Postdoctoral fellow bikem.akten@childrens.harvard.edu

Bikem Akten completed her BS in Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey and received her PhD in Neurosciences from Tufts University Sackler School of Medicine. She is currently a joint postdoctoral fellow working in the laboratories of Dr. Mustafa Sahin and Dr. Judith Steen. Her research involves characterizing proteins and mRNA targets that interact with the SMN protein in the nervous system.

Publications:

Akten B.*, Tangredi MM.*, Jauch E., Roberts MA, Ng F., Raabe T., Jackson FR., (In submission, November 2008) Ribosomal S6 Kinase cooperates with Casein Kinase 2 to regulate the Drosophila circadian oscillator.

Akten B., Jauch E., Genova G., Kim E. Y., Edery I., Raabe T., Jackson F. R., (March 2003) A role for CK2 in the Drosophila circadian oscillator. Nature Neuroscience, Vol 6, No 3, pp251-257.

Akten B., Suh J., Genova G., Roberts M., Jackson F. R., (Sept-Oct 2002) RNA interference from a CAX trinucleotide repeat. Genesis, Vol. 34, No 1-2, pp156-159.

DiBartolomeis, S. M., Akten B., Genova G., Roberts M. A., Jackson, F. R. (July 2002) Molecular analysis of the Drosophila miniature-dusky (m-dy) gene complex: m-dy mRNAs encode transmembrane proteins with similarity to C.elegans CUTICULIN. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. Vol 267, No 5, pp564-576.

Jackson, F.R., Schroeder, A.J., Roberts, M.A., McNeil, G.P., Kume, K., and Akten, B. (2001) Cellular and molecular mechanisms of circadian control in insects. J. Insect Physiol. Vol 47, pp 833-842.