Research
2025
Our project titled as ‘Development of Conductive Bioink for the Fabrication of 3D Cardiac and Neural Tissue Models’ has been accepted for funding under TÜSEB A4 Project Support Program. Congrats to Elif Güner and Özüm Yıldırım Semerci for being a part of the project team as researchers and to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the supervisor!
Manuscript published!
Recent Advances in Hydrogel-Based 3D Disease Modeling and Drug Screening Platforms, has been published in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology.
Our project titled as ‘Improving the Angiogenic Potential of Hydrocolloid-Based Scaffolds Developed for Lung Tumor Modeling’ has been granted funding by TÜBİTAK-ARDEB under 1002 Support Program. Congrats to Özüm Yıldırım Semerci for being a part of the project team as coordinator and to Assoc. Prof. Dr Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the supervisor!
Manuscript published!
Exploring the Use of Water-Extracted Flaxseed Hydrocolloids in Three-Dimensional Cell Culture, has been published in Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods.
Manuscript published!
Development of Mg-Alginate Based Self Disassociative Bio-Ink for Magnetic Bio-Patterning of 3D Tumor Models, has been published in Macromolecular Bioscience.
Rümeysa Bilginer Kartal successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congrats!
2024
Manuscript published!
Near‐Infrared Emissive Super Penetrating Conjugated Polymer Dots for Intratumoral Imaging in 3D Tumor Spheroid Models, has been published in Advanced Science.
Biomimetics Group’s project titled as ‘Development of a Hydrocolloid and Bioglass-Based Bioactive Tissue Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering’ has been accepted for funding under TÜSEB A4 Project Support Program. Congrats to Hilal Deniz Yılmaz Dağdeviren for being a part of the project team as researcher and to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the supervisor!
Manuscript published!
Hydrocolloids for tissue engineering and 3D bioprinting, has been published Innovation and Emerging Technologies.
July, 2024- N. Arda Pişirici successfully defended his MSc thesis. Congrats!
Manuscript published!
Origami-inspired microfluidic paper-based analytical device (μPAD) for microorganism detection, has been published in Emergent Materials.
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Protein quantification via LSPR-based biosensor platform utilizing chrono-growth for enhanced sensitivity, has been published in Materials Letters.
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Engineering free-standing electrospun PLLCL fibers on microfluidic platform for cell alignment, has been published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.
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Arabinoxylan-based psyllium seed hydrocolloid: Single-step aqueous extraction and use in tissue engineering, has been published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
May, 2024- Alper Baran Sözmen successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats!
Manuscript published!
Fabrication of gelatin-polyester based biocomposite scaffold via one-step functionalization of melt electrowritten polymer blends in aqueous phase, has been published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
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Utilizing Magnetic Levitation to Detect Lung Cancer-Associated Exosomes, has been published in ACS Sensors.
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Exploring Neuronal Differentiation Profiles in SH-SY5Y Cells through Magnetic Levitation Analysis, has been published in ACS Omega.
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Development of chrono-spectral gold nanoparticle growth based plasmonic biosensor platform, has been published in Biosensor and Bioelectronics: X.
2023
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Biopatterning of 3D Cellular Model by Contactless Magnetic Manipulation for Cardiotoxicity Screening, has been published in Tissue Engineering Part A.
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The Soft Nano Dots as Fluorescent Probes for Cell Imaging: Analysis of Cell and Spheroid Penetration Behavior of Single Chain Polymer Dots, has been published in Macromolecular Bioscience.
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Fabrication and development of a microfluidic paper-based immunosorbent assay platform (μPISA) for colorimetric detection of hepatitis C, has been published in Analyst.
3 papers were presented at the 5th Euroasia Biochemical Approaches & Technologies – EBAT in November. Congrats to the team!
1 paper was presented at the BIO Türkiye International Biotechnology Congress 2023 in September. Congrats to the team!
4 papers were presented at the 17th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference in August. Hilal Yılmaz Dağdeviren was awarded the 2nd place in the Best Poster Presentation category. Congrats to the team!
3 papers were presented at the 47th FEBS Congress in July. Congrats to the team!
March, 2023- Zeynep Altan successfully defended her MSc thesis. Congrats!
2022
Dec, 2022- Rabia Önbaş successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congrats!
Nov, 2022- Duygu Arslantaş successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congrats!
Manuscript published!
Development of a hydrocolloid bio-ink for 3D bioprinting, has been published in Biomaterials Science
3 studies were presented at the 5th Congress on Biosensors on 21-23 September 2022 in Çanakkale/Turkey.
Manuscript published!
Sensitive and rapid protein assay via magnetic levitation, has been published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics:X.
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Cost-effective and rapid prototyping of PMMA microfluidic device via polymer-assisted bonding has been published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.
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Electrospun GelMA fibers and p (HEMA) matrix composite for corneal tissue engineering, has been published in Materials Science and Engineering: C.
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Fabrication of Tunable 3D Cellular Structures in High Volume Using Magnetic Levitation Guided Assembly, has been published in ACS Appl. Bio Mater.
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Biocomposite scaffolds for 3D cell culture: Propolis enriched polyvinyl alcohol nanofibers favoring cell adhesion, has been published in Journal of Applied Polymer Science.