Nigar KANTARCI ÇARŞIBAŞI, Ph.D

Computer-aided drug design, Protein engineering, Protein-protein and protein-drug interactions, Protein modeling, Polymer Technology and Engineering.

Born in 1979 in Istanbul, Dr. Nigar Kantarcı Çarşıbaşı completed her high school education at Eyüboğlu Science High School between 1994-1997 and graduated with first place. She completed her undergraduate education at Boğaziçi University, Department of Chemical Engineering in 2001. Between 2001 and 2003, she continued her master's degree in Boğaziçi Chemical Engineering, and during this time she conducted hydrodynamic and heat transfer studies on the "Bubble Column Reactor" that she designed and installed. Dr. Kantarcı Çarşıbaşı has 2 articles published in SCI from her master's thesis studies. She carried out her doctoral studies at Boğaziçi Chemical Engineering Polymer Research Center between 2003-2009. Kantarcı Çarşıbaşı worked on short protein chains that bind to metals by molecular dynamics simulation within the scope of her doctoral studies. In another study, she conducted modeling studies on the p53 protein, an important tumor suppressor protein, and its interaction with DNA. Within the scope of her doctoral thesis, she modeled the conformational transitions of proteins using a mathematical modeling technique she developed, and by combining the Anisotropic Network Model with the Monte Carlo Technique, she investigated the transition pathways for many proteins from open to closed, from free to bound form. Dr. Nigar Kantarcı Çarşıbaşı has 4 articles published in SCI within the scope of his doctoral studies. She still continues her studies at Üsküdar University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Kantarcı Çarşıbaşı's academic research areas are: bioinformatics, protein modeling, protein-protein interactions, protein-structure-function relationship, computer aided drug design.

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