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Lale Akarun elected Vice President of International Association of Pattern Recognition
Lale Akarun from Boğaziçi University was elected as the vice president of International Association of Pattern Recognition.
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“Understanding the molecular basis of symbiotic nitrogen fixation is the key to more sustainable agriculture in the future”
Modern agriculture completely depends on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, which are produced from non-renewable energy sources. These fertilizers currently support lives of ca. 7 billion people on Earth, but will be depleted within the next 150 years. Besides the non-sustainable nature of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, they destroy soil and water ecosystems and contribute to the greenhouse effect (global warming). The natural alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizers is symbiotic nitrogen fixation, which exists in limited evolutionary branches of the plant kingdom, notably in the legume family. Legumes can fix atmospheric nitrogen in cooperation with bacteria called rhizobia, which live in so-called root nodules. Unfortunately, most plants that constitute the human diet have no ability to fix their own nitrogen. The project supported by the TÜBİTAK 1001 program started recently at Boğaziçi University for understanding this natural nitrogen fixation mechanism in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Dr. Igor Kryvoruchko from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and his team will realize a systematic functional analysis of alternative proteins involved in symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the model legume. Understanding the molecular basis of this process and using that information in plant breeding programs will uncouple the agriculture from synthetic nitrogen fertilizers in the future. We conducted an interview with Dr. Kryvoruchko for the details of his project.
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Dr. Paolo Maranzana: “The production and circulation of pottery can reveal how people faced global crises in ancient times”
For understanding the long journey of humanity, archaeology has taken advantage of many disciplines ranging from natural sciences to social sciences. Modern technologies such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have also helped archaeology to locate the archaeological materials into wider contexts. Dr. Paolo Maranzana, who recently joined the Department of History in Boğaziçi University is conducting research that benefits from contemporary approaches to archaeology. In his project titled “Manufacturing Goods: The Case of Late Roman Pottery Production and Circulation in Western-Central Anatolia,” Dr. Maranzana will research how economic independence contributed to the survival of Late Roman cities (4th – 7th c. AD) in Central Anatolia in the face of large-scale crises that affected the Roman Empire. By using GIS, he will also visualize and analyze further the connection between production centers and the circulation of ceramic fragments in a broad region.
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Interview with Raja Abillama: A journey from sociocultural anthropology to sociology…
Raja Abillama joined the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University in 2019. Worked as an architecture for a short time and later trained as a sociocultural anthropologist at the City University of New York, currently he teaches courses on anthropology, secularism, and the Middle East in Boğaziçi University. Abillama answers our questions on his areas of interest, his teaching experience in COVID-19 times, the meaning of ‘’secularism’’ in Lebanese political context and the hard times that his home country Lebanon goes through…
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Juho Korhonen: ‘’Democracy as a political process is only meaningful if it has the capacity to challenge existing political structures’’
Assistant Professor Juho Korhonen joined Boğaziçi University Department of Sociology recently. After having experienced different academic environments and ‘’traditions’’starting from Finland, later Germany, Russia and USA, Mr. Korhonen says it was the right moment to join Boğaziçi University when he saw the job ad of Sociology Department last year.
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Boğaziçi University develops tool to diagnose Covid-19
Bogazici University developed a stethoscope which can analyze sound via artificial intelligence and diagnose lung diseases, including the novel coronavirus.
