Turkish
Assoc. Prof. Bora GARİPCAN
Boğaziçi University
Biomimetic Biomaterials
About the Seminar:
It is known that materials found in nature have many superior properties, and it is thought that there are many features that are waiting to be discovered. Mankind has produced various materials by taking samples from nature in order to make life easier since the early ages. The search for a solution to human problems by examining nature, later continued with biomimetic and biorespiration approaches, and the products created as a result of these approaches have been moved one step further with the help of technological developments. These approaches have been used not only in one area of life, but in many areas from art to architecture, from robotics to tissue engineering. The studies we have conducted on these issues, the scope of biomimetic approaches, their use in biomedical engineering and especially in biomaterial applications have been discussed in detail.
About the Speaker:
Bora Garipcan graduated from Hacettepe University Department of Chemistry in 1999, received his master’s degree from the Biochemistry department of the same department in 2001 and his PhD in 2008 from Hacettepe University, Department of Bioengineering. During his doctorate, Bora Garipcan, who worked at Drexel University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia, USA, was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Materials Science and Technology at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany, with Marie Curie scholarship, between 2008-2009. worked as. Since July 2011, he has been working at Boğaziçi University Biomedical Engineering Institute. His main research topics are: Bio and Nano materials, Biomimetics and biosensors. His research interests cover the investigation of cell-surface interactions using different techniques.