Involved Faculty Members:
Assist. Prof. Dr. Sreeparna Banerjee
Assist. Prof. Dr. Elif Erson
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aysegül Gözen
Prof. Dr. Ufuk Gündüz
Prof. Dr. Tülin Güray
Prof. Dr. Vasıf Hasırcı
Prof. Dr. Mesude İşcan
Prof. Dr. Fatih İzgü
Prof. Dr. Zeki Kaya
Prof. Dr. Semra Kocabıyık
Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Avni Öktem
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sertaç Önde
Prof. Dr. Gülay Özcengiz
Prof. Dr. Feride Severcan
Prof. Dr. İnci Togan
Prof. Dr. Meral Yücel
Due to the diversity of the field several tracks and therefore several groups of courses are proposed.
The Tracks of Biotechnology:
Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology
Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering
Microbial Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Admission Conditions to the Field:
The students who apply to this program are expected and/or recommended to take the following courses or equivalents:
Freshman Biology, Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics
Organic Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry (BIO 321)
Physical Chemistry (BIO 415)
Biochemistry (BIO 307, BIO 310)
Microbiology (BIO 303 and BIO 355))
Genetics (BIO 315)
For M.S.
7 courses and a Seminar (Seminar in Biology, BIO 501)
Must Course: None
7 technical electives: These can be selected from the list below
List of Recommended Courses for M.S.
BIO 503 Intermediary Metabolism and its Regulation
BIO 505 Advanced Molecular Genetics
BIO 506 Radiation Biology
BIO 507 Neurobiology
BIO 509 Enzyme Kinetics
BIO 510 Structure and Function of Biological Membranes
BIO 511 Experimental Techniques in Biochemistry
BIO 512 Quantitative Problems in Biochemistry
BIO 513 Biology of Cancer
BIO 514 Biomaterials
BIO 515 Bioenergetics
BIO 516 Control Mechanisms in Biochemistry
BIO 522 Metabolic Aspects of Conjugation Reactions
BIO 527 Transgenic Plant Technology
BIO 528 Quantitative Genetics
BIO 530 Cytogenetics
BIO 532 Experiments in Molecular Genetics
BIO 533 Enzyme Technology
BIO 537 Genetic Engineering
BIO 538 Advanced Molecular Biology
BIO 541 Advanced Microbiology
BIO 542 Antibacterial Agents
BIO 543 Experimental Enzymology
BIO 544 Control Mechanisms in Molecular Biology
BIO 546 Plant Genetics and Breeding
BIO 547 Biophysics of Excitable Membranes
BIO 552 Secondary Metabolites of Industrial Microorganisms
BIO 554 Macromolecules in Biomedicine and Biotechnology
BIO 562 Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules and Membranes
BIO 580 Controlled Release Systems and Drug Targeting
BIO 584 Advances in Biomaterials
BIO 705 Protein Structure-Function and Stability
BIO 710 Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
BIO 713 Molecular Aspects of Oxygenases
BIO 715 Genomics and Proteomics