Zoology Program
Our mission as Zoology Program is to train qualified biologists who are experts in their fields and capable of conducting researches on subjects such as health, environment and biodiversity, and also who are aware of their ethical responsibility to living things, and who have master's and doctorate degrees.
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Prof. Dr. Cihan DEMİRCİ TANSEL
Cihan DEMIRCI TANSEL is a professor in Zoology Division of Biology Department at Istanbul University, where she obtained a BSC degree in Biology. She earned her PhD at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering from Istanbul University.Her main research areas involve animal physiology, cell physiology, cardiovascular physiology, nitric oxide and sepsis, and her researches focus on acute kidney injury, inflammatory processes, oxidative stress, and renin-angiotensin system in experimental animal models.
AVESİS Link: https://avesis.istanbul.edu.tr/cihan
Kadriye AKGUN DAR is a Professor in Zoology Division of Biology Department at Istanbul University. She obtained her BSc from Istanbul University. She attended to Istanbul University, Institute of Sciences, Cell Biology for her PhD. Her research interests have involved Animal Physiology, Cell Biology, Endocrinology, Neurosciences and Physiology.
AVESİS Link: https://avesis.istanbul.edu.tr/kakgun
Prof.Dr. Uğur AKSU
Uğur AKSU is a Professor in Zoology Division of Biology Department at Istanbul University. He obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD in Istanbul University and second PhD in Amsterdam University. His research perspective is about tissue perfusion, oxygenation and microcirculatory changes, ischemia-reperfusion phenomenon in various animal models and clinical conditions and he has special interests on patient bedside monitoring devices and innovation issues.
Ebru GUREL GUREVIN is an associate professorin Zoology Division of Biology Department at Istanbul University, where she obtained a BSC degree in Biology. She earned her PhD at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering from Istanbul Universityand worked as a visiting scientist in Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her main research areas involve animal physiology, cell physiology, cardiovascular physiology, and diabetes with focus onnitric oxide, the effects of various endogenous and exogenous agents against acute and/or chronic ischemia/reperfusion injury in Langendorffisolated heart system, the effects of various substances (drugs, plant extracts, hormones, metabolites, food and food additives, nanoparticles, etc.) in Ehrlich ascites tumor model.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin AYDIN
Yasemin Aydın is an Associate Professor in Zoology Division of Biology Department at Istanbul University. She obtained her first degree, BSc, in Istanbul University and attended to Istanbul University, Institute of Sciences, Zoology for her PhD. Her main research areas include the development of reproductive system in various animals, how environmental factors affect the development and reproductive cells of animals, reproductive toxicology, developmental toxicology, and genetic toxicology research.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Fatih DİKMEN
Fatih DIKMEN is an Assistant Professor in Zoology Division of Biology Department at Istanbul University. He obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Hacettepe University, Ankara. His main research interests include the biology and taxonomy of pollinator bees and their roles in agriculture, insect biodiversity, the molecular mechanism olfaction of insect antennae, geometric morphometrics and molecular taxonomy in systematic zoological studies.
Aslı Kandil is an assistant professor in Zoology Division of Biology Department at Istanbul University. She obtained her BSc degree in Biology Department at Istanbul University. She received her PhD degree at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering from Istanbul University. Her main research areas include animal physiology, cell physiology and cardiovascular physiology, and her researches focus on (patho)physiological researches related to acute kidney injury, inflammatory processes, oxidative stress, and renin-angiotensin system in experimental animal models.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Vahap ELDEM
Vahap ELDEM is an assistant professor in Zoology Division of Biology Department at Istanbul University. He has obtained his PhD from the Istanbul University and worked as a visiting scientist in Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), China. Our lab uses a combination of Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and Third-generation long-range sequencing approaches as well as state-of-art bioinformatics/statistics tools to study evolutionary processes at the sequence, genomic and transcriptomic levels. Examples of areas in focus for our research include comparative genomics approaches to study the speciation process, genetics of adaptation and patterns of genome evolution, primarily using fishes and insects. Besides, recently, one branch of our lab focuses on the computational analysis of human disease-associated genes, genome polymorphism and population genetics using whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing as well as other state-of-art experimental procedures.
