Assoicate Professor Yalçın ERZURUMLU 

1) Associate Professor Başak GÖKÇE

2) Associate Professor Yalçın ERZURUMLU

3) Research Assistant Yağmur DOĞANLAR

Communication:

1) +90 246 211 0184

2) +90 246 211 0345

3) +90 246 211 0332

Biochemistry is a subdiscipline of both biology and chemistry. It is a branch of science that studies the structure and components of living things such as plants, animals, and microorganisms, and the chemical processes that occur throughout an organism's life at the molecular level. Biochemistry is a multidisciplinary field that draws its roots from the health and life sciences and has given rise to new branches of science such as genetics and forensic medicine. Today, molecular biology encompasses traditional disciplines such as cell biology, enzyme biology, and biotechnology, as well as newer scientific fields such as genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. Biochemistry studies are intertwined with organic, inorganic, analytical chemistry, and advanced molecular biology techniques. Identifying differences in protein, RNA, and DNA levels in normal and pathological states of an organism constitutes the fundamental subject of biochemistry. Therefore, biochemistry plays an important role in determining the causes of diseases and in the design and targeting of drugs to be used to eliminate these causes. The aim of the Department of Analytical Chemistry is to provide students with a solid and sufficiently broad theoretical and methodological foundation to teach them the techniques of chemical and instrumental analysis of inorganic and organic substances, including drugs.

The undergraduate courses offered by our department aim to provide students with the theoretical and practical training necessary to understand physiological and pathological events in living organisms and the effects of drugs. Our undergraduate education, through advanced theoretical and practical courses, aims to equip students with fundamental biochemical and molecular biological techniques, tests used in disease diagnosis and monitoring, and to train pharmacists who possess the qualifications of scientifically qualified researchers and academics. This includes biochemical tests performed on biological materials for disease diagnosis and monitoring, and drugs that interfere with these tests.

Research Areas: Cell death mechanisms, Ubiquitination, ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation pathway, proteasomal degradation, autophagy, DNA damage, cancer biology, telomerase activity, hormonal regulations, biological activity studies of drug candidate molecules and elucidation of their mechanisms of action, effects of free radicals in various pathological conditions, oxidative stress mechanisms, antioxidant systems, antioxidant molecules, oxidative DNA damage, in vivo experimental animal studies, development of new protein purification techniques, drug-enzyme interactions, enzyme inhibition and metalloenzymes, immobilization studies.

Compulsory Courses

• ECZ-207 Biochemistry I
• ECZ-206 Biochemistry II
• ECZ-208 Biochemistry Lab.
• ECZ-229 Molecular Biology
• ECZ-315 Clinical Biochemistry

Elective Courses

• ECZ-246 Vitamins
• ECZ-248 Special Topics in Molecular Biology
• ECZ-250 Molecular Applications in Forensic Biology
• ECZ-318 Hormone Biochemistry
• ECZ-320 Bioactivity Tests
• ECZ-233 Nutritional Biochemistry
• ECZ-321 Signal Transmission
• ECZ-323 Cancer Biochemistry
• ECZ-325 Protein Structure and Activity Relationship
• ECZ-427 Recombinant DNA techniques
• ECZ-441 Enzymology
• ECZ-511 Current Molecular Biotechnology Applications
• ECZ-513 Molecular Biology of Hereditary Diseases
• ECZ-515 Enzymes and Antioxidants in Multidrug Resistance
• ECZ-547 Bacterial Genetics