| Mar 2026 | Meric presented at the VPC Terry Fox Seminar Series! |
| Mar 2026 | Emir presented at the VPC Terry Fox Seminar Series! |
| Mar 2026 | Happy birthday Isabelle and Berkay! We celebrated their birthday at Zab Zaab Thai Cuisine!! |
| Mar 2026 | Olka is awarded Mitacs Accelerate Functionally Characterizing Enhancers in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer! |
| Mar 2026 | Brandon graduated! Congratulations and best of luck in your future endeavours Brandon! |
| Feb 2026 | Happy birthday Olka and Nathan! We celebrated their birthday at our lab favourite restaurant, Akbarjoojeh 19th! |
| Feb 2026 | Berkay presented at VPC Terry Fox Seminar Series! |
| Jan 2026 | Our lab is awarded the TÜBİTAK 1001 research grant! |
| Apr 2026 | |
| Jan 2026 | Berkay presented at VPC Terry Fox Seminar Series! |
| Jan 2026 | Isabelle Hwang joined our Vancouver lab as a co-op student! Welcome Isabelle! |
| Dec 2025 | We had our annual end of the year gathering to celebrate the hard work throughout the year and also the newlyweds Meric and Meltem! |
| Dec 2025 | Olka was selected for the Falling Walls Female Science Talents Intensive Track 2026! |
| Dec 2025 | Betul and Shreyas’ paper is published in PNAS! |
| Nov 2025 | We had a lab dinner at Mongo Bongo Mongolian Grill! |
| Nov 2025 | Kenan Sevinc joined our Istanbul lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Kenan! |
| Oct 2025 | Happy Birthday Ivan! We celebrated Ivan’s birthday at Miso Taco! |
| Oct 2025 | Meric and Meltem got Married! We gathered for a breakfast in Vancouver to watch the live stream of their wedding in Turkey! All the best in your shared future Meric and Meltem! |
| Oct 2025 | Emir joined our Vancouver Lab to get his hands wet! |
| Sep 2025 | Meric Graduated! Congratulations on a wonderful Ph.D. thesis defence and a very well deserved Ph.D. degree! |
| Sep 2025 | Happy Birthday Rosie, Flora, Daniel, Tunc, Jane, Meric and Aaira! We held the September Birthday Bash with a big dinner at Dosanko Restaurant! |
| Aug 2025 | Daniel completed his co-op term with us! |
| Aug 2025 | Kerim’s review paper is published in Bioscience Reports! |
| Jul 2025 | Our lab is awarded the CIHR Project Grant! |
| Jul 2025 | Berkay is awarded Cancer Research Society’s Doctoral Research Award! |
| Jul 2025 | Sila graduated! Congratulations on a wonderful Master’s thesis defence and best of luck in your future endeavours Sila! |
| Jun 2025 | Kerim and Nathan attended the EMBO Workshop on Enhancer Mechanics and Enhanceropathies in Middelfart, Denmark! |
| Jun 2025 | Kerim is awarded the VCHRI Rising Star Award! |
| Jun 2025 | Nathan is awarded Research teaching award for Excellence in Basic Science! |
| Jun 2025 | Lack Lab presented at the 19th Lorne D. Sullivan Research Day! |
| May 2025 | Rosie and James graduated! |
| Apr 2025 | Happy birthday Kerim, Aarush, Preeti, Dogancan, Shabnam, and Funda! We held the April Birthday Bash with a big gathering at the UBC campus! |
| Mar 2025 | Rosie and James presented their posters for their Honor’s Theses! |
| Mar 2025 | Happy birthday Berkay and James! We celebrated their birthdays at Salsa & Agave Mexican Grill! |
| Mar 2025 | Berkay gave a talk at BIG25 Research Day! |
| Feb 2025 | Kerim won the People’s Choice Award in the VCHRI Heat of the UBC 3-Minute Thesis Competition! |
| Feb 2025 | Hatice Kibar joined our Istanbul lab as a bioinformatics Ph.D. student. Welcome Hatice! |
| Feb 2025 | Bengul’s paper is published in Communications Biology! |
| Feb 2025 | Happy birthday Olka! We celebrated Olka’s birthday at Nonna’s Italian Street Food! |
| Jan 2025 | Lack Lab warmly welcomes Mayuko and Daniel with a dinner at Akbar Joojeh Persian Restaurant |
| Apr 2026 | |
| Dec 2024 | Kerim is awarded UBC Science Co-op Supervisor Recognition Award! |
| 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 | Kerim is awarded Prostate Cancer Foundation of Canada’s Grant-in-Aid! |
| Aug 2024 | Nathan is awarded the best poster presentation in at the PacRim Breast and Prostate Cancer Meeting in Darwin, Australia! |
| Aug 2024 | Kerim is awarded Cancer Research Society’s Doctoral Research Award! |
| 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. |