Münevver Burcu Cicekdal |
Phone: +32 (0) 933 21358
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Principal Investigator Projects
- Deciphering the role of human-Xenopus ultraconserved and highly conserved non-coding elements in developmental gene regulation and disease
- CRISPR/Cas9 mediated knock-out and functional assessment of a cis-regulatory element of ABCA4 in Xenopus tropicallis for Stargardt disease phenotype
- Inherited retinal dystrophies
- CRISPR/Cas9 functional genomics
- Non-coding genome and enhanceropathies
- Ultraconserved elements
- Developmental gene regulation
- Xenopus tropicalis as a disease model
- 2025-2028 FWO Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
- 2024-2025 Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Science, Ghent University, Belgium
- 2022-2024 PhD Fellow, Faculty of Science, Ghent University, Belgium
- 2019-2022 Early Stage Researcher (ESR), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (StarT, Grant No. 813490), Ghent University, Belgium
- 2024 GeneHOPE Grant ENHANCE-MCOR : Decoding the MCOR-related regulatory landscape implicated in a rare eye enhanceropathy and developing a preclinical Xenopus tropicalis model for MCOR-associated glaucoma (co-applicant)
- 2024 Travel Fellowship Award, XXVI Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Eye Research (ISER 2024, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Invited Speaker
- 2023 NeuroVision Prize 2023 Foundation JED (co-applicant)
- 2021 Best Poster Presentation Award 18th International Xenopus Conference
- 2022 ARVO travel grant
- 2020 FWO travel grant
- 2024 Doctor of Science in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Belgium
- 2018 Master of Science in Biotechnology, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Yeditepe University, Turkey
- 2016 Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science, Istanbul University, Turkey
- 2014 Erasmus Exchange Programme, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Joyful Honey Bee - Vrolijke honingbij |
The bee is a social insect. He works hard and is always busy. Bees have a clear division of tasks. A bee picks up things quickly by observing the elderly and learns by doing. He is altruistic. Whatever he does, it is always focused on the well-being of others. A bee is future-oriented.
Characteristics: altruistic, goal-oriented, social |