Deniz Yücel

Biography

Assist. Prof. Dr. Deniz Yucel graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Biological Sciences in 2001. Dr. Yucel received her MSc and PhD degrees in Department of Biotechnology from the Middle East Technical University in 2003 and 2009, respectively. She worked as a teaching assistant during her MSc and PhD within the Department of Biological Sciences. During her PhD Dr. Yucel went to United States as a visiting researcher by the support of TUBITAK Integrated PhD Grantee and she worked for one year at Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School and at Tufts University. She is a member of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Society (Turkey), Turkish Society for Electron Microscopy, International Federation of Societies for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry and European Microscopy Society. Her research areas are biomaterials (2D and 3D polymeric material designs), tissue engineering, stem cells, construction of biosensors and enzyme/protein immobilization on polymeric materials. She has been working as a faculty in Department of Histology and Embryology, at Acibadem University, School of Medicine, since 2011.

Research Interest

Biomaterials: Biosensors, enzyme and protein immobilization, nondegradable and biodegradable polymers Tissue engineering: Nerve and bone tissue engineering, 2D and 3D patterned polymeric scaffold designs Stem Cells: Mesenchymal stem cell isolation, culture and differentiation, neural stem cell culture and differentiation, stem cell culture in microfluidic systems.