Our fourth-year Mechanical Engineering student Beyza Dağhan received the MDPI Separations Poster Presentation Award for her poster presentation at the 31st International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid-Phase Separation Techniques (ITP 2025), which she attended under the supervision of our faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Doğan Güzel.
The study titled “On-chip Cyclotide Separation from Plant Extracts” is supported by the Scientific Research Projects (BAP) Coordination Unit of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and the TÜBİTAK 2219 Program. Within the scope of the project, two microfluidic chips with different designs were developed, and the separation of cyclotides from plant extracts was successfully achieved in a laboratory environment using cost-effective and practical methods. These microchips, designed using electric current and selective permeability structures, were tested in the laboratories of our university.
The study of our student was selected for an award among more than one hundred posters presented at the conference. The project also received contributions from Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hossein Hashempour (Azerbaijan Shahid University), Dr. Aliakbar Ebrahimi (AYBU Biomedical Engineering), Dr. Reza Didarian, Zahra Zendeh (PhD student at AYBU Faculty of Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine), and Mesut Bora Akdoğan, one of our Mechanical Engineering graduate students.
