In this article, I will talk about my personal experience after Lockdown: Zoning, RAship, and Courses that need to be completed for PhD. — Merhabalar, dönem sonu yazılarımın birine daha hoşgeldiniz. Kendi kişisel deneyimlerinden bahsederek, Singapur’da daha özelde ise NUS Biyomedikal Mühendisliği’nde doktoraya dair size izlenimler sunacağım. Umarım, yardımcı oluyordur. Alanlar ve Zamanlar Ülke, biliyorsunuz ki Nisan-Haziran arası kendisini 2 aylığına dış dünyaya kapattı bu pandemi döneminde (Lockdown). …

Merhabalar, uzun süredir yazmıyordum. TEV-SINGA bursunun başvurusunu görünce, aklında sorusu olanlara belki bir faydam olur düşüncesi ile çok kısa, 3 ay 1 haftalık, tecrübemi sizinle paylaşmak istiyorum. Her ne kadar süre kısa olsa da burada doktora yapan kıymetli arkadaşlarım sayesinde kısa sürede çok şey öğrendiğimi düşünüyorum. Doktora Bursu Yetiyor Mu? Buranın para birimi Singapur…

What’s common between running a lab&projects vs. being a captain for a basketball team? — I have an idea that being part of a lab/project is like being part of a team game (However, interestingly, when I gave this example in my first grad school interview at 2016, I was misunderstood and they kindly let me go.). “Working together is as important as improving individual…

I have not run any bioinformatics analysis (except few R graphics), especially for sequencing data, for a very long time. Not sure I can be any sort of Jedi, but let’s try to train ourselves towards this goal (at least I love -including my struggles- in molecular biology and genetics, bioinformatics and after all, idea of being a scientist). — I have been working on developing few single cell assays for different contexts towards my PhD. I had lots of struggles for different aspects of the projects. Sometimes cells were so sensitive to any modification in condition, that sort of modifications were not suitable for your aim or those so…

NUS Graduate Student Society (NUSGSS) also organized a tshirt design competition. Here my designs are… — I do not have time (&energy) to spend much time on these. However, I keep trying (in amateur format) :D

Biraz R’a geri dönüş, biraz eğlence, biraz görsel. İlk şurada yayınlanmıştır: https://rsgturkey.com/tr/plot-plot-veri-gorsellestirme-zamanda-yolculuk/ — Geçtiğimiz yazıda (bkz: Plot plot veri görselleştirme: Volkan Plot), verimiz kadar onun nasıl sunulduğunun veriyi ve hikayeyi doğru anlamak açısından ne kadar önemli olduğundan bahsetmiştim. Bunun yanı sıra, aynı yazının devamında bir arkadaşımın sorusu üzerine, Volkan Plot nasıl çizilir ve nasıl yorumlanır ile (kendi yüksek lisans tezimden figürle) bir örnek…

I joined NUS store, “for students by students” themed design competition. Although none of them were selected, not even for voting, I would like to share them here, as a proof that I tried (to future-self)=D. — I was surely an amateur. I only used Power Point, Word and Excel =D During pandemic, our perception of the time has changed, so the habits. We might all have experienced that taking care of yourself is crucial to maintain a healhty academic and social life. …

During pandemic, I have changed my attitude towards PhD to the life long learning and exploration (finally, a real one!). — I tell myself that my life has officially started after 26. I mean first 15 years was childhood and purely driven by our families. Second 10 year was basically being an ignorant and dumb in big part of the life or ourselves, so full of trials and errors and also…

If you think PhD is hard, boring or research is mundane, well, my friends, I do not agree with you, especially if you have lots of opportunities in the school. — I found HERE Arts Festival organized by Centre of Arts(CFA) when I started PhD, at 2019-Aug. Thereafter I signed for membership (free+free advantages) of CFA at NUS. I wanted be away from where I stucked in my projects (also in the country) for a while during pandemic. Wanted to try…