Group Photo (Summer 2026)
Group Photo July 2nd, 2026(left to right): AE, A. Utku Özkan, Naz Bardakçı, Hadiya Abdul Hameed, Orhun Okyay, Irmak Aslan, and our collaborator Ozan Sarıyer with the İDO ferry in the background at İstanbul Galata Bridge.
Graduate students
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Ata Utku Özkan (PhD) Structural and dynamic properties of Rotaxene and MnO2 (layered) systems MSN Graduate Program (Ph.D. candidate) |
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Orhun Okyay (PhD) Rheological properties of lamin polymer networks (Master’s).
MSN Graduate Program (PhD) |
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Egemen Altun (MS) Effect of lamina tethering on the mechanical properties of the cell nucleus. MSN Graduate Program (Master’s) |
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Zafer Koşar The role of protein-DNA interactions on the organization of the prokaryotic genome. MSN Graduate Program (Researcher) |
Alumni:
Hadiya Abdul Hameed (MSN Graduate Program 2026). Currently a Ph.D. student @Cambridge U. (UK)
Naz Bardakçi (MSN Graduate Program 2026). Currently a Ph.D. student @Arizona State U. (USA)
Ahmet Yıldırım (Co-advising with Dr. Luca Biancofioare). Currently, Ph.D. student @Northwestern U. (USA)
Ali Göktuğ Attar (MSN Graduate Program 2023). Currently a Ph.D. student @EPFL (Switzerland)
Muzaffar Rafique (MSN Graduate Program 2023). Currently a Ph.D. student @ Case Western Res. U. (USA).
Darya Karimpour (MSN Graduate program 2022). Currently a Ph.D. student @ U. Vancouver (Canada).
Ekrem M. Bahçeci (Koç University/UNAM 2022). Currently a Ph.D. student @ U. Eindhoven (Netherlands).
Group Photo August 31st, 2023(left to right) A. Utku Özkan, Hadiya Abdul Hameed, Orhun Okyay, Naz Bardakçı, AE.
Group Photo August 31st, 2019-2022@Bilkent (Front left to right: Muzaffar Rafique, Darya Karimpour; Rear left to right: Mert Ekrem Bahçeci, Ata Utku Özkan, A. Göktuğ Attar, Zafer Koşar).
Photo by Mete Duman