NOVEMBER 2024

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• Ataollah Nosratinia passed his qualifying exam. Congratulations Ata!

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OCTOBER 2024

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• Ataollah Nosratinia has joined BvK LaB as a PhD student

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SEPTEMBER 2024

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• Our book chapter titled "Tissue, serum, and saliva sampling for proteomic analysis" is now online! Check it out

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AUGUST 2024

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• Publication alert! Our paper titled "The crystal structure of Shethna protein II (FeSII) from Azotobacter vinelandii suggests a domain swap" has been published in Acta Cryst. D Check it out!

• Our new interns Emine, Bünyamin and Hossein have joined BvK LaB.

 

MAY 2024

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• Dr. Kabasakal gave a talk at 5th National Crystallography Meeting, held in Samsun on 17-19 May 2024, and received the Best Talk Award! Thanks to the organizing committee!

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APRIL 2024

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• Gizem Demirci has joined BvK LaB as an MSc student

• Publication alert! Our collaborative study with Q-OmicS Lab has been published: "Structural proteomics of a bacterial mega membrane protein complex". It is the first structural proteomics study of Türkiye! 

 

MARCH 2024

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• Publication alert! Our book chapter titled "Sample Preparation for Electron Cryo-Microscopy of Macromolecular Machines" has been published. Check it out!

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FEBRUARY 2024

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• BvK LaB's new stars! Sedef Sucu and Mustafa Buğra Aydın have joined BvK LaB as TÜBİTAK STAR undergraduate research interns

 

JANUARY 2024

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• Preprint alert! The crystal structure of the Shetha Protein II (FeSII) from Azotobacter vinelandii suggests a domain swap

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DECEMBER 2023

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• BvK LaB's first PhD graduand! Günce has successfully defended her PhD thesis! We wish Dr. Günce Göç best in future career

• BvK LaB's new year party was held at our graduate student office. We wish everyone a happy, healhy and productive 2024!

• Dr. Kabasakal gave a talk at Gazi University Department of Pharmacy. Many thanks to Gazi Biyozeka Student Community for the invitation!

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NOVEMBER 2023

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• Nurefşan Kuzucu has joined BvK LaB as an MSc student

• Paper alert! Dynamic lid domain of Chloroflexus aurantiacus Malonyl-CoA reductase controls the reaction is now online at Biochimie

• We were at Valencia, Spain for FunTomP project meeting, and 37th International EFFoST Conference.

 

SEPTEMBER 2023

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• 4-8 September 2023 EMBO Lecture Course in Istanbul "Structural Biophysics of Biomolecular Complexes" with guest speakers and participants from all around the world, has been very successful. Many thanks to all who contributed!

 

AUGUST 2023

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• BvK LaB's first graduand! Hatice Akkulak has successfully defended her MSc thesis! We wish her best in future career

• Grant alert! We have received another grant within TÜBİTAK 2516 Korea Bilateral Cooperation Program, in a collaboration with Seoul National University

 

JULY 2023

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• Grant alert! We have received a TÜBİTAK ARDEB 1001 grant to study photochemistry of nitrogen fixation enzymes, with Prof. Gül Yağlıoğlu from Ankara University 

• Esra Kartal has joined BvK LaB as an undergraduate research intern

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MAY 2023

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• Grant alert! We have received a TÜBİTAK 1004 grant, coordinated by Erciyes University, to conduct three research projects in a collaboration with Q-Omics Lab and Öztop Lab from METU for the next four years

 

APRIL 2023

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• Grant alert! We have received a TÜBİTAK 3501 grant to study structure and function of nitrogen fixation proteins for the next two years

• III. National Structural Biology Workshop will be held on 24-25 April 2023 in Istanbul! Check out our flyer!

 

MARCH 2023

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• Our preprint titled "Dynamic lid domain of Chloroflexus aurantiacus Malonyl-CoA Reductase controls the reaction" is now online! 

 

FEBRUARY 2023

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• Our preprint titled "Cryogenic X-ray crystallographic studies of biomacromolecules at Turkish Light Source "Turkish DeLight"" has been published at Turkish Journal of Biology!

 

JANUARY 2023

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• Büşra Karakaya has joined BvK LaB as an undergraduate research intern

• Mehmet's TÜBİTAK 1002 Short Term Funding Project has been funded! Congratulations! Wish him best of success in his project. 

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DECEMBER 2022

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• BvK LaB and Q-OmicS Lab had a joint new year lunch with Dr. Mecit Öztop's companion at Öztop Lab, METU. We wish everyone a happy and healthy new year!

• We visited DESY PETRA III BioSAXS Beamline P12 at EMBL Hamburg, Germany to do exciting SAXS experiments

 

OCTOBER 2022

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• BvK LaB presented a poster titled "Comparison of XL-MS Software to Identify Protein Interactions" in a collaboration with QOmicS Lab  at HIBIT 22 Conference, held in Mersin, Türkiye on 20-22 October 2022. Congratulations to Hatice and Kerim!

• New Paper: Rapid and High Resolution Ambient Temperature Structure Determination at Turkish Light Source at BioRxiv

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SEPTEMBER 2022

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• New Paper: "Cryogenic X-ray crystallographic studies of biomacromolecules at Turkish Light Source “Turkish DeLight” at BioRxiv

• Burak V Kabasakal gave a virtual talk titled "Basic and Integrative Approaches for Structural Studies of Biological Macromolecules" at Florida Atlantic University Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

• BvK LaB's new star! Hayri Kerim İnce has joined BvK LaB as a TÜBİTAK STAR undergraduate research intern

 

AUGUST 2022

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• BvK LaB Retreat 22 - Lake Eymir visit

• BvK LaB presented a poster titled "Insights into protein quality control: YccA and its interaction wtih FtsH" and oral talk titled "Waste into wealth: Green Proteome" in collaboration with Öztop Lab and QOmicS Lab  

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JULY 2022

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• BvK LaB's new star! Sevginaz Kaya has joined BvK LaB as a TÜBİTAK STAR undergraduate research intern

• BvK LaB and QOmicS Lab visited Karaca Lab at İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center to talk about a collaborative project. 

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JUNE 2022

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• BvK LaB attended the first project board meeting of FunTomP project, held in Ege University, Izmir on 29-30 June 2022. Tugberk from our lab presented the preliminary results 

 

APRIL 2022
 

• Tuğberk Deniz Karakaş has joined BvK LaB as an MSc student 

 

MARCH 2022
 

• BvK LaB presented a poster titled "Structural insights into protein quality control using cross linking mass spectrometry" at ACS Spring 2022 Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA

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FEBRUARY 2022
 

• BvK LaB's new star! Sıla Akdoğan has joined BvK LaB as a TÜBİTAK STAR undergraduate research intern 

 

JANUARY 2022
 

• BvK LaB and Q-OmicS Lab had a joint new year lunch. Happy new year!