Another successful bovine brain prep completed by my team members during the sacrifice feast! This has become a regular opportunity for us to access fresh brain for the prep. I thank them all for their commitment and hard work. Here is to more in vitro experiments!

EMBO Gold Medal awarded to Elvan Böke BökeLab to recognize her pioneering research on physiological mechanisms that enable oocytes to stay healthy over decades of dormancy Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) embo.org/press-releases…

Our girl Leyla Nur arrived on June 27th, becoming our first F1 without a Y chromosome! I've finally gained a female ally at home and I'm excited about the new family dynamics.

Moleküler Biyoloji ve Genetik Bölümü ve Tıp Fakültesi öğretim üyemiz Doç. Dr. Elif Nur Fırat Karalar, Avrupa Moleküler Biyoloji Örgütü’ne (EMBO) asil üye seçildi.

Way to go Melis! #proudPI

We are happy to contribute to a new paper by Oktay I. Kaplan, which generated the Ciliogenics database for predicting novel ciliary genes. Efe Begar used localization and loss-of-function experiments to validate new ciliary proteins in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Res

Including current EMBO YIP Young Investigator Elif Nur Firat-Karalar Koç Üniversitesi and Installation Grantee Ricardo Henriques I Gulbenkian Ciência

Dear CiliaQ users, I uploaded a new CiliaQ version today to the FIJI update page (v0.1.7). It comes with improvements of length measurements in 2D images - more details here: github.com/hansenjn/Cilia…. If you update FIJI it will automatically be installed.

🚨 To all centrosome aficionados ! To celebrate 150 years since the discovery of the centrosome, we are organising 2 sessions on centrioles&centrosomes @ASCB EMBO! With Jadranka Lancarek, Kevin O'Connel and Jennifer Wang 🤩 Join us! Abstract deadline 6th August!

It's not too late to register for #Cilia2024 in Dublin!🇮🇪 The program looks great, we've got an awesome list of speakers from all over the world and across all career stages, plus a #Ciliopathy patient-focused satellite meeting. Join us👇 cilia2024.ie

Detailed Cilia2024 program now published at cilia2024.ie/day-programme/. With 40+ talks, incl 4 keynotes, 220+ posters, and 350+ registrants, you wont want to miss this ! Registration (in person, virtual) is still open. Late abstracts (for posters) accepted until August 23.

I couldn’t agree more!

🔬🔬🔬 ***Imaging TurboID fusion proteins with streptavidin*** Beyond BioID: Streptavidin outcompetes antibody fluorescence signals in protein localization and readily visualises targets evading immunofluorescence detection eLife - the journal elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

We're still accepting submissions for our 'Cell Biology of Mitochondria' special issue, which will be guest edited by Ana Garcia-Saez (Garcia Saez Lab) & Heidi McBride (Heidi McBride, Ph.D). Submission deadline: 1 October. Find out more here: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/mito… #mitochondria

Excited to participate my first meeting since Leyla’s birth. I look forward to giving the EMBO YIP lecture and catching up with colleagues while keeping Leyla happy and well-fed. This is possible as my husband can travel with me and my parents will take care of my sons.

We moved to Jena, light and Science city where the name Stem cell was coined!! We expand our brain organoid research focusing primary cilia in the brain development and disorders. Interested Ph.D,Masters,TAs,Post-Docs, please apply. #organoids, #Cilia,#GSCN.

Thank you Moe for the shoutout!

My 3 month old daughter judged her first conference posters! Meanwhile, my stellar postdoc won a poster prize and İrem presented a poster, I gave an EMBO YIP lecture. It was fantastic reconnecting with old friends and meeting new ones. Huge thanks to organizers of #Cilia2024!

Elif and I are among the first ERC grant winners in Turkey. She is an exemplary mother and scientist, inspiration for all women in science! It is essential that women in science network and support each other. Hence, I greatly enjoy the work I do in ATVBWLC and APSA.