Ali Ertürk
Ali Ertürk (born September 1980, Turkey) is a neuroscientist, inventor, and artist living in Munich, Germany. He is the director of a new Helmholtz Institute on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (iTERM) in Munich since July 2019.[1] After his undergraduate study at Bilkent University in Ankara, he joined Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology for his PhD and Genentech Inc. for postdoctoral research.
His is known for invention of DISCO tissue transparency technology and deep learning based analysis of large 3D images in biomedicine.[2][3][4][5][6][7] The methods collectively target to analyze cellular and molecular details of whole organs and bodies.[8][9][10] Ertürk is also affiliated with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich[11] and University of Rochester.[12]
Honors and awards
- 2020 Scientific and personal career profiled in Nature Methods [13]
- 2020 ERC Consolidator Grant, European Research Council [14]
- 2019 Cure Alzheimer’s Foundation researcher [15]
- 2019 Mentioned as one of the 7 scientists in “Brain gain instead of brain drain in Germany” by Focus Magazine[16]
- 2018 NIH RO1[17]
- 2017 Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Award[18]
- 2016 DFG Research Grant
- 2016 Member of Helmholtz Alliance ICEMED
- 2014 ERA-Net Award
- 2014 Offered Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from Humboldt Foundation
- 2004–2007 Marie Curie PhD fellowship
- 1998–2003 Full education scholarship awarded by Bilkent University
Art life
Ali Ertürk is also known for his landscape and cityscapes photographs.[19][20][21] He had photo art 3 exhibitions (2008 Munich, 2012 San Francisco, 2015 Munich).[22]
References
- "Institutes / Research Units". www.helmholtz-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
- Ertürk, Ali; Mauch, Christoph P; Hellal, Farida; Förstner, Friedrich; Keck, Tara; Becker, Klaus; Jährling, Nina; Steffens, Heinz; Richter, Melanie (January 2012). "Three-dimensional imaging of the unsectioned adult spinal cord to assess axon regeneration and glial responses after injury". Nature Medicine. 18 (1): 166–171. doi:10.1038/nm.2600. ISSN 1546-170X. PMID 22198277.
- Ertürk, Ali; Becker, Klaus; Jährling, Nina; Mauch, Christoph P; Hojer, Caroline D; Egen, Jackson G; Hellal, Farida; Bradke, Frank; Sheng, Morgan (November 2012). "Three-dimensional imaging of solvent-cleared organs using 3DISCO". Nature Protocols. 7 (11): 1983–1995. doi:10.1038/nprot.2012.119. ISSN 1750-2799. PMID 23060243.
- Pan, Chenchen; Cai, Ruiyao; Quacquarelli, Francesca Paola; Ghasemigharagoz, Alireza; Lourbopoulos, Athanasios; Matryba, Paweł; Plesnila, Nikolaus; Dichgans, Martin; Hellal, Farida (October 2016). "Shrinkage-mediated imaging of entire organs and organisms using uDISCO". Nature Methods. 13 (10): 859–867. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3964. ISSN 1548-7105. PMID 27548807.
- Cai, Ruiyao; Pan, Chenchen; Ghasemigharagoz, Alireza; Todorov, Mihail I.; Foerstera, Benjamin; Zhao, Shan; Bhatia, Harsharan S.; Mrowka, Leander; Theodorou, Delphine (2018-07-23). "Panoptic vDISCO imaging reveals neuronal connectivity, remote trauma effects and meningeal vessels in intact transparent mice". bioRxiv: 374785. doi:10.1101/374785.
- Ertürk, Ali; Nedergaard, Maiken; Kerschensteiner, Martin; Menze, Bjoern; Liesz, Arthur; Bechmann, Ingo; Liebscher, Sabine; Steinke, Hanno; Benakis, Corinne (2018-12-31). "Panoptic imaging of transparent mice reveals whole-body neuronal projections and skull–meninges connections". Nature Neuroscience. 22 (2): 317–327. doi:10.1038/s41593-018-0301-3. ISSN 1546-1726. PMC 6494982. PMID 30598527.
- Erturk, Ali; Zeidler, Reinhard; Menze, Bjoern; Garvalov, Boyan K.; Coronel, Javier; Reimer, Madita Alice; Ghasemi, Alireza; Neubeck, Bettina von; Gondi, Gabor (2019-02-05). "Deep learning reveals cancer metastasis and therapeutic antibody targeting in whole body". bioRxiv: 541862. doi:10.1101/541862.
- Fleur, Nicholas St (2016-08-22). "Seeing Through to a Mouse's Nervous System". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- Hernandez, Daniela (2016-08-22). "New Technique Shrinks, Makes Small Animals Transparent". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- "A 'revolutionary' new technology can turn mice clear — and might one day map your brain". Business Insider Deutschland (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- weingart, antonia. "ISD RESEARCH". research.isd-muc.de. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- "Personnel - Nedergaard Lab - University of Rochester Medical Center". www.urmc.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- Marx, Vivien (2020-04-01). "Ali Ertürk". Nature Methods. 17 (4): 357–357. doi:10.1038/s41592-020-0798-8. ISSN 1548-7105.
- "Press Release: SyNergy member Ali Ertürk receives ERC Consolidator Grant - Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology - LMU Munich". www.synergy-munich.de. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- "Ali Ertürk". Cure Alzheimer's Fund. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- Online, FOCUS. "Die Rückkehr der Superhirne". FOCUS Online (in German). Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- weingart, antonia. "ISD RESEARCH". research.isd-muc.de. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- weingart, antonia. "ISD RESEARCH". research.isd-muc.de. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- "Ali Ertürk". www.biochem.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- "Ali Erturk". 500px.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- "Ali Erturk Photography". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- Martinsried, Annette Jäger (2015-11-05). "Mit eigenen Augen" [With your own eyes]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2018-03-27.