Bilkent Faculty of Science: A Legacy of Excellence in Education
Bilkent Faculty of Science’s atmosphere of transdisciplinary collaboration has nourished an exemplary line of achievements. The success stories of our graduates highlight Bilkent Faculty of Science’s broad impact on scientific knowledge worldwide.
- Contributed to harmonic analysis and dispersive PDE
- Measured particles of light being “squeezed”, in an experiment that had been written off in physics textbooks as impossible to observe
- Defined how astrocytes in the brain form synapses
- Contributed to economic theory and market design
- Increased the speed of the laser 100 times
- Regulation of cell division using mass spectrometry based proteomics and anti-mitotic drugs in the treatment of cancer
- Investigations in the realm of Number Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry
- Invention of DISCO tissue transparency technology and deep learning based analysis of large 3D images in biomedicine
- Understanding the biogenesis and function of centrosomes and cilia for new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches
- Systematically mapping out cancer cell dependencies on nutrients for cancer therapy
- Identification of PTHrP, a tumour-derived hormonal factor, as an inducer of energy wasting and adipose tissue atrophy
- Discovery of an extremely rare galaxy with a unique circular structure, which is now commonly referred to as Burçin’s Galaxy
- Description of the gene regulatory mechanisms that control the development of neuronal diversity
- Discovery of genes associated with schizophrenia
- Contributed to the understanding of homochirality on the origins of life