Team:Fatih Turkey/Team

Hello everyone! My name is Esra. I’m an Associate Professor of Medical Genetics. This is my third year back in Turkey after staying twelve years in Japan. I mainly work on Cancer Genetics and more specifically on Tumor Suppressor Genes. I do enjoy being with my students and working with them together. iGEM competition has provided us to become closer. I think we share a lot scientifically, socially and friendly together with my students. I also like speaking Japanese and cooking.

I am graduate student for Ph.D. on Tumor Immunology at Sackler Institue of New York University. I have participated iGEM competition several times. I have taken parts in the competition as a student member of METU-Gene 2009 (Silver), METU-Turkey Software 2010 (Silver) and METU-Turkey 2010 (Gold). Now, I have been advisor of Fatih University for couple of months in order to start integration of other universities of Turkey into iGEM and to prepare an environment for establisihing and spreading of new synthetic biology labs through Turkey.

I am a first term student of Fatih University Medical Faculty and I will finish first year on July. When I finish my faculty, I want to be a clinician. I like playing tennis and taking some photos.