Spring ’23 Department Seminars with Dr. Petra Ménová

Spring ’23 Department Seminars with Dr. Petra Ménová Title: Drug-like ligands for DC-SIGN receptor Speaker: Dr. Petra Ménová Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic Date: March 30, 2023, Thursday Time: 12:30 TRT, 11:30 CET Place: Zoom Abstract: Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that play important roles in cell-cell recognition, cell […]

Virtual Open House for Graduate Students on March 25

Virtual Open House for Graduate Students on March 25 Are you interested in finding out more about graduate studies at Bilkent University? Then, join us for Bilkent University’s Graduate School of Science and Engineering Virtual Open House on Saturday, March 25th! This year’s compact schedule covers what attendees are looking for: featuring a chance to […]

Fall ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Sündüs Erbaş Çakmak

Fall ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Sündüs Erbaş Çakmak Title: Fine Molecular Engineering to Build Information Processing Therapeutic Agents Speaker: Dr. Sündüs Erbaş Çakmak Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Necmeddin Erbakan University, Konya, Türkiye Date: Dec 27th, 2022, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Departmental Seminar Room (SB-Z14) Abstract: Personalised therapeutic approaches require fine molecular engineering […]

Baytekin Research Group Publishes on the Cover of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Baytekin Research Group Publishes on the Cover of ACS Applied Materials & Interface Recent research of Baytekin Research Group, led by Assoc. Prof. Bilge Baytekin, featured on the cover page of ACS Applied Materials & Interface, a leading journal on materials science and published by the American Chemical Society. In their recent work, Baytekin Research […]

Two Faculty Members Awarded 2566 TUBITAK-NSFC Bilateral Research Grant

Two Faculty Members Awarded 2566 TUBITAK-NSFC Bilateral Research Grant The most intense interest in bilateral cooperation was to the call for 2566 between China National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and TUBITAK. As a result, 2 of our projects were funded. Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Emrah Özensoy and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ferdi Karadaş. For […]

Karadas Research Group’s Work Appears on the Cover of Chemical Communications

Karadas Research Group’s Work Appears on the Cover of Chemical Communications Recent studies of Karadas Research Group, led by Assoc. Prof. Ferdi Karadas, featured on the cover page of Chemical Communications, a leading journal on chemistry, materials science, and their interdisciplinary domains published by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry. In their recent work, […]

Emrah Ozensoy Wins Sedat Simavi Science Award

Emrah Ozensoy Wins Sedat Simavi Science Award Prof. Emrah Özensoy, chair of the Department of Chemistry, has won the 2022 Sedat Simavi Foundation Science Award for his work “Unraveling Molecular Fingerprints of Catalytic Sulfur Poisoning at the Nanometer Scale with Near-Field Infrared Spectroscopy”, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society which is the […]

Yunus Turkmen Awarded 2022 TUBA-GEBIP Award

Yunus Turkmen Awarded 2022 TUBA-GEBIP Award One of the researchers who earned this year’s Outstanding Young Scientist Awards from the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) for his work on organic chemistry is Assistant Professor Yunus Emre Turkmen from the Department of Chemistry at Bilkent University. To honor and encourage young, exceptional researchers working in the […]

Fall ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Zeynep Çulfaz Emecen

Fall ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Zeynep Çulfaz Emecen Title: Expanding the Scope of Membrane Separations: From separations in organic solvents to fine-tuning membrane properties Speaker: Dr. Zeynep Çulfaz Emecen Department of Chemical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye Date: Dec 13th, 2022, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Departmental Seminar Room (SB-Z14) Abstract: Membrane-based separation processes […]

Fall ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Gülcihan Gülseren

Fall ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Gülcihan Gülseren Title: Bioinspired Nanocatalysts for Medical Applications Speaker: Dr. Gülcihan Gülseren Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Konya, Türkiye Date: Nov 29th, 2022, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: The design of catalysts with greater control over catalytic activity and stability is a […]