Dilek Özlem

Özlem Dilek

received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from State University of New York at Binghamton, USA in 2009. In 2010, she was honored with the prestigious ACS Zappert Award and several national travel awards. She started her postdoctoral research at Cornell University, NY and then continued her collaborative postdoc research at UNC-Chapel Hill and SUNY, USA (2009-2012). Her current research focused on developmentand applications of novel fluorescent chemical probes for site-specificimaging of small molecules inside living cells for dynamic visualization of biomolecules and bioorthogonal chemistry and molecular cancer research.She has authored and co-authored more than 30 articles in international journals and conferences, Dr. Dilek joined the School of Medicine faculty at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University in 2013.

Selected publications Dilek O., Sorrentino M. A., Bane, S. “Intramolecular Catalysis of Hydrazone Formation by Phosphate”SynLett, 2016, 27(09): 1335-1338

Dilek O., Bane SL. “Turn on Fluorescent Probes for Selective Targeting of Aldehydes” Chemosensors2016,4(1),5; doi:10.3390/chemosensors4010005

Dilek O., Lei Z., Mukherjee K., Bane, S. “Rapid formation of a stable boron–nitrogen heterocycle in dilute, neutral aqueous solution for bioorthogonal coupling reactions” Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 16992-16995.

Dilek O.; Bane SL, “Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of protein labeling of water soluble 3,5-disubstituted boron dipyrromethenes.”Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters,2009, 19, 6911.

Dilek O.; Bane SL, “Synthesis of fluorescent boron dipyrromethenes for bioorthogonal labeling” Tetrahedron Letters, 2008, 49, 1413.