Yıldırım Chip Project

Hello, I am Yasin Öztürk. I am a graduate student at Yildirim Beyazit University in Ankara. I am also a Tübitak Scholar from the Tübitak Newton-Katip Çelebi Fund. Let's talk about our laboratory before we get to the projects. We work on microfluidic systems and electrophysiological systems in our laboratory. We have one sterilized room. In this sterilized room, we set up most things ourselves. In fact, we are also able to come and carry out studies here for undergraduate students. We currently have 4 undergraduate students. Along with my group friends, we are carrying out our projects with 2 graduate students, 2 postdoctoral researchers and 1 advisor. We participated in the Teknofest Competition held in Istanbul in the last months. We participated in this competition under the name of Yıldırım Chip Team. The name of our chip is “Yıldırım Chip”. We are actually working on the biomedical sector in general. I'm a metallurgical and material engineer. To add to the friends who will choose metallurgical and materials engineering, these engineers do not only work in heavy industries after graduation, they can also deal with Nano technological processes. Therefore, I would like to have friends who can make a choice in this direction by choosing this department. Because the work we do is really high-tech and interesting, at least for undergraduate people. Therefore, students who want to work with us in our laboratory have a lot of interest. Before I talk about the Yıldırım Chip Project, let me talk about hospital microbes, as you know, hospital microbes are resistant microbes. How resistant are microbes? They are microbes that can be affected by major disinfectants and antibiotics and gain resistance to them over time. Some people say we're in a war that won't be won over these microbes. So, we're at war with them. The more antibiotics we give them, the stronger they get. We, as the Yıldırım Chip Team, have designed a chip to reduce the deaths caused by these microbes. Our chip consists of 4 main items. They are often used in biological applications, and we have installed them in a chip. What techniques were used? Microfluidic technique was used. We can perform certain biological applications in one chip. With this, we participated in the competition and ranked 5th in the Teknofest Technologies for The Benefit of Humanity Competition. We started our project with much better goals, so we will continue our project. We also have electrophysiology experiments here. With electrophysiology, we are able to see and study things in the nano-scale, that is, up to one billionth of a meter. We work with very sensitive devices. We also apply a method called oxygen plasma in our laboratory. In addition, we can apply other ultraviolet systems in our laboratory. We can do impedance analysis. We can do things that are not very common in our country right now. We did not do our project in Teknofest with a single engineering branch; in our group, we had 1 biology doctor, 1 chemical doctor, 2 metallurgical and material engineer friends. Therefore, if we want to do something with today's technologies, we can do it by gathering several people from different fields. Good aspects can appear. Therefore, friends who want to make such projects need to work in groups. Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University is a university that encourages group work. This encouragement is so much that I am currently struggling with undergraduate students. We meet several different groups several times a week and make group projects. We're discussing things in our head. Therefore, we can say that a very active educational life continues here. I recommend Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. I already wish success to the friends who will prefer Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University.