Dr. Burak V. Kabasakal

Dr. Burak V Kabasakal received his BSc degree in Chemical Engineering from Hacettepe University. After graduate studies in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Hacettepe University, University of California, Davis and Imperial College London, respectively, he obtained a PhD degree in Dr. James W Murray Lab in Life Sciences from Imperial College London, UK. During his PhD, he studied structural and functional relations of carbon and nitrogen fixation proteins, and he was awarded International Biochemical Society Student Scholarship (2016), European Crystallography Association (ECA) Young Scientist Award (2016), International Crystallography Association (IUCR) Young Scientist Award (2016), and Stanford University Bio-X Award (2015). He then moved to Bristol as a postdoctoral researcher at Professors Christiane Berger-Schaffitzel and Imre Berger Lab in the University of Bristol, Biochemistry Department for about two years. He is now a Principal Investigator at Turkish Accelerator and Radiation Laboratory (TARLA), Ankara University, and the head of Proteomics Unit at AnkaTheraHub. His research interests are the structure-function relationship of proteins, and protein-protein interactions using electron cryo-microscopy, X-ray crystallography, and proteomics. He has nearly fourty protein structures published in the Protein Data Base (PDB).