Sebiha Cevik

Soon after Sebiha Cevik completed her BSc degree she joined the Marc Vidal Lab in Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston, USA in July 2005 as a research assistant. Subsequently she embarked on her PhD study in the Conway Institute, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland in 2006. Her PhD study aimed at understanding the roles of novel ciliary-related genes in cilia biogenesis using C. elegans as the primary model system. Cilia are an evolutionary conserved organelle from Chlamydomonas, C. elegans, Drosophila, Zebrafish to Human and have become the intensive focus of research owing its direct role in a wide range of human diseases. She obtained her Ph.D. in Genetics in 2011. She has started to work as a researcher/lecturer at the Department of Life and Natural Science in Abdullah Gul University, Kayseri, Turkey since 2015.

She set up a research lab, where she employs C. elegans as the primary model organism to understand the molecular mechanism underlying decision making in the nervous system. Her lab has started to investigate the roles of computationally predicted candidate genes in the decision making using behavior assays, genetics, cell biology and optogenetics.

November 2016