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Early Life
Nihal Altan-Bonnet was born in Ankara, Turkey. Her father was a party of the Turkish Foreign Service, as as a result of this, Altan-Bonnet traveled all around the world and lived in various countries. Her father’s different postings left her constantly having to move around rather frequently during her youth. At the age of fourteen, she moved to New York City. Though her family only stayed in New York for about five years before leaving, Altan-Bonnet decided to stay and pursue a degree the sciences.

After her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Alton-Bonnet knew that she wanted to study Biology and the way it works. Bonnet received her Bachelor’s Degree in Cell Biology and Chemistry from Hunter College. She then went forth to receive her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Rockefeller University. Upon doing so, she started practicing her post-doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health in Membrane Biophysics, Cell Biology and Metabolism.

Studies
Nihal Altan- Bonnet studies virus host- interface. She is attempting to find the drive in viruses as to why they want to replicate themselves in the host. Once the host is found the viruses transforms the cell into what fits its needs. She is studying why the virus does this and what the needs are. By finding the needs of the virus over many different types of viruses she will be able to identify the needs there will be a possibility that therapeutics can be develop to end replication of these viruses. (Tassa website)

Occupations
Cell Biologist Selected by obama to receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University 09/2006- present Investigations into the biogenesis of secretory trafficking organelles in the cell cycle using quantitative live-cell imaging. Research advisor: Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, NICHD, NIH 10/1999- 05/2005			Investigations into multidrug resistance in tumor cells. Dissertation research advisor: Dr. Sanford M. Simon Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University 01/1993- 06/1998	Studies on Synapsin proteins. Research advisor: Dr. Paul Greengard. Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University 06/1992- 12/ 1992		Studies into Drosophila Dorsal-Ventral patterning.Research advisor: Dr. Robert Delotto. Dept. of Molecular Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 09/1991- 06/1992 Studies into Drosophila Body segmentation patterning. Research advisor: Dr. Leslie Pick. Dept. of Molecular Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine 06/ 1990- 06/1991