Fatih Kocabaş

Moleküler Biyolog ve Genetikçi (PhD Candidate)

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FATIH KOCABAS

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fatih@caltech.edu

www.fatihkocabas.net

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of birth :

Place of birth : Ankara/Turkey

Nationality : Turkish

Marital Status : Married

Gender : Male

 

EDUCATION

 

2002- 2006 (expected) Middle East Technical University (METU), TURKEY

Faculty of Art and Sciences B.S. in Molecular Biology & Genetics Department Current CGPA:3.19/4.00

2001-2002 English Preparatory School

1998-2001 Kirikkale High School of Science, Turkey

 

PROJECT WORK (Calistiginiz projeler sizin kabul almanizda cok yardimci olur, sizin tecrubeli oldugunuzu goserir)

Summer 2005 Caltech (California Institute of Technology), in the Stathopoulos Laboratory, “Identification of transcription factors that recognize a specific site in ind enhancer affecting dorsaletaral patterning in early Drosophila embryo”

Spring 2004 METU (Middle East Technical University), in Akkaya’s Laboratory, “Determination of the genes induced upon biotic and abiotic stresses and functional analysis” together with research assistants Turgay Ünver and Osman Bozkurt

 

LABORATORY EXPERIENCE (Laboratuvar tecrubeleriniz kabul almanizda cok yardimci olacaktir, bunlari yazmayi unutmayiniz)

2006 Spring-present Special project student in Dr. Feride Severcan’s laboratory,Department of Biological Sciences, METU

2005 June-September Undergraduate Researcher in Dr. Angelike Stathopoulos's laboratory at Division of Biology, Caltech, USA

2004-2006 December Undergraduate Researcher in Dr. Mahinur AKKAYA’s laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetics, METU

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS (Ilginizi ceken konulari, calismak arzu ettiginiz konulari buraya yazabilirsiniz)

Developmental Biology, Embryology and Stem cells, Signal Transduction and RNAi, Biotechnology, Cell Resistance Factors, Nanobacteria, Viruses

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS (Buraya laboratuvarlarda yaptiginiz, ogrendiginiz teknikleri yazabilirsiniz)

Molecular Biology Methods, learned and used: Classical molecular biology techniques, cloning, plasmid DNA isolation (mini and midi-prep), agarose gel electrophoresis, bacterial transformation with plasmid DNA, human genomic DNA isolation, restriction enzyme digestion & southern transfer, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), total RNA isolation from human blood cells & cancer cells and plant cells, reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), probe preparation from cDNA, RFLP, SDS PAGE, thin layer chromatography, coulum chromatography, DNA hybridization, electroporation of bacteria, DNA extraction from animal tissue, DNA precipitation with Ethanol

 

One-Hybrid screens:Yeast growth, SD plate preparations, prepare competent yeast cells, yeast transformations (LiAc method; large and small scale), plate transformants on SD minimal plates containing different concentrations of 3-AT to determine the optimum concentration needed to suppress background growth, yeast plasmid isolations (miniprep), integration of gene into genome of yeast, selection on selective media, LacZ expression, B-Galactosidase assay on yeast colonies, yeast cotransformation, spectroscopy of culture, electroporation of yeast miniprep, all kind of solution preparations necessary for yeast protocols

 

Collection and fixation of Drosophila embryos for in situ hybridization, construction of a DNA Reporter Vector Consisting of one or more tandem copies of the target element

 

Generation of a cDNA Library: Total RNA isolation from early embryo of Drosophila, synthesis of first-strand cDNA, amplification of ds cDNA by LD-PCR (Long Distance PCR), purification of ds cDNA using BD CHROMO SPIN columns, construction of an AD fusion library, library Construction [one-step] by cotransformation

 

Animal Cell Culture Techniques: Aseptic study, suspension cultures, passages, monolayer cell culture, freezing and thawing of cells, cell isolations from blood, cell culture medium preparation and use of serum, use of inverted microscope, viable cell counting by hemacytometer, use of CO2 incubators, cloning and selection of specific cell types, treatment of surfaces (fibronectin), use of laminar flow

hoods, primary culture preparations, isolation of lymphocytes from human peripheral blood, subculture of suspension cell lines, subculture of adherent cell lines, cryopreservation of cell lines

 

LANGUAGES & GENERAL TESTS (Aldiginiz TOEFL GRE gibi testler varsa onlari da buraya yazabilirsiniz)

TURKISH (Native speaker) & ENGLISH (Advanced level)

Oct 11, 2005

 

TOEFL(CBT): 240/300

Listening : 23

Structure : 24

Reading : 25

Writing : 4.0

Nov 21, 2005

 

GRE(CBT) : General

Quantitative : 790(90%)

Verbal : 300

Analytical W.: 3.0

Nov 12, 2005

 

GRE: Biochemistry

580 (71% Below)

Biochem.: 68 (93%)

Cell Bio. : 47 (31%)

Mol. Bio. : 55 (61%)

 

COMPUTER SKILLS & COMPUTING KNOWLEDGE (Bilgisayar bilgilerinizi de ilave edebilirsiniz)

Course Attended C PROGRAMING

Software Minitab (Biostatistics Software)

Introduction to PHYLIP programs

Internet Tools Web designing & publishing

 

COURSE WORK: (Burada aldiginiz dersleri listelemeniz Genetik ve biyoloji ile ne kadar ilgili ders aldiginizi gostermesi acisindan onemli)

Experimental Techniques in Molecular Biology, General and Molecular Genetics & Lab, Animal Cell Culture Techniques & Lab, Molecular & Cellular Biology I & II, Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Molecular Biology of the Gene & Cell, Developmental Biology, Introduction to Biometry, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Plant Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry I-II and Lab, Microbiology Laboratory, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Recombinant DNA Techniques, Student Seminar in Mol. Biol. & Genetics, Molecular pharmacology, Biophysics, Instrumental Methods in Biology, Cell Cycle and Its Regulation, Special project

 

FELLOWSHIP (Herhangi akademik bir bursunuz varsa onu da buraya ilave edebilirsiniz)

2005 Summer SURF award (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship), Caltech, USA

1995-2001 Turkish Government Scholarship for Secondary School & High School

 

DISTINCTIONS

May 2004-Present Advanced reading ability, high reading speed

June 2001 Student Selecting Exam for Universities of Turkey; 221.5 point over 227.0 (in 0.7% of all)

2000-2001 Director of Student Representative Committee of Kirikkale High School of Science

 

LEISURE ACTIVITIES

Playing strategy games, Reading books and journals, Learning a kind of local musical instrument; Saz, Designing web page (own web page), Voluntary interpreter in international activities in my home town

 

REFERENCES

Professor Dr. ABC

Division of Biology,

Caltech-USA

abc@caltech.edu

Professor Dr. ABC

Department of Simya,

METU-TURKEY

abc@metu.edu.tr

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