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Jan 2025 Lack Lab warmly welcomes Mayuko and Daniel with a dinner at Akbar Joojeh Persian Restaurant
Dec 2024 Lack Lab gathers for a Vancouver dinner at TENEN, an Eastern European restaurant
Nov 2024 Berkay’s paper has been published in Nature Communications
Oct 2024 Kerim passed his comprehensive exam with flying colors!
Oct 2024 Happy Birthday, Ivan! We celebrated with a dinner at Sun Bo Kong, a vegetarian Chinese restaurant
Sep 2024 Happy Birthday, Flora! Dinner celebration at Homura Yakiniku, Japanese BBQ.
Sep 2024 Happy Birthday to Rosie, Flora, Emir, and Meric! We had a wonderful hotpot dinner together at Happy Lamb
Sep 2024 Emir visits his wet lab colleagues in Vancouver!
Aug 2024 Congratulations to Rosie and James on completing their coop and starting their internships!
Jun 2024 Meric proudly presented at the Terry Fox Seminars!
Jun 2024 Berkay presented at the Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigators Meeting!
Jun 2024 Berkay, Meric, and Kerim presented at the 18th Annual Lorne D. Sullivan Lectureship and Research Day!
Jun 2024 Lack Lab enjoyed a delightful dinner at Banana Leaf!
May 2024 Vancouver witnessed the mesmerizing northern lights!
May 2024 Wishing Emir the best as he heads to McGill as a visiting researcher with Yue Li!
Apr 2024 Wishing Ivan the best as he heads to the UK as a visiting researcher at Adam Sharp’s lab!
Mar 2024 Emir attended the IGVF MPRA Workshop and presented a poster!
Mar 2024 Kerim delivered an inspiring talk at the Terry Fox Seminar!
Mar 2024 Dinner at MeeT in Yaletown! Happy Birthday, Berkay, James, and Nathan!
Mar 2024 Nathan delivered his talk at the SPORE meeting!
Feb 2024 Congratulations to Lynn for winning the Best Poster award at the KUTTAM GRC Conference!
Feb 2024 Lynn and Brandon gave great presentations at the Pharmacology-Physiology Seminars at Koc!
Feb 2024 Happy Birthday, Olka! Celebrated with delicious tacos at La Taqueria Pinche Taco Shop!
Feb 2024 Rosie and James received BioTalent funding — congratulations! We celebrated with dinner at Suika
Dec 2023 We enjoyed a festive Joint Secret Santa celebration with the Lallous Lab!
Dec 2023 Lack Lab celebrated Christmas with a delightful dinner at Stepho’s, a Greek restaurant!
Dec 2023 Kerim visited the Lack Lab in Istanbul!
Nov 2023 The Vancouver team triumphed at trivia night and gave a warm welcome to Olka!
Oct 2023 The big Lack Lab family gathered for a wonderful meal at Golden Swan Restaurant!
Oct 2023 Happy Birthday, Ivan!
Oct 2023 The Koç team observed a Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RARP)!
Sep 2023 Lack Lab Vancouver had a fantastic evening playing pool and joining a trivia night at the American Pub!
Aug 2023 Brandon James Fasy has joined the Turkish dry lab team as a M.Sc. student!
Jun 2023 Berkay and Doğancan showcased their artwork at the “Artists in Science” exhibition in the VPC atrium!
Jun 2023 We enjoyed a lovely dinner with Nathan in Richmond at Once More restaurant!
Jun 2023 Meric, Kerim, and Ivan presented their posters at the 17th Annual Lorne D. Sullivan Research Day
Apr 2023 We celebrated Doğancan’s birthday with joy and laughter!
Apr 2023 Congratulations to Emir for earning the 2nd Best Presentation Award at the KUTTAM GRC
Mar 2023 Berkay delivered an engaging 5-minute lay talk at the BIG23 Research Day!
Mar 2023 Congratulations to Berkay for his amazing talk at the VPC/Terry Fox Seminar Series
Feb 2023 Dinner and a surprise for Nathan
Feb 2023 Our snpSTARRseq paper was published in NAR so we went curling!
Jan 2023 Congratulations to Ivan for passing his comprehensive exam and advancing to PhD candidacy!
Jan 2023 Congratulations to Ivan for his excellent talk at the VPC/Terry Fox Seminar Series.
Dec 2022 Congratulations to Meric for passing the comprehensive exam and advancing to PhD candidacy!
Dec 2022 Congratulations Dr. Morova! Tunç succesfully defended his dissertation.
Sep 2022 Ivan Yu was awarded the PCFBC's Grant-in-Aid award!
Sep 2022 Lynn Masri and Sıla Akdoğan have joined the lab as dry lab PhD students!
Aug 2022 Umut Berkay Altıntaş (MSc) successfully defended his thesis and graduated!
Aug 2022 Elif Yapıcı (MSc) successfully defended her thesis and graduated!
Aug 2022 Betül Ersoy (PhD) successfully defended her thesis and graduated!
Jul 2022 We went axe throwing!
Mar 2022 Kerim Yavuz has joined the lab as a wet lab PhD student!
Feb 2022 Betul won the best presentation award at the KUTTAM Graduate Research Seminar for her work on HOXB13
Jan 2022 Bengul Gokbayrak (PhD) successfully defended her thesis and graduated!
Dec 2021 Dogancan Ozturan (PhD) successfully defended his thesis and graduated!
Dec 2021 We celebrated Christmas with our team in Koc.
Dec 2021 Flora was awarded the 2021 Co-op Supervisor Award!
Oct 2021 Ugur Meric Dikbas was awarded the PCFBC's Grant-in-Aid award for his work on HOXB13's structural biology!
Oct 2021 Hot pot with the Vancouver team
Oct 2021 First post COVID in-person lab meeting in Istanbul.