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September 5, 2024-GTU Office of Press and Public Relations
Big support from TÜBİTAK for scientific projects by GTU academics! Two important projects in the field of electronics engineering and biotechnology are awarded funding by TÜBİTAK.
The TÜBİTAK 1002-A project titled "Development of a Well-Conditioned T-Matrix Method Based on Two-Dimensional Shifted Boundary Condition in a Planar Layered Medium for Applications Based on Light and Microwave Scattering," led by Associate Professor Fatih Dikmen from the Department of Electronics Engineering, with Research Assistant Murat Enes Hatipoğlu from the same department, and Dr. Aytaç Alparslan, a faculty member from Trakya University's Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, has been awarded funding.
Project Abstract: Electromagnetic scattering formulations in planar layered media form the foundation for many modern applications in the light and microwave regime. At the core of these formulations lie the Green functions, which represent the source response of the medium. The project aims to optimize the path in the complex plane of Sommerfeld integrals, which can avoid spectral singularities in the semi-analytical computation of the two-dimensional versions of these functions, using genetic algorithms. Additionally, an approximate version of the Green functions obtained via the discrete complex image method will also be evaluated. These methods facilitate the reduction of modeling and computational load in cases of cylindrical symmetry. With these two functions, access to the integral representation of the scattered field obtained through the equivalence principle will be provided. The T-Matrix formulation is widely used, especially because it facilitates the modeling of scattering from multiple bodies. In this context, the Green functions obtained play a critical role in constructing the T-Matrix formulation. The T-Matrix formulation will be validated with boundary integral formulations and will be modularly constructed for planar layered media.
Another TÜBİTAK-funded project is the TÜBİTAK 1001 project titled "Investigation of the Effects of Post-Translational Modifications of Elk-1 Protein on Protein Aggregation Profile in In Vitro Neurodegeneration Models," led by Dr. Ekin Sönmez from the Institute of Biotechnology. This project, resubmitted without waiting for the next term, has been selected for support in the 1st Period of 2024.
Project Abstract: Protein accumulation and aggregate formation play an important role in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Huntington's, and ALS. In this project, the effects of Elk-1 protein on protein aggregation and cell survival in these disease models will be investigated, and the therapeutic potential of Elk-1-derived peptides that may prevent protein aggregation will be explored. In the long term, this study could contribute to the development of new treatment methods for neurodegenerative diseases.
We congratulate our academics and wish them success in their future research. |
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