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Elanur Yilmaz
@elanuryilmaz.bsky.social
scientist/postdoctoral researcher
origin 🇹🇷 roasts in🗽🇺🇸 #zebrafish #alzheimer’sdisease #humangenetics #neurogenetics
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An exciting PhD opportunity in a great collaboration between
@noelresearchlab.bsky.social
and my lab looking at heart infections in zebrafish. Details below. Deadline is the 4th December. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Have you heard of the Zebrafish Rock! Slack Pro tankspace? Sponsored by ZFIN, it acts as the premier source for questions and queries for the #zebrafish community and beyond! If you are keen to join, please fill out this Google form at our website: linktr.ee/zebrafishrock
Zebrafish Rock! | Linktree
Award-winning home tank for all things zebrafish!
linktr.ee
September 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hey academics, after how many unsuccessful attempts were you able to secure funding?
Is there any rejection cut-off?
Asking for a friend…🥶
August 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Academic growth is best understood not as a linear or exponential curve, but as a process of dispersal—spreading ideas, people, and collaborations outward into new domains.
#notetoself it’s dispersal, should be dispersal.
August 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
You know how sometimes situations hit different and suddenly it’s high time? If you know, you know!
#academicnomad
August 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Y-Maze in fish?
Y not? :))
July 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This summer, I’m mentoring three high school students, and they’re absolute rockstars! Three brilliant, budding minds who are eager to dive into STEM. The insightful questions they ask and how quickly they grow are simply astounding—it’s impossible not to be impressed.
July 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Biological Age and Age Acceleration Predict Alzheimer's Disease Plasma Biomarker Levels https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.22.25328181v1
May 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Sex-Specific Genetic Drivers of Memory, Executive Functioning, and Language Performance in Older Adults https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.26.25328369v1
May 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Check our latest preprint out!
Single-nucleus multiomics in brains from Hispanic individuals reveal APOE-ε4-driven disruption of focal adhesion signaling in the presence of cerebrovascular pathology https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.21.25328040v1
May 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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We identified unique molecular changes in various cell types that regulate the interaction between brain cells and blood vessels. An important cell type, #astrocytes, adopt a hyper-adhesive, mechanically rigid states at the #vascular interface with #APOE-ε4.
May 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
In no language I speak can I find the words to express my feelings! First “Yilmaz et al.” of my postdoctoral period is now out as preprint 🎉🥳 after all those sleepless nights and analysis even in my dreams (😅), we identified a conserved molecular signature in astrocytes. Details in repost 👇🏻
May 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Some exciting news! NCBI has finished the annotation pipeline for our new #zebrafish reference sequence GRCz12tu:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/annot...

This is a big step up in data depth and quality and should be super helpful going forward.
Danio rerio Annotation ReportTwitterFacebookLinkedInGitHubNCBI Insights BlogTwitterFacebookYoutube
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
May 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I cannot be the only one who thinks zebrafish brain sections look like stormtroopers, right?
#zebrafish #stormtrooper #maytheforcebewithyou
May 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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We are pleased to announce Beattie Award Submissions are now open! Postdocs & grad students entering their third year are invited to submit a nomination by May 19th, 2025. View detailed award information here:
Christine Beattie Award | IZFS - International Zebrafish Society
About the Award
www.izfs.org
May 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Optimised genome editing for precise DNA insertion and substitution using Prime Editors in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.23.650248v1
April 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I think I am my own “reviewer 2” 😅 I don’t like watching my presentation recordings but I should admit that it’s very useful for the progress. I know what I can do and I can see how close I was, and how I can improve myself. I took my notes and looking forward to having my next conference talk 😊
April 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I cannot share as “then and now” but I can share as “co-chair and presenter” as for the first time attandee of #adpd2025 does it count? 😅
April 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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A study in Nature suggests that parrots and humans may use similar brain mechanisms to produce complex sounds. The study uncovers a specialized brain region in budgerigars that works in a similar way to speech-related regions in the human brain. https://go.nature.com/43VkmC5 🧪
March 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
All of them are wearing masks not because of pepper spray but being afraid of not to find a job if their faces are seen in one of these pics when they graduate, even they don’t know whether their diploma will still be valid! I’m so proud of all of them! They are shining diamonds!
And “we are clean”!
Turkish youth want justice and democratic principles back at their core.
Protests in Turkey continue. Reportedly, they are now happening all over the country, not just Istanbul.
March 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
There is no attack still they use pepper spray!
One more time:
Turkish youth want justice and democratic principles back at their core.
Wowza, look at this picture from demonstrations in Turkey www.reuters.com/world/middle...
March 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Turkey 2013 Turkey 2025
(Osman Orsal, Reuters) (Umit Bektas)
March 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Turkish youth want justice and democratic principles back at their core.
Protests in Turkey continue. Reportedly, they are now happening all over the country, not just Istanbul.
March 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Women are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as men. A feature in Nature Medicine reports how the changes to the female brain during menopause, along with social and cultural factors, might affect disease risk. #medsky #alzsky 🧪
Women twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as men - but scientists do not know why - Nature Medicine
Changes to the female brain during menopause, together with social and cultural factors, might affect disease risk.
go.nature.com
March 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#FluorescenceFriday: a simple pattern based on a revisit/re-design of the #zebrafish tbx6l promoter region as GFP reporter, originally uncovered by Szeto & Kimelman (2004) to label paraxial mesoderm.
(pIGLET14a-harbored tbx6l:EGFP F1, pic and line by Amanda Garfield)
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM