Research

  • Vector bio-ecology (mosquito, sand fly, tick, biting midges)
  • Effect of climate changes on vector organisms
  • Taxonomy
  • Functional vector ecology
  • Vector-pathogen interaction
  • Population genetic of vector organisms
  • Paratransgenesis methods and design
  • SIT (Steril Insect Techiques)
  • Geometric morphometrics
  • Risk analysis and modeling
  • Niche modeling
  • Full equipments climate rooms
  • Full equipments climate chambers
  • Molecular and genetic laboratories
  • Image analysis laboratory
  • Electrophoresis systems
  • BSL 2 Laboratory (in Medical Faculty)
  • Artificial feeding systems
  • Taxonomy laboratories
  • Insecticide resistance laboratory
  • GIS laboratory
  • DNA bank (mosquito and sand fly)
  • Dry specimens bank (mosquito and sand fly)
  • Image bank (mosquito and sand fly)
  • Sand fly and mosquito colonies

Universities

  • Charles University, Czechia
  • Montpellier University, France
  • Aix-Marseille University, France
  • Oxford University, United Kingdom
  • Novi Sad University, Serbia
  • Cluj Napoca University, Romania
  • University of Primorska, Slovenia
  • Reims Champagne Ardenne University, France
  • Murcia University, Spain
  • Cyril and Methodius University, North Macedonia
  • University of California Riverside, USA
  • Lebanese University, Lebanon
  • Ege University, Turkey
  • İstanbul Cerrahpaşa University, Turkey
  • Tekirdag Namık Kemal University, Turkey
  • Ankara University, Turkey
  • Kars Kafkas University, Turkey
  • Sağlık Bilimleri University, Turkey

Research Institutions

  • Institut de Recherce pour le Developpement (IRD), France
  • Institut Pasteur, France
  • Institut Pasteur, Algeria
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS), Italy
  • Robert Koch Institute, Germany
  • Walter Reed Institute Biosystematic Unit (WRBU), USA
  • UN-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Austria
  • Centro Agricoltura Ambiente (CAA), Italy
  • The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey “Determination of Stomach Microbial Diversity of Phlebotomus tobbi Natural Populations and Investigation of Its Effect on Leishmania infantum Metacyclogenesis. ”  (Project No: 218Z030)
  • Great Challange Canada ”Research on spatial repellents in North East Syria”
  • IAEA-International Atomic Energy Agency “Integrated Control Project of Aedes aegypti population with SIT (Steril Insect Techniques) in North Anatolia, Turkey (Project No: TUR 5026).
  • EU-Health Programmes-MediLabSecure II. One health network for the prevention of vector-borne diseases around the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions.
  • EU-HORIZON-HLTH-2021-ENVHLTH-02-03. Climate monitoring and decision support framework for sand fly-borne diseases detection and mitigation with cost-benefit and climate-policy measures. (Prowect no. 101057690)
  • Wellcome Trust Digital Technology Development Awards (Climate-Sensitive Infectious Disease Modelling): VEClim-Climate-driven vector-borne disease risk assessment
  • EU-FP7- HEALTH-2.3.3-1 EDENEXT “Biology and control of vector-borne infections in Europe”, 01/01/2011- 30/06/2015.
  • EU-COST-EurVecNeg “European network for neglected vectors and vector-borne infections”, 04/11/2013-03/11/2017.
  • OC/EFSA/AHAW/2013/02 ”VectorNet project (European network for sharing data on the geographic distribution of arthropod vectors transmitting human and animal disease agents)”, 2014-2018.
  • IAEA PROJECT RER5023 – EVT1903657“Home Based Assignment (HBA) To develop textual and electronic keys for identification of sand flies”, Ankara, Turkey, 10 days, during the period 14 – 24 June 2019 RE: IAEA TALEO Requisition No.: TAL-TCEU20190611-004.
  • The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. “Parasitological, Molecular and Geographical Epidemiological Approach in the Control of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Turkey”, 01.09.2015 – 01.03.2019 (Project no. 114S999).
  • Hacettepe University Scientific Research Project. “Determination of the Taxonomic Status of Phlebotomus neglectus Tonnoir, 1921 and Phlebotomus syriacus Adler and Theodor, 1931 (Diptera: Psychodidae) Species Distributed in Turkey ”, 2011-2020. (Project no. 010 01 601 001-162)
  • Hacettepe University Scientific Research Project. ”Analysis of Sand Fly and Mosquito Species Spreading in Turkey by Using DNA Barcoding Method”, 2016-2016.(Project no. FBB -2016-10192).
  • GEIS Research Project Award “Identification and incrimination of mosquito and sand fly vectors of viral diseases and pathogens present in refugee zones of the Turkish and Jordanian borders with Syria” (Smithsonian-WBRU-Hacettepe University) (Project No: X81XWH18C0190)
  • IAEA-TUR 5026 ”Conducting a pilot Programme on Integrated Management of Aedes aegyptiincluding SIT” (International Atomic Energy Agency).
  • MediLabSecureII: “Preventing Vector Borne Diseases around the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions by creating new networks”.
  • Paratransgenesis as a weapon against leishmaniasis (PartoLeish). European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) Cofund program – Co-Funded Brain Circulation Scheme2 (CoCirculation2) (Project No: 121C042).
  • EU-CA-COST- 17108. AIM COST. Aedes invasive Mosquitoes.