My heart is broken into pieces: Rest in peace Bir Genetikçinin Dünyası I feel happy to have known you, be inspired from you at every level, as your teacher, as a big sister, as a cancer survivor, as a cancer researcher +

Is hard to do when your university force you to live in a 10 m2 dorm room with someone!

The national graduate student salaries are not sufficient to cover even shared housing in İstanbul. Dorms have provided a temporary sollution to this problem. I am devastated with today’s news on shared rooms for PhDs.

Koç Üniversitesi lisansüstü öğrencileri, yurt sorununun çözümü (!) için kendilerine taahhüt edilen tek kişilik odalarının paylaşımlı odalara çevrilmesini kabul etmiyor! Barınma sorununun ayrım gözetmeksizin hiçbir öğrenciyi mağdur etmeden çözülmesini istiyoruz! #KocUniliYurtsuz

The current housing situation imposed to our PhD students three weeks before the semester starts is not acceptable and will disrupt retainment and recruitment of graduate students.

Our version of E.T. 📍 #organoids

Let me go human, it's the weekend 👋🏼 #organoids

I am delighted to share that our first article is now online at ACS Applied Bio Materials! Very excited to share our decellularized hydrogels with you !! Ece Öztürk- ECOM Lab pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

our brothers & sisters in #turkey and region desperately need our help. please donate to Turkish Philanthropy earthquake relief and recovery efforts. i have pledged $1M and will match up to $1M in additional donations to aid those affected by this disaster bit.ly/3RC8ooM

Sena and Sevgi are wonderfully representing our lab this year at the #eacrGoodbyeFlatBiology meeting! 😍

And that's a wrap! 🎬 We had a fun shooting day, stay tuned for our upcoming video protocol on decellularization of native tissues 🎥

ECOM Lab in Bergamo! Alican Kuşoğlu Sena Ozkan Sevgi Sarıca presented their PhD work at the EACR's Tumor Ecosystem meeting and wonderfully represented our lab 😊

Big congrats to Sena Ozkan and Alican Kuşoğlu for receiving the EACR Researcher Development Grant! 🥳

I am delighted to share such a good article and the opportunity to contribute. I highly recommend taking a look. "Stencil-Based Selective Surface Functionalization of Silicon Nanowires in 3D Device Architectures for Next-Generation Biochemical Sensors"(pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…)

Exciting News! 🎉 I am thrilled to announce the publication of our article, which delves into the fascinating world of tissue-specific endothelial cells and dynamic interplay with the resident tissues, focusing on lung microvasculature. Ece Öztürk- ECOM Lab dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/flsrt/i…

Our tumor organoid team enjoying learning single cell approaches 🧬🫁

In our recent work led by Sena Ozkan, we evaluated the use of lung-specific microvascular cells for lung TE, compared to gold standard HUVECs and showed how they synergize with organotypic lung-derived ECM hydrogels! Full text: dergipark.org.tr/en/download/ar…

On #WorldLungCancerDay, we are very excited to share our latest paper @AdvSciNews on a novel bioengineered lung tumor model which mimics the aberrant sulfation of tumor matrices! 🫁 🧫🔬🧬 Full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Huge kudos to the leading authors Alican Kuşoğlu denizornk and Aslı Dansık, Ceren Uzun, Sena Ozkan Sevgi Sarıca Kardelen Yangın ismail can and the whole team for their hard work 👏

2025 Commencement was special for our lab as these three brilliant scientists threw their cap. Feel very lucky and proud to be their PI! 🎓🎉🥹