Ipek Gassaloglu Guler

Ipek earned her B.Sc in Genetics and Bioinformatics from Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul. Later on, she moved to Berlin to major in M.Sc. Molecular Medicine at the Charité Universitätsmedizin.

During this period, she worked with stembryo models such as Gastruloids and Trunk-like structures (TLS) and performed her thesis on “Molecular recording of mouse embryonic stem cell-derived TLS” at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics under the supervision of Dr. Jesse Veenvliet and Adriano Bolondi. After graduating from Charité, she spent one year in the same lab as a Research Assistant to understand the effects of hypoxia in development by using the gastruloid model.

She started her PhD in Yale BSS program in September 2023. In a nutshell, she is intrigued to understand mammalian development and to decipher how cellular processes are regulated to ultimately give rise to a whole organism.