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Dilek Colak

Dilek Colak is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Neuroscience in Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, USA and the head of Colak Laboratory at Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is known for her work on regulatory mechanisms of RNA and protein expression during neuronal development. Her findings showed, for the first time, the mechanism of RNA-directed gene silencing in Fragile-X Syndrome during development,.

Education

Dilek Colak graduated from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey with a BSc in Biology in 2003. She received her PhD degree from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany in 2008. She was a postdoctoral associate between 2009 and 2014 and research associate between 2014 and 2015 in Pharmacology at Dr. Samie Jeffrey's laboratory, at Pharmacology Department of Weill Cornell Medical College.

Her Work

During her postdoctoral training, she investigated mechanisms of using embryonic stem cells which were published in leading science journals as Science and Cell. Currently, her laboratory focuses on elucidating roles of the RNAs in neuronal development and neurodevelopmental diseases such as autism and schizophrenia.

Awards and Honors

2014 Blavatnik Award Finalist ,

2011 Druckenmiller Fellowship, New York Stem Cell Foundation

2009 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Fellowship