Yusuf TUTAR
Address:
University of Health Sciences,
Istanbul, Turkey.
Research Interests:
- Molecular Cancer Research and epigenetic (RT-PCR and Microarray).
 - MicroRNA, pseudogenes, and transfection.
 - Prion, translation termination in eukaryotes, and transcription initiation in prokaryotes.
 - Investigating structure-function relationship of biological macromolecules with biochemical, biophysical, genetics and molecular biological methods.
 - Recombinant DNA technology, molecular sub-cloning, transformation and protein expression.
 - Drug design, docking, molecular dynamics.
 - Nanoparticles for drug targeting.
 - Protein purification (Heat shock, Catabolite repressor and S100P proteins) and characterisation (Spectroscopy: Fluorescence, Luminescence, CD, FTIR; Calorimetry: NanoDSC and ITC; Chromatography: HPLC and FPLC; Other techniques: MALDI-TOF, GC, SPR)
 
Biography:
- Dr. Yusuf TUTAR is the Head of Biochemistry Division and the Head of Basic Sciences Department at Faculty of Pharmacy, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas Turkey.
 - Dr. Tutar is also the Head of Biomedical Engineering Program at the same university.
 - He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at Oregon State University and Texas Tech University respectively.
 - He pursued his postdoctoral study at National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIDDK), USA.
 - His research focuses on Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology with specialization in the fields of protein structure-function, protein folding, prion, microrna, pseudogenes, molecular cancer, proteomics, genomics, protein expression and characterization by spectroscopic and calorimetric methods.
 - Dr. TUTAR is currently faculty at Health Sciences University, Istanbul.