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2015(in press) Our research article has been published in Plos One. (Intestinal Microbiota in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury.)
04-08.11.2015 IG participated to 6. Bulaşıcı Hastalıklar Derneği Toplantisi (BUHASDER), Dalaman, Mugla, Turkey
Sept.-Dec.2015 BB worked as a short-term graduate researcher in Viral Immunology Laboratory, University of Zurich, Zurich, SWITZERLAND, EFIS-IL Short Term Fellowship, EFIS
Nov.2015 GTK started t0 work in Kizil Lab, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Dresden, Germany, as a post doctoral fellow
28.11.2015 GG participated to 22. National Allergy and Clinical Immunology Meeting, Antalya, Turkey, (Oral Presentation, Turkish)
30.09.-03.10.2015 FE participated to International Congress of Familial Mediterranean Fever and Systemic Auto-Inflammatory Diseases, Dresden, Germany. (Oral Presentation)
30.09.-03.10.2015 FE won travel award by International Congress of Familial Mediterranean Fever and Systemic Auto-Inflammatory Diseases, Dresden, Germany.
Aug.- Nov.2015 GG worked as a short-term graduate researcher in Translational Immunology Unit Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, EFIS-IL Short Term Fellowship, EFIS
09.10.2015 IG participated to Health Sciences in Bilkent, ERA-TR Workshop, Ankara, Turkey
15.09.2015 Muzaffer Yıldırım joined our lab.
6-9.09.2015 All group members participated to 4th European Congress of Immunology (ECI), Vienna, Austria
GTK, TK, BB, BH, BY, HK, ESK, KA (Poster Presentation) 
GTK, TK, BB, HK, KA (Registration award by Turkish Society of Immunology)
BH, BY (Registration and travel award by Turkish Society of Immunology)
ESK (Travel award by European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS))
28.08.2015 Merve Aydın received PhD Degree
27-30.05.2015 IG participated to 10. Türk İmmünoloji Derneği Bölgesel Sempozyumları, Namık Kemal Üniversitesi, Tekirdag
26-28.05.2015 IG participated to 23rd National Immunology Congress, Antalya, Turkey 
25-26.05 2015 IG participated to Turkey-Singapore Joint Workshop on Molecular Biology, Ankara, Turkey
25-26.05.2015 GTK & BB participated to Turkey-Singapore Joint Workshop on Molecular Biology, Ankara, Turkey (Oral presentations).
18-23 .12.2015 IG participated to 7th ILS Liposome Advances Conference-Progress in Drug and Vaccine Delivery, London, UK
18- 19.05 2015 IG participated to EACR-Sponsored 3rd Anticancer Agent Development Congress, Dokuz Eylul University Izmir, Turkey
27-30.04.2015 All group members participated to 23rd National Immunology Congress, Antalya, Turkey
GTK, BB, BH, HK, ESK, KA (Poster Presentation) & TK (Oral Presentation)
GTK, BB, BH, HK (Best poster awards)
GTK, BB, BH, BY, HK, ESK, KA (Registration award by Turkish Society of Immunology)
TK (Oral Presentation Bursary, Turkish Society of Immunology)
23-16.04. 2015 DB, GG participated to ISEV 2015 Annual Meeting. Bethesda, MD, U.S.A. 
02.04.2015 IG participated to ASO Sağlık Odaklı, Üniversite Sanayi İşbirliği Çalıştayı, Bilkent Üniversitesi
26-28.03.2015 GG & BY participated to ME-HAD EV Training School Trainee, COST Action BM1202, Siena, Italy
18.03.2015 Our research article has been patented. (USPTO Provisional Application No: 62134597, 18-03-2015) I. Gursel. M. Gursel, S.Kilic, E Alpdundar, Immunostimulatory activity of cyclic dinucleotides complexed with a cell-penetrating peptide or combined with CpG Oligodeoxynucleotides and their use. 
25.02.2015 Our research article has been patented. (USPTO Provisional Application No: 62120402, 25-02-2015) I. Gursel. M. Gursel, F.C. Yagci, B. Gungor, CpG ODN Nanorings as Vaccine Adjuvants. 
16-17.01.2015 IG participated to EMBO-MBD Winter Retreat, Bilkent, Ankara
08.10.2014 TK won the YFYİ 2014 (New Ideas New Jobs 2014), Teknokent İstanbul USA Boot Camp Special Award, Ankara, Turkey 
15.10.2015 TK won the TUBITAK BIGG 1512 Entrepreneurship Multi-phase Programme Development of next generation prostate cancer diagnostic kit. 
15.09.2014 Elif Senem Kaya, Hakan Köksal, Fehime Kara Eroğlu, and Begüm Yıldız joined our lab.
15.09.2014 Yusuf İsmail Ertuna received MSc Degree and started his PhD at University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine, Viral Immunology, Basel, Switzerland.
01.07.2014 Our research article has been selected as a research highlight in the 13th issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.
01.06.2014 Merve Deniz Abdüsselamoğlu received MSc Degree and started her PhD at Vienna Biocenter, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria.
25.05.2014 “Kanserle savaşta ‘nano halka’ devri” - MİLLİYET.
08.05.2014 Our research article has been selected as a cover story of the latest issue of Science Translational Medicine.
01.05.2014 Defne Bayık  started to work in Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, National Cancer Institue, Maryland, USA as a research fellow.
22-30.04.2014 All group members participated to 2nd MIMIC 2014, Antalya, Turkey.
GTK, FCY, BB, DB, BH, KA (Poster Presentation) & TK, GG (Oral Presentation)
GTK, FCY, BB, DB, BH, KA (Turkish Society of Immunology bursary & TK, GG (Registration & accomodation bursary by EFIS).
Fuat Cem Yağcı won the best poster presentation award.
01.01.2014 Fuat Cem Yağcı  received received PhD Degree and started to work in Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Thorlab, Ankara, Turkey as a Postdoc.
22-27.08.2014 GTK, FCY, BB, DB, TK, GG participated to 15th International Congress of Immunology, Milano, Italy.
GTK, FCY, BB, TK, GG (Travel award by EFIS) & GG, TK (Turkish Society of Immunology bursary).
02.03.2013 Türkiye’de Başarılı Bir Kıbrıs’lı Türk” HAVADİS.
14-17.12.2013 Gözde Güçlüler won the best podium presentation prize in 6th ILS International Conference, LIPOSOME ADVANCES: Progress in Drug and Vaccine Delivery, London, UK.
01.12.2013 Mehmet Şahin received MSc Degree and started his PhD at University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine, Viral Immunology, Basel, Switzerland.
01.08.2013 İhsan Dereli received MSc Degree  and started his PhD at Technical University Dresden, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Medical Theoretical Center, Dresden, Germany.
27-30.04.2013 GTK, FCY, BB, DB, TK, GG participated to 22nd National Immunology Congress, İzmir, Turkey.
FCY, DB, TK, GG (Poster Presentation), GTK, BB (Oral Presentation)
01.01.2013 Gizem Tinçer König received PhD Degree and started to work in Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Thorlab, Ankara, Turkey as a Postdoc.
04.11.2012 BB & GG (Poster presentation) participated to EFIS-EJI Course on Innate Immunity 2012: From Evolution to Revolution, Sorrento, Italy.
BB & GG (Registration scholarship by EFIS)
27-29.08.2012 Banu Bayyurt was granted to participate to The Novartis International Biotechnology Leadership Camp (BioCamp), Basel, Switzerland with full scholarship including living and traveling expenses by Novartis Company.
23-25.05.2012 GTK, FCY, BB, TK, GG (Poster Presentation) participated to 10th CIMT Annual Meeting, Mainz, Germany, 
GTK & FCY (Association for Cancer Immunotherapy registration bursary).
19-22.05.2012 BB & GG (Poster Presentation) participated to EMBL Symposium: New Perspectives on Immunity to Infection, Heidelberg, Germany.
BB & GG (Registration and Travel Award by EMBO)
27-29.04.2012 GTK, FCY, BB, TK, GG (Turkish Society of Immunology bursary) participated to MIMIC 2012, Antalya, Turkey.
GTK, TK, BB (Poster Presentation) & FCY (Oral Presentation).
23-25.11.2011 GTK, FCY, BB, TK, GG, MŞ, İD participated to 17th International Symposium on Biomedical Science and Technology, Ankara, Turkey.
GTK, TK, BB, GG (Poster Presentation) & FCY (Oral Presentation).
15-17.04.2011 GTK, FCY, BB, TK, GG (Poster Presentation) participated to Advances in Immunology and Cancer Biology Workshop, İstanbul, Turkey.
6-9.04.2011 GTK, FCY, BB, TK, GG participated to 21st National Immunology Congress, Marmaris, Turkey.
GTK, TK, FCY (Oral Presentation) & BB, GG (Poster Presentation)
08.10-03.11 Gizem Tincer König started to work inThe WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Osaka, Japan with Kishimoto Foundation Fellowship.
22–27.08.2010 GTK, TK, FCY (Poster Presentation) participated to 14th International Congress of Immunology, Kobe, Japan.
01.08.2010 İbrahim Fırat Taş received MSc Degree and started to work in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA as a Lab Technician / Research Assistant.
01.08.2009 Kutay Karatepe received MSc Degree and started his PhD in Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Massachusetts, USA.
01.08.2009 Erdem Erikçi received MSc Degree and started his PhD in Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
01.08.2008 Hande Koçak received MSc Degree and started his PhD in University of Michigan, Department of Human Genetics, Michigan, USA.
01.09.2007 Gizem Tinçer König received MSc Degree and started her PhD in Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Thorlab, Ankara, Turkey.
Popular Science Publications:
 I. Gursel, F.C. Yagci, G. Tincer, T. Kahraman, M. Gursel. Novel applications of DNA nanoparticles in nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology, Science and Technology Journal (TUBITAK publication, Turkey), 520:44-48. March 2011.
F.C. Yagci, G. Tincer, T. Kahraman, E. Erikci, K. Karatepe, B. Bayyurt, G.Gucluler, I. Gursel., Contribution of nanobiosciences to applied immunology: More effective imunotherapeutic applications of TLR ligands, Tr. J.Immunol, 1:15-17, 2011.
I. Gursel, Immune modulatory effects of DNA: Science and Technology Journal (TUBITAK publication, Turkey), 517:44-48. December 2010.