Biology

Hello, I'm Professor Muazzez Gürgan Eser. I am working as a faculty member in the Department of Biology at Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, and doing studies in the field of Industrial Microbiology. Our department is located in Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University's Değirmenaltı Campus. We are located in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences building in this campus with a sea view. There are 6 main disciplines in our department. These; General Biology, Zoology, Botany, Hydrobiology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics. We are as a total of 12 faculty members working in these departments. Our department offers a total of 88 undergraduate courses, 42 compulsory and 46 elective. Our students can graduate after taking the compulsory courses in which the basic knowledge that a microbiologist should learn, and collecting the necessary credits by taking elective courses according to their scientific interests. There are 1 student laboratory and 7 research laboratories in our department. In these research laboratories, our students can carry out research in various fields together with our professors. Such researches include the Tick and Grasshopper Research, Various Cancer Research, Microbiology Research, Molecular Biology and Genetics Research. Our students generally participate in a compulsory internship program that lasts 30 working days at the end of their 6th semester. Our students have the opportunity to study at different universities for 1 or 2 semesters with Mevlana and Farabi Exchange programs. Apart from this, we have agreements with Erasmus Program for European countries. They can study for 1 or 2 semesters at some universities in Hungary, Poland and Ireland. Moreover, we have the opportunity to make agreements with many other universities in Europe. From time to time, foreign scientists from abroad come to our department to give lectures to our students within the scope of the Erasmus Program or the Scientists Support Programs organized by TÜBİTAK. As faculty members, we attend various congresses every year. After our students graduate; They can find jobs in institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and the Ministry of National Education. Besides, depending on the research areas, there are employment opportunities in manufacturing or quality control units in various areas such as nuclear research, forensics or industry. If you are interested in any creature from the smallest to the most developed, and if you want to do research in various fields of these creatures such as physiological, genetic, anatomical, morphological and biotechnology, you can choose our department. In Değirmenaltı Campus, there are gendered dormitories affiliated to the Credit and Hostels Institution (KYK), as well as 1 private girls' dormitory. Our campus has a comprehensive sports facility with a semi-olympic indoor swimming pool. Our students can socialize with their friends in the student cafeteria, department canteens and various places in the Social Life Center. Thanks to the 90 student societies and the free courses offered by the university, they have the chance to participate in activities aimed at their interests. As Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, we wish success to all our friends who will take the exam.