Melisa Demir
Hello there! I'm Melisa, a passionately curious molecular biologist who's fond of Life Sciences but mainly Neuroscience! Also, I'm currrently working with NGO's and open for work :) Feel free to contact with me from hello@melisademir.com
Here's my CV;
Work Experience
Ant Tanı Labratuvarı
Intern, Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
- Worked on various project, including Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR).
Bakırköy Ruh ve Sinir Hastalıkları Hastanesi
Graduate Student Researcher, May 2021 - Jul 2022
- As a student researcher with Çağatay Özulu and Beyza Yavuzcan, within the scope of TÜBİTAK 2209-A University Students Research Projects Support Program, we are running the project titled "Investigation of miRNA and Intracellular Signal Expression Levels in Peripheral Blood Before and After Antipsychotic Treatment in Female Schizophrenia Patients", which we started under the consultancy of Prof.Dr. Yusuf Tutar and Assoc. Prof. Ayşe Evrim Bayrak.
Marmara University, School of Medicine
Lab Intern, Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
- I gained experience and chance to an observation about Experimental Approaches to Epilepsy and Parkinson's Diseases, Animal Models in Epilepsy, Modeling of Epilepsy and Parkinson's Diseases, Stereotactic Surgery in Rats, Behavior Experiments, EEG Recording and Interpretation, Immunohistochemical Staining, etc.
Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine
Summer Intern, Oct 2019
- I've managed and observed to experiment with the techniques used in disease modeling in cell culture, gene & protein expression analysis; in addition to the methods used in genetics and biochemical studies performed on human samples with Assoc. Prof. Duygu Gezen Ak & Assoc. Prof. Erdinç Dursun.
Istanbul University, Plant Biotech Lab
Trainee, Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
Education
Istanbul University
Management, Sep 2022 - Jun 2026
Istanbul University
BSc. Molecular Biology and Genetics, Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
Istanbul University
BSc. Biology, Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Volunteership
Bilim Ofisi - İstanbul University Club
Sep 2019 - Present
Lions Clubs International 118-T District, Sarıyer Leo Club
Sep 2019 - Jan 2022
- During my membership, I took part in various social responsibility projects. Due to the pandemic conditions, we primarily continue our activities online with various informative meeting / online training, but the project I participated in to become an official member "Wish Tree 2021" project, adhering to the principle of '' If a child laughs, the world laughs '' within the scope of the project we helped 100 children between the ages of 4-18 to have a hopeful year by fulfilling the wishes of the children in the disadvantaged group in our society during the New Year.
Rotaract IR District 2420, Zekeriyaköy Rotaract Club
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
- During my time as a volunteer, I worked as the head of the Service Projects Committee in the organization and project coordination of social responsibility projects under various headings such as "Disabled Rights, Women's Rights and Child Brides, Equal Opportunity in Education and Advocacy of Girls' Right to Education".
- Also, I worked as a secretary in the administrative affairs of our club.