Seminar “Different Production Methods for Collagen Nanofibers and Research Activities @ IMU, Kazanci Nanoscience Research Lab.”

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to invite you to a seminar by Prof. Murat Kazanci from Istanbul Medeniyet University.

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Date:   March 27th, Tuesday, 2018

Time:   2 pm – 3pm

Venue: Meeting Room C015, Level C, Lab 1

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Title: Different Production Methods for Collagen Nanofibers and Research Activities @ IMU, Kazanci Nanoscience Research Lab.

Speaker: Prof. Murat Kazanci

Affiliation: Istanbul Medeniyet University

Abstract:

In this talk, different collagen nanofiber production methods, namely, electrospinning, and self-assembly of collagen fibers will be introduced and discussed. Extraction methods of collagen from tendon and skin to be used in nanofiber production process will be introduced. The robustness and advantages of the production methods will be discussed. The possible effects of reproduction methods, processes on the native structure and the comparison of collagen fibrils will be presented by using different characterization techniques such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), FTIR and Circular Dichroism (CD) methods.

Biography:

Murat Kazanci is an Associate Professor (tenured) in Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Natural Sciences & Engineering, at Istanbul Medeniyet University where he has been a faculty member since 2017. He is also the director of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering masters and PhD programmes.

Prof. Kazanci completed his Ph.D. at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, MSc. at Cornell University and his undergraduate studies at Istanbul Technical University. He worked as a postdoc at Max Planck Institute, Golm-Potsdam Germany, St FX, Canada, Uni Heidelberg and KIT in Germany. His research interests lie in the area of nanofiber production methods, bio-inspired materials, protein based biomaterials, production of protein scaffolds, nano-characterization techniques. He has collaborated actively with researchers at KIT and Max-Planck in Germany.

Prof. Kazanci is serving as an advisory committee member for Turkish National Scientific Committee and European Research Council. He is the instructor for Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanoengineering & Polymeric Nanocomposite courses. Prof. Kazanci likes history, culture trips & politics. He is interested in genetic genealogy and leading two national genetic projects.

For additional information see http://aves.medeniyet.edu.tr/murat.kazanci/