Melike Sarıçam

Melike Sarıçam graduated from Yeditepe University in 2013 with Third Place rank and Honour degree in Genetics and Bioengineering. She earned Erasmus scholarship in her placement year, which was at Human Genetics Department of Hamburg-Eppedorf University where she worked on a project involving several in vitro mammalian cell culture and genetic engineering techniques. During her Bachelor thesis, she studied to monitor bacterial death in the presence of nanoparticles via Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. She completed an integrated PhD. Program in Biotechnology Department of Yeditepe University in 2019 with a High Honour degree. During her PhD, she worked as a researcher in a COST-Action project concerning development a novel technique to detect cytotoxicity caused by nanoparticle exposure by Surface-Enhanced Raman spectroscopy and then TUBİTAK 1001 project examining cellular response of gold nanoparticles functionalized with custom designed oligonucleotides, peptides and carbohydrates  in heathy and cancerous cell lines. In 2020, she took up a Senior Researcher position in TÜBİTAK MAM Diagnostic Technologies Laboratory and her interest lies in the behavior of development diagnosis kits within this, in particular, lateral flow immunoassay, colorimetric detection kits, magnetic nanoparticle based diagnosis kits and glucose sensors. She greatly enjoys the synthesis of environment-friendly nanoparticles and nanostructures to be used in theranostic applications and development of optic sensors based on Raman spectroscopy for chemical and biological agent detection, and wishes to excel in this scientific field in the future.