PhD THESIS PROJECT
Metabolic Profiling of Stem Cells: Glycolytic Stem Cell Metabolism regulation by HIF1A through Stem Cell Factors.
Sadek Lab, Spring 2009
PROJECT WORKS DONE AT UTSW
1.Characterization of mash1-expressing neurons in the mature embryonic mouse spinal cord
2. Exploration of the cis-acting elements of proteins that are possibly related to Math1 activity or affected by math1
3.Determination of CAMTA DNA binding domain
4. Searching Specific Markers for Early Pancreas Development in Mouse Embryo
5. HTS of MicroRNA inhibitors to drug resistance in lung cancer
PREVIOUS PROJECT WORK& LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
2007 Spring-Summer UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), Vale Lab, "Chlamydomonas flagellar surface motility and its relation with IFT by a nanometer precision particle tracking technique", as a junior specialist
2006 Summer-2007 Spring UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), in Susan Fisher Lab, “Epigenetic mechanisms regulating stem cell differentiation in placenta; study of HIF interactions and histone modifications” as a visiting researcher
2006 Spring METU, in Severcan’s laboratory, “The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Rat Spleen Tissue: An FTIR Approach” as a special project student
2005 Summer Caltech (California Institute of Technology), in the Stathopoulos Laboratory, “Identification of transcription factors that recognize a specific site in ind enhancer affecting dorsoletaral patterning in early Drosophila embryo” as a SURF student
2005 Winter METU, in Akkaya’s Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, “Determination of the
Spring genes induced upon biotic and abiotic stresses and functional analysis” as an undergraduate researcher