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Ali Ertürk

Ali Ertürk is a Turkish neuroscientist currently conducting his PhD study at Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany.

He was born (28 September 1980) in Karasu which is a small town of Sakarya in Turkey. He studied primary and high schools in his home city and moved to capital Ankara to study molecular biology and genetics at Bilkent University (1998-2003).

Since October 2003, he is a graduate student in Dr. Frank Bradke’s laboratory and working on underlying cellular mechanisms of non-growing axonal endings called “retraction bulbs” to better understand the reasons of failure after spinal cord injury.