Assoc. Prof. ÖZLEM TUĞÇE ÇİLİNGİR KAYA

Özlem Tuğçe Çilingir-Kaya, who was born in 1983 in Istanbul, is "Associate Professor" in Histology and Embryology Department – Marmara University, since 2022. She began her academic career as a research assistant from 2009 until 2016 in the same department and in 2016 she took the "lecturer" position in her department. Between 2018 and 2022, she continued working as "Assistant Professor".

She received her master's degree in Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Histology and Embryology Department in 2008, then she received her Ph.D. degree in Histology and Embryology Department, Marmara University School of Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences in the area of neuroscience in 2015. She gained a grant from YÖK and worked as a visiting graduate student in Oregon Health and Science University, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience and Pathology, Portland, USA during her Ph.D. in 2014. She attended several courses and workshops during her education, one of the most important is the course “Fundamentals and Applications of Fluorescence Microscopy in Modern Cell Biology” organized by American Society for Cell Biology and Koc University in 2012 by getting the bursary from Turkish Society for Electron Microscopy. As an invited speaker, she presented 4 seminars for Istanbul University, Maltepe University and Turkish Society for Electron Microscopy. She has over 30 articles in national and international journals. She is affiliated to 6 national and international societies. She has 6 scientific awards from national and international organizations. The last one is the “Young Histochemist” award from "International Federation of the Societies for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry". She continues her studies mainly on neurogenesis, microbiota, gender difference and immunoelectron microscopic techniques, and she also continues immunohistochemical and histopathological research.