Fall ’25 Department Seminars with Dr. Isin Tuna Sakallioglu
Title: Surface Matters: Interfacial Dynamics in Lithium-Ion and Solid-State Batteries
Speaker: Dr. Isin Tuna Sakallioglu
Date: 23/12/2025, Tuesday
Time: 12:30 (Turkiye Time)
Place: Departmental Seminar Room (SBZ-14)
Abstract:
In the era of big data science, the integration of advanced analytical technologies is fundamental to the advancement of precision medicine and personalized therapeutics. By leveraging high-throughput platforms such as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Mass Spectrometry (MS), and automated single-cell analysis tools, it is now possible to characterize complex cellular compositions, communication networks, and metabolic profiles with system-wide clarity.
This systems biology approach functions by simultaneously detecting proteins, small molecules, and transcripts. Through the application of chemo-metrics and biological network mapping, these diverse data sets are integrated to provide a comprehensive picture of cellular changes. A unified multi-omics framework, combining proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics, significantly enhances the efficiency and accuracy of identifying drug mechanisms of action (MoA).
The implementation of this integrated methodology addresses three critical pillars of modern systems biology:
- Expanding the detectable metabolome through the use of advanced sensitive, robust and high-throughput analytical platforms.
- Developing robust and efficient data acquisition methods to ensure high-fidelity measurements.
- Constructing unified consensus networks that facilitate the elimination of off-target perturbations and the identification of lethal protein targets.
Ultimately, this multi-omics strategy enables the construction of predictive models for therapeutic efficacy and drug-target interactions, providing a more complete, system-wide understanding of biological responses to medical intervention.
Short Biography of the Speaker:
Dr. Isin Tuna Sakallioglu earned her degree in Chemistry from Bilkent University in 2014 before joining the Atilla-Gokcumen laboratory at the University at Buffalo. Within the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, she specialized in mass spectrometry-based lipidomics to investigate the role of lipids in breast cancer cells. After completing her Master’s degree, she joined the Robert Powers research group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she led and contributed to integrated multi-omics projects involving MS based proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics. Her research spanned diverse areas—including alcoholic liver disease, Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation, drug mechanisms, breast cancer, and tuberculosis—to elucidate complex molecular pathways and disease progression. Currently, she serves as a Senior Application Engineer at Bruker in the Life Sciences and Mass Spectrometry department, where she designs and delivers advanced multi-omics training programs for pharmaceutical scientists to enhance team capabilities and instrument proficiency.