GALLERY
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Celebrating Dr. Seyma Nur Bektas!
Pictures from our lab retreat!
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Lab retreat in Sapanca – May 2022
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Idil’s thesis defense celebration(26 May 2022)
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New group picture!! 2021 December!
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Our lab is renovated! We had to move everything out from the lab before renovation. Photo on the left shows a “before moving” photo. Photo on the top is “towards the end of the moving” photo. Photo on the bottom is a photo after renovation! We have new desks, cupboards, drawer and a brand new ceiling and lighting! We can’t wait to work!
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Hüseyin’s Thesis Defense cake
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Wellcome 2021!
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Cake in the porch!
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First time out during with the lab during the pandemic! Feels magical!
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Various expressions
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Catching up with missed cakes during the pandemic. Farewell Dilara…
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Our lab evil eye bead is multi-functioning as a wish tree 🙂
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Collective effort to purify more and MORE proteins! (Cansu, Hüseyin, İdil)
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focus, motivation dedication! (Betül)
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Improving at birthday celebration during COVID times!
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Celebration of Dilara’s Thesis Defense! Socially distant but together! (29 Jul 2020)
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Dilara successfully defended her MSc Thesis online! Congrats! (29 jul 2020)
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Keeping Social Distance and eating birthday cake! (10 jul 2020)
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First Birthday celebration after COVID19 – Happy birthday Şeyma! (10 jul 2020). We are so happy to be together – though for a limited time.
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Our first Zoom meeting in Corona isolation days.
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Cansu enjoying the snow after “the” experiment that worked finally! Yes!
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New year’s dinner at Aquarius! Delicious fish, mezze and booze with great company and the view of phosphorous at night!. 2020 will be great!
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Happy Birthday Cansu! – 25.Oct. 2019 –
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Istanbul – How nice it is to quantify data with this beautiful view !
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A little volcano on the agar plate – our new lab animal.
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Selfie: MBGE101 TAs happy and excited (and a little tired?) before the problem session!
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Girls out movie night!
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Yet another selfie from another celebration! We celebrated double birthdays at Tarabya seaside (September 2019). Happy Birthday Dilara! Happy Birthday Gülden!
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A selfie from my surprise Surprise Birthday Party!!! I would like to thank to all of my Team for this unique organization! We are a big growing family that I will always nourish and cherish! May your joy, enthusiasm and curiosity never ends! A very big thank you to you all! (Aug, 2019, Left to right: Dilara, Gülden, Hüseyin, Barış, Betül, Şeyma and me!!)
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Shedding light on Mitotic Exit! When the electricity goes off the lights of creativity goes off!
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Happy birthday Betül! Make a wish! (07.08.2019)
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Surprise Birthday Party for Şeyma! Happy Birthday Şeyma! Thanks to Dilara, Hüseyin and Betül for all the yummy food and the long night spent in the kitchen while preparing it! 10.07.2019 – College of science terase with the marvelous view – despite the rainy weather in July! Left to right : Şeyma, Tunahan, Barış, Betül – all others on the other side of the table: Ayşe, Dilara, Hüseyin, Kutluhan.
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Dilara at our microscope – June 2019
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Lab Selfie 2019-2
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Lab Selfie 2019 -1
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Group Photo, May 2019
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Working hard even when there is construction in the lab!
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Serious work in progress 🙂
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Creative Lab! Well Done!
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Deep discussions on CATAN at new years party!
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Dilara and Betül at their posters!
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Creativity increases late at night in the lab! Warning: Only yeast people can understand the humor in the motto!
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Lab visit to meet Deniz – and of course accompanied with desserts. A day to remember. (from left to right: Mukadder, Şeyma, Ayşe, Barış, Betül, Dilara.)
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Birthday girl on the terrace of college of sciences. Marvelous scene and yummy cakes! Aug, 2018.
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Ayse before her talk: “Hey guys! Could you please send me a lab picture ASAP!” The result comes out very nice: very first of the “Lab Selfie” to be repeated every year, Left to right: Baris – Betül – Şeyma, Spring 2018.
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After a lunch before new year, at Manzara Restaurant 2017. From left to right: Ayse-Betül-Dilara