The Water Institute of Turkey will contribute as a project partner together with Marmara University Department of Environmental Engineering, General Directorate of Food and Control Istanbul Pendik Veterinary Control Institute and Health Sciences University International Medical Faculty to the project “Establishment of a SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance System for Public Health Using Wastewater Sludge Monitoring”, which is entitled to be supported by Istanbul Medipol University International Medical Faculty and China Capital Medical University within the framework of the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Protocol between TÜBİTAK and China National Natural Science Fund (NSFC). Dr. Halil Kurt, a faculty member at our center, is working as a researcher in the project.

The 1001 project titled “Identification, Biochemical Characterization and Biotechnological Applications of New Xylanase Enzymes with Different Extremophilic Properties Originating from Anatolian Water Buffalo Rumen through Sequence Homology Based Metagenomics Approach” with the number KBAG 121Z943, which was carried out by Dr. Yusuf Sürmeli from Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, where Dr. Halil Kurt, a faculty member working in our center, is a researcher, was decided to be scientifically supported in the 2nd semester of 2021 within the scope of the Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program.

Dr. Lecturer Özge Erdemli from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Başkent University. Prof. Dr. Özge Erdemli from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Başkent University visited our Center as a guest researcher between August 23 – September 3, 2021, hosted by one of our researchers, Dr. Assist. She visited our Center hosted by our researcher Dr. Bengi Yılmaz.