Date of the presentation: November 5th (Wednesday), at 15:30 Universiteto st. 10 akademija, Kaunas auditorium 431
Abstract
Biopolymers have a wide use in bioengineering due to their antimicrobial, antioxidant, biocampatible and non-toxic properties. In this seminar, production of three dimensional biomaterials from different organisms together with their characterization and application areas will be presented. The biomaterials that will be mentioned in this presentation will be a summary of our previous work. And these biomaterials are chitin, chitosan, cellulose and biosilica. The application areas of the produced 3D materials are i) drug loading and releasing properties, ii) food coating to increase the shelf life, iii) bio-cup production for healthy weight loss, iv) biological mesh samples to be used in surgical operations, v) production of multifunctional porous bioactive micro silica beads from a sponge for biomedical applications.
Nature has been producing fascinating materials since millions of years currently under explored. My primary research goals are i) to discover these secret materials in the nature (from plant or animal bodies), ii) to characterize them in detail by the state of the art techniques, iii) to solve how these materials naturally assemble in nano scale, iv) to establish inter disciplinary collaborations to explore the uses of these materials in various applications and v) to transfer them in to the industry for the benefit of the society.
Short biography
Professor Dr. Murat Kaya received his BSc degree from Karadeniz Technical University in 2003. He completed his Master’s Degree (2005) and Ph.D. (2008) at Ankara University, Institute of Science, Department of Biology. He worked at Gent University (Belgium) for 1 year under the Erasmus Program in 2006. He studied at BARRALAB for 1 year in London Imperial College (UK) under the Lifelong Learning Program in 2008. He worked as a visiting scientist at AMEMIYA LAB at University of California Merced for 1 year under TÜBİTAK 2219 program in 2017-2018. He was awarded as a young scientist of the year (2018) in Turkey by “Bilim Kahramanları Derneği”. Dr. Kaya worked as a visiting scientist at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK as a visiting professor funded by Royal Society and TUBITAK 2219. And then Dr. Kaya joined to Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Basque Country, Spain funded by Maria Zambrano Fellowship in 2023. After, Dr. Kaya worked as a Head of New Product Development at CuanTec Ltd. Scotland, UK for one year. Dr. Kaya is currently working as a faculty member at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.
