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Institutional Information: Faculty Of Arts And Sciences, Department Of Biology
WoS Research Areas: Natural Sciences (Sci), Life Sciences (Life), Molecular Biology & Genetics
Avesis Research Areas: Medicine, Basic Pharmaceutics Sciences, Professional Sciences, Pharmaceutics Technology, bioinformatics, Bioinstrumentation and Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Biomedical Image Processing, Biomedical Image Processing, Clinical Engineering, Telemedicine, Telemedicine, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Modelling, Biological Databases, Genetic Disorders, Genetic Engineering, Genomics, Animal Molecular Genetics, Moleculer Biology of Cancer, Microbial Genetics, Evolution, Computer Science, Game Theory, Health Sciences, Natural Sciences
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Publication

27

Citation (WoS)

1131

H-Index (WoS)

12

Citation (Scopus)

1183

H-Index (Scopus)

12

Project

9

Thesis Advisory

4

Open Access

9
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Biography

During my undergraduate studies, I visited Prof Robert A. Weinberg’s Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, US. as a summer student. After receiving my BSc degree, I won a competitive Cancer Research UK scholarship to enrol in a Ph.D. program at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, Manchester, UK, between 2008 and 2012. During my Ph.D., I focused on the evolution of cancer-associated fibroblasts in breast cancer mediated by crosstalk of signaling pathways namely Notch, TGFb, and SDF1. Following my Ph.D., I did a postdoc at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, University of Manchester (UoM) for 3 years. My research there focused on the crosstalk of Wnt and Notch signaling and how they regulate each other. Next, I moved to the Institute of Cancer Research in London for the next 4 years where I switched my focus to cancer evolution and genomics to understand the underlying mechanisms of treatment resistance by designing experimental model systems consisting of large Hyperflasks, single-cell barcoding, and patient-derived organoids. 

At the beginning of 2020, I moved to Turkey to start my own research group in Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (METU) as part of an International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers Program administrated by TUBITAK. In addition to my academic journey, I am the founder and CEO of a start-up called HistoCan at METU Teknopark since 2021.

Contact
Email
acara@metu.edu.tr
Web Page
https://acarlab-bio.metu.edu.tr
Office Phone
+90 312 210 6461
Office
120
Address
ODTU Biyolojik Bilimler Bolumu Üniversiteler Mahallesi Cankaya Ankara 06800