Armagan Kocer
Professor
University of Groningen,
Netherlands
Biography
Armagan Kocer received her M.Sc. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) in biology from the Middle East Technical University (www.metu.edu.tr), Ankara, Turkey. A part of her Ph.D. work was conducted at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. George Robillard. In 2001 she joined the BioMade Technology Foundation in Groningen and worked as a researcher and later as a senior scientist. At the end of 2007, she received two prestigious personal grants from the Innovation of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO Vidi) and the European Research Council ERC Starting Grant. With these grants, she launched her research group at the University of Groningen. In 2014, she moved her research group at the University Medical Center Groningen. Her research focuses on ion channels in neurodegeneration, mechanosensing sensation at the molecular level, bio-sensors and hybrid-triggered drug transport systems. In 2012 and 2013 she received two or ERC Proof of Concept grants to develop transport medicine and biosensor technologies.
Research Interest
Functioning mechanism of ion channels, specifically, ion channels in neurodegenerative diseases, mechanosensitive ion channels, and viral ion channels Synthetic biology tools for probing the structural changes of ion channels and controlling their function Nanotechnology (Triggered drug delivery systems / Ion-channel-based biosensors)