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Eda Celik

Senior Lecturer

R.F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Eda Celik
Eda Celik

Biography

Eda Celik joined the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the summer of 2024. She received her B.S. (2001), M.S. (2003), and Ph.D. (2008) degrees from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. During her Ph.D. studies, she spent a year (2005-2006) at the University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences, working with Prof. Stephen G. Oliver. From 2009 to 2011, she worked as a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University, under the mentorship of Prof. Matthew DeLisa. She then joined Hacettepe University in Turkey and was promoted to associate professor in 2020 at the Department of Chemical Engineering, also affiliated with the Bioengineering Division at the Institute of Science. She has received the EU Marie-Curie Career Integration Grant (2012) and the UNESCO-L’Oréal National Fellowship for Young Women in Science (2014).

Teaching Interests

Dr. Celik has previously taught several graduate-level courses (Biochemical Engineering, Genetics Engineering and Scientific Research Techniques) and undergraduate-level courses (Numerical Analysis, Computer Programming, Chemical Process Industries, Project Planning and Organization, Process Control and Chemical Engineering Laboratory).

Her current courses are:

ChemE 2880 – Biomolecular Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications

ChemE 5430 – Bioprocess Engineering

ChemE 6430 – Advanced Principles of Biomolecular Engineering

Select Publications

  • Kocer, I., Celik, E., 2024. “In silico analysis of the different variable domain oriented single-chain variable fragment antibody-antigen complexes”, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 42, 4699-4709.

  • Sahinbas, D., Celik, E., 2023.  “Enhanced production and single step purification of biologically active recombinant anti-IL6-scFv from Escherichia coli inclusion bodies”, Process Biochemistry, 133, 151-157.

  • Cambay, F., Kocer, I., Kip, C., Celik, E., Tuncel, A., 2023. “Ni(II) functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane based capillary monolith for isolation of histidine-tagged proteins by micro-immobilized metal affinity chromatography”, Journal of Chromatography B, 1225, 123759.

  • Cagdas-Tunali, B., Celik, E., Budak-Yildiran, F.A., Turk, M., 2023. “Delivery of siRNA using hyaluronic acid guided nanoparticles for downregulation of CXCR4”, Biopolymers, 114, e23535.

  • Tsogtbaatar, K., Sousa, D.A., Ferreira, D., Tevlek, A., Aydin, H.M., Celik, E., Rodrigues, L., 2022. “In vitro selection of DNA aptamers against human osteosarcoma,” Investigational New Drugs, 40, 172-181.

Select Awards and Honors

  • Outstanding Young Scientist Granting Award, Hacettepe University. 2016
  • National Fellowship for Young Women in Science, UNESCO-L’Oréal. 2014
  • Poster Award, 2nd place, Biotech2008 Conference, Switzerland. 2008
  • National Ph.D. Scholarship, TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). 2004-2008
  • International Research Scholarship for Ph.D. studies, TUBITAK, NATO-A2 Program. 2005-2006
  • Hasan Orbey Research Award in Graduate Degree, Chemical Engineering, Middle East Technical Uni. 2003
  • National M.S. Scholarship, TUBITAK.      2001-2003

Education

  • B.S. (Chemical Engineering), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey      2001
  • M.S. (Chemical Engineering), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 2003
  • Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 2008
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University 2009-2011