Team:Bilkent-UNAMBG/Attributions

General Support

Thanks to our PI Assoc. Prof. Dr. Urartu Özgür Şafak Şeker who let us use his lab for our experiments. We are so grateful that he has introduced us to the world of synthetic biology and provided the opportunity of being a member of Bilkent UNAMBG iGEM team.

Thanks to our secondary PI Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ali Osmay Güre who is also the Chairman of Molecular Biology and Genetics Department in Bilkent University, for adjusting our budget.

Project Support and Advice

Thanks to Prof. Dr. Okan Bülent Yıldız, from the Department of Internal Medicine Endocrinology and Metabolism of Hacettepe University for contributing our knowledge of diabetes mellitus and for his advisory while developing the idea of designing a probiotic insulin.

Thanks to our advisor PhD Student Recep Erdem Ahan for providing us day-to-day support in the lab. He also coordinated our team and enlightened us with his experience and immense knowledge.

Thanks to our advisor PhD Student Ebru Şahin Kehribar. She has coordinated our team and also provided us with so much help in and out of the lab. Her assistance with the protocols and project ideas were more than helpful.

Project Support and Advice

Thanks to Prof. Dr. Okan Bülent Yıldız, from the Department of Internal Medicine Endocrinology and Metabolism of Hacettepe University for contributing our knowledge of diabetes mellitus and for his advisory while developing the idea of designing a probiotic insulin.

Thanks to our advisor PhD Student Recep Erdem Ahan for providing us day-to-day support in the lab. He also coordinated our team and enlightened us with his experience and immense knowledge.

Thanks to our advisor PhD Student Ebru Şahin Kehribar. She has coordinated our team and also provided us with so much help in and out of the lab. Her assistance with the protocols and project ideas were more than helpful.

Lab Support

Thanks to PhD Student Behide Saltepe, who helped us for our qPCR experiments. Thanks to MSc student Zafer Koşar, who provided us with lab assistance daily. Thanks to PhD Student Nedim Hacıosmanoğlu, who motivated and helped us in and out of the lab.

Fundraising

We are so grateful that Prof. Dr. Hilmi Volkan Demir, who is the director of UNAM, for his huge financial support on our flight expenses.

Thanks to Hakan Korkmaz, the CEO of the Traveo company, for his huge financial support for our accommodation costs.

Thanks to Atıf Tokar who is the chairman of the Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities Foundation for his generous financial support.

Human Practices

Thanks to Prof. Dr. Okan Bülent Yıldız, for giving us a chance to interview with diabetic patients face to face and attend patient trainings.

Our team members İlayda Şenyüz and Merve Nida Baştürk wrote a short storybook for kids and Deniz Çayırtepe made the illustrations. Thanks to our team member Mehmet Emin Bakar, for designing an interactive quiet book on synthetic biology for preschool kids.

Wiki

Thanks to Baturalp Uyar, who is a third year computer engineering student at Gazi University, for sparing his time for designing our wiki page.

Thanks to Uğur Taha Kuran, for his creative and impressive animation.

Thanks to Mete Duman, who is the graphic designer of UNAM, for his support on web page design.

Thanks to our team members Doğuş Akboğa and Ali Göktuğ Attar for their contributions to building our wiki.

Modelling

Thanks to our team member Ahmet Hınçer for his precious work on our modelling.

Collaboration

Our team member Elif Zeynep Gülcü coordinated our collaborations.

Wet Lab

Thanks to all of our team members and advisors for their works in the lab.

Team, Project Logo and Banner Design

Thanks to our team member Ali Göktuğ Attar for designing our logos.