All events for the Kerman Lab
Zeynep will defend her Master’s thesis on Friday. She did a great job in cloning and producing lentiviruses for imaging oligodendrocyte and neuron interactions. Good luck!
Due to the pandemic restrictions the presentation will be online. let me know if you would like to join.
Burcu will have her first PhD thesis committee meeting. She will talk about our recent data on MS patients.
In the light of the Turkish Government’s cancellation of classes and meetings in the universities, we will not have our weekly lab meetings or journal clubs. The date for restarting the meetings will be evaluated according to the developments of the Covid-19 threat.
In the meantime, wash your hands, stay away from crowds, and be safe!
Ilayda will present the journal club this week. Paper TBA.
Tuba will present her data on tracking the vesicle during myelination.
Note the change of the date. Lab meetings are moved to Mondays due to change in lecture schedule changes.
Emre will present the journal club this week.
Paper TBA.
Kubra will present the journal club this week.
Paper TBA.
Burcu will present the journal club this week.
Paper TBD.
On this first lab meeting of 2020, Zeynep will present her data on oligodendrocyte-neuron contact sites.
Ilayda will practice her presentation for the upcoming Thesis Committee meeting.
Tuba will describe her progress on her thesis research. So no lab meeting this week.
This week, Tuba will present the journal club
Emre will lead the discussion on staining for and analysing the data from flow cytometry experiments
This week Burcu will present her research on HRP3.
Note that with the new academic year the lab meetings will be on Thursdays at 13:00.
Katarina who is doing her secondment as a part of AUTOIGG project will update us on her progress in our lab.
Note the change in date to Wednesday.
Kubra will present her proposed project to us.
Note the time change to 13:30
This week there won’t be a lab meeting as we attend the MolBioKon2019. Zeynep will be presenting her poster on Friday 27th between 13:45 and 15:15. Come and see her poster.
This week Zeynep will present the journal club. Paper TBA.
This week Ilayda will present the journal club. Paper TBA.
August 30 is the Victory Day for Turkey. We celebrate the victory at the Independence War that lead to today’s modern Turkey.
This week Tuba will present her research on oligodendrocyte cellular trafficking.
This week Emre will present the journal club. Paper TBA.
Katarina, who is our guest on her secondment via the Automated Functional Screening of IgGs for Diagnostics of Neurodegenerative Diseases (AUTOIGG, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 Proj. No. 778405) project, will present her research to us.
This week Burcu will present the journal club. Paper TBA.
Zeynep will present her work on monitoring contact between oligodendrocytes and neurons.
Note the date change to Fridays.
This week Kubra will present the following paper: ” A 3D human triculture system modeling neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease” by Park et al. Nature Neuroscience 21, 941–951 (2018).
Ilayda will present new findings from the interactome analysis
This week’s journal club will be presented by Tuba.
The paper being discussed: Aging restricts the ability of mesenchymal stem cells to promote the generation of oligodendrocytes during remyelination. Glia. 2019 Apr 30. doi: 10.1002/glia.23624.
Bilal will recap the progress in the lab.
May 1st is the International Workers’ Day and is celebrated as a holiday in Turkey as well as many other countries.
Emre will talk about latest results from cell sorting.
This week’s journal club will be presented by Burcu.
The paper being discussed: TBA.
Kubra will present her plans for her thesis project which will combine wet lab work with bioinformatics.
Due to grant application deadline, Kubra’s lab meeting is postponed to next week.
This week’s journal club will be presented by Zeynep
The paper being discussed: TBA.
This week’s journal club will be presented by Ilayda.
The paper being discussed: TBA.
Tuba will present her progress on vesicle trafficking.
This week’s journal club will be presented by Emre.
The paper being discussed: TBA.
Burcu will present her progress during her secondment in Belgrade.
Nothe the day change! From now on, lab meetings and journal clubs will be on Wednesdays at 14:00.
This week’s journal club will be presented by Kubra.
The paper being discussed: “PRMT5-mediated regulation of developmental myelination” Nat Commun. 2018 Jul 19;9(1):2840. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04863-9.
Dr. Andrej Korenic, who is visiting us from the Department of Biology at the University of Belgrade on his secondment via the Automated Functional Screening of IgGs for Diagnostics of Neurodegenerative Diseases (AUTOIGG, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 Proj. No. 778405) project, will present his research to us.
NOTE THE TIME CHANGE TO 10:00
This week’s lab meeting is postponed due to the exams week.
Best of luck to all students!
Zeynep will present her work on cloning.
Prof. Lidija Radenović, who is visiting us from the Department of Biology at the University of Belgrade on her secondment via the Automated Functional Screening of IgGs for Diagnostics of Neurodegenerative Diseases (AUTOIGG, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 Proj. No. 778405) project, will present her research to us.
We will wrap up the year with a discussion of 2018. How did we progress? Any stumbling points? What is waiting for us in 2019?
Season’s greetings! Happy new year!
This week’s journal club will be presented by Tuba.
The paper being discussed is: TBA
Nese will present her progress and experience during her secondment to FBUB as a part of the Automated Functional Screening of IgGs for Diagnostics of Neurodegenerative Diseases (AUTOIGG, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 Proj. No. 778405) project.
Esref is defending his Master thesis titled “Myelin Interactome: Identification of Cell-Cell Interactions in Multiple Sclerosis with Binary Graf Based Protein-Protein Interaction Networks” All are welcome.
As we welcome Lidija to our lab, we will share a wrap-up of the ongoing progress in the lab.
Bilal will be at the Turkish Academy of Sciences yearly meeting for the recipients of the Young Investigator Award.
This week’s journal club will be presented by Muhammet.
The paper being discussed is: “Regulatory role of oligodendrocyte gap junctions in inflammatory demyelination”
Ilayda will talk about recent MS patient data and interactome analysis.
This week’s lab meeting will be a wrap-up of the ongoing progress in the lab.
Eşref will present a draft of his thesis on myelin interactome.
Note the time change to 2pm for this and all the following lab meetings
Emre will explain the inner workings of the FACS and how we can incorporate it more to our research. Note the time change to 1pm.
Due to the flu season the lab meeting is posponed!
Emre will explain the inner workings of the FACS and how we can incorporate it more to our research.
There won’t be a lab meeting this week because Bilal will be at the International School of Medicine 7th committee exam.
This week’s journal club will be presented by Zeynep.
The paper being discussed is: “Hyaluronan blocks oligodendrocyte progenitor maturation and remyelination through TLR2”
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jun 22;107(25):11555-60. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1006496107
Bilal is proud to be a presenter at the Prof. Dr. Mustafa Karaman Biomedical Image Processing Workshop organized by Istanbul Technical University Information Institute. He will be talking about machine learning in myelin quantification.
Research update presented by Burcu. Her last lab meeting before she leaves for Belgrade.
Research update presented by Tuba
Research update presented by Ilayda
This week there will be no lab meeting as Bilal will be attending the thesis defense of Deniz Ugurlu at the Koc University.
We will be attending Nazli‘s thesis defense so there won’t be a lab meeting. Congratulations to Nazli!
Biweekly journal club presented by Bilal. Note the time change!
The paper being discussed is:
“Ephrin‐A1‐EphA4 signaling negatively regulates myelination in the central nervous system”
Glia. 2018 May;66(5):934-950. doi: 10.1002/glia.23293. Epub 2018 Jan 19.
Bilal is back from secondment. Meetings will restart with a general catching up meeting. Everyone will present their research updates and Bilal will share his experience in University of Belgrade.
There will be no lab meetings and journal clubs during Bilal’s secondment at the University of Belgrade. They will restart after in August. The secondment is a part of the AUTOIGG project.
Biweekly journal club presented by Bilal. Note the time change!
The paper being discussed is:
“Biochemically altered myelin triggers autoimmune demyelination”
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 May 4. pii: 201721115. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1721115115.
Nese will bring us all up to speed on AUTOIGG.
This week, everyone will present their research updates in order to bring us all up to speed.
Biweekly journal club presented by Burcu.
The paper being discussed is:
“Lineage tracing reveals dynamic changes in oligodendrocyte precursor cells following cuprizone-induced demyelination”
Glia. 2017 Dec;65(12):2087-2098. doi: 10.1002/glia.23229.
Note the time change for this week.
Biweekly research update presented by Tuba
Biweekly journal club presented by Ilayda
The paper being discussed is:
“Sox2 expression in Schwann cells inhibits myelination in vivo
and induces influx of macrophages to the nerve”
Development. 2017 Sep 1;144(17):3114-3125. doi: 10.1242/dev.150656.
Biweekly research update presented by Burcu
Seminar on Parkinson Disease by Istanbul Medipol University
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Biweekly journal club presented by Zeynep
The paper being discussed is:
“LINGO-1 Regulates Oligodendrocyte Differentiation through
the Cytoplasmic Gelsolin Signaling Pathway”
The Journal of Neuroscience, March 22, 2017 • 37(12):3127–3137 • 3127
Department Seminar – Presenter: Bilal Kerman
