MBG492 Thesis Defense Announcement

MBG492 Thesis Defense Announcement

Dear Bilkent MBG Community,

It is our pleasure to invite you to join us for the MBG492 Thesis Defense, which will take place on 8 Jan 2026 at 10:00, in SBZ-14, located in B-block of the Faculty of Science.

Here are the students:

Dilara Fatma Babacan (Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özlen Konu)
Thesis Title: "Comparative Analysis of Metabolic Pathways in High-Fat Diet-Exposed Danio Rerio Larvae and Benchmarking of Multi-omics Integration Tools"

Doğukan Sadıkoğlu (Advisor: Dr. Christoph Ratzke, Co-advisor: Dr. Ilyas Chachoua)
Thesis Title: "Increasing Species Richness Reduces Ruggedness In Microbial Community Functional Landscapes"