PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name,Surname: Zahida Sultanova
E-mail: zsultanova@etu.edu.tr
Adress: TOBB ETÜ Teknoloji Merkezi 208 Söğütözü/Ankara

EDUCATION:
2004-2008 Ankara Ataturk High School, Turkey
2008-2009 English Preparatory School
2009-2013 Middle East Technical University (METU), TURKEY. (CGPA: 3.51/4.00)
2014-... TOBB University of Economics and Technology- Department of Micro and Nanotechnology (M.Sc)

PROJECTS INVOLVED: Special Project (effects of certain proteins in rat memory) in Neurophysiology Laboratory of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ewa Dogru.
Between: 01.10.2012 – 25.02.2013

INTERN: Ankara University Biotechnology Institute:
Between: 18.06.2012 – 27.07.2012

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Classical molecular biology techniques, cloning, plasmid DNA isolation ,agarose gel electrophoresis, bacterial transformation with plasmid DNA, human genomic DNA isolation, restriction enzyme digestion, southern transfer, the polymerase chain reaction, total RNA isolation from human blood cells, reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, SDS PAGE, thin layer chromatography, column chromatography, DNA hybridization, DNA extraction from animal tissue, Making crosses and testing Mendellian Genetics and beyond using Drosophila species in lab (monohybrid cross, linkage, backcross, dehybrid cross, gene interaction, evolution in laboratory population, sex linkage, gene interaction) observation of mutations caused by UV radiation, FTIR spectroscopy, biochemical tests used for identifying bacterial colonies (like methyl-red, voges-proskauer test, citrate utilization test etc), Gram Staining-Endospore Staining-Capsule Staining of bacteria, using Beckman Coulter Cappilary Electrophoresis (observing SSR peaks and reading the sequence), traditional PCR, Real-time PCR, RNA isolation, DNA isolation from plant tissue, Radial Arm Maze (rat memory), Western Blot, Microarray, creating gene knock-out in yeast cells