letters, 32 (3), 266-274 , 2011.
D. Nalbant, H.Youn, S.I. Nalbant, S. Sharma, E. Cobos, E.G. Beale, Y. Du, S.C. Williams. FAM20: an evolutionarily conserved family of secreted proteins expressed in hematopoietic cells. BMC Genomics, 6(1):11, 2005.
Research Experiences
2012-… Research Associate Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. İhsan Gürsel, THORLAB, Bilkent University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ankara, Turkey.
 
2010-2012 Post doctoral
research fellow		 Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Uygar Tazebay
Generation of Ccdc124 knock-out mice and functional characterization of Ccdc124 gene.” and “Generation of a monoclonal antibody specific to a novel midbody protein Ccdc124
Bilkent University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Turkey.
 
2002 Summer Internship Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Simon WilliamsIdentification and characterization of a novel gene that belongs to a conserved family of secreted proteins expressed in hematopoietic cells
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Summer Acelerated Biomedical Research(SABR) Programme, USA
 
Scholarships and awards
  • National postdoctoral research scholarship programme, TÜBİTAK (BIDEB 2218), “Generation of Ccdc124 knock-out mice and functional characterization of Ccdc124 gene.”, 2010-2012.
  • Invited Speaker, Biogem Institute of Genetic Research, “Stimulation of Rap2-specific guanine nucleotide exchange by RasGEF1 family.”, Italy, May 2010.Apr. 2012.
  • Registration award by EMBO Workshop “New Functions of Regulatory RNAs in Pro- and Eucaryotes”, Austria, Jan. 2009.
  • Registration, travel and accommodation awards by EMBO Chromatin Plasticity Network, Spetses Summer School on Chromatin and Transcription, Greece, Sept. 2008.
  • Registration award by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings, “Gene Expression and Signaling in the Immune Sytem”, USA, Apr. 2008.
  • Travel and accommodation awards by EMBO, Chromatin Plasticity Network, Advanced Topics in Chromatin Biology and Presentation Skills Training, Portugal, Jan. 2008.
  • National Scholarship Programme for PhD Students, BIDEB 2211 TÜBİTAK, 2007-2010.
  • Project bursary, TÜBİTAK project (TBAG-104T237). “Role of Cd3delta in T cell receptor signaling.”, 2006-2007.
  • Full scholarship, Graduate education, Sabanci University, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering,, 2003–2006.