News

• Aug. 2020 -- Our team member Halil Mert Solak won the "EkoEvo Student Awards; Best International Publication Award" . For details click here. 

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• Feb. 2020 -- New project entitled "The complete, genome-wide phylogenetic history of speciation and adaptive radiation in Blind Mole Rats (Spalax and Nannospalax) in their entire distribution range" officially started. TUBITAK 1001

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• Feb. 2020 -- Our new paper entitled "Altitudinal effects on innate immune response of a subterranean rodent" is published by Zoological Science Journal. DOI: 10.2108/zs190067

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• Dec. 2019 -- Our team member Halil Mert Solak finished his MSc thesis entitled "Altitudinal Effects on Innate Immune Response and Local Population Genetic Structure of Nannospalax xanthodon (Anatolian Blind Mole Rat)".

• Dec.2019 -- Our team member Anastasia Uludüz presented poster in World Marine Marine Conference.

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• Sept.2019 -- Our project entitled "The complete, genome-wide phylogenetic history of speciation and adaptive radiation in Blind Mole Rats (Spalax ve Nannospalax) in their entire distribution range" is supported by TUBITAK 1001 program (119Z400).

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• Aug.2019 -- Our new paper entitled "Altitudinal effects on innate immune response of a subterranean rodent" is accepted by Zoological Science Journal (see publication page for details).

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• July.2019 -- Our team members Anastasia Uludüz and Halil Mert Solak presented posters in EEBST 2019.

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• April.2019 --  "Invesitigation of Dispersal and Demographic Characteristics of Blind Mole Rats Using Microsatellite Markers" entitled project field observations started.

• April.2019 -- Our team visited Georgian collaborators to discuss first results and future directions of Darevskia project.

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• Mar.2019 -- Our collaborator Lena Gladilina comes for a TUBITAK 2221- funded research visit.

• Mar.2019 -- Mobile version of website is now stable.

• Nov. 2018 -- Mustafa Sözen travels to Thailand as a member of the Turkish scientific delegation, sponsored by TUBITAK.

• Sept./Oct. 2018 -- Halil M. Solak goes for an visiting internship in Bielefeld, funded by Erasmus.

• June/July 2018 -- Our collaborator Jamie Winternitz (University of Bielefeld, Germany) comes for a TUBITAK 2221-funded research visit.

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• Feb./March 2018 -- We finally start receiving TUBITAK funding for the research on high-altitude adaptation in the blind mole rats and on the reticulate speciation in rock lizards.

• Feb.2018 -- Our website is online.