Beyza Dağhan, a fourth-year student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the MDPI Separations Poster Presentation Award for her poster presentation at the 31st International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid-Phase Separation Techniques (ITP 2025), which she attended under the supervision of our faculty member, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Doğan Güzel.
The study, titled "On-chip Cyclotide Separation from Plant Extracts," is supported by the Scientific Research Projects (BAP) Coordination Office of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and the TÜBİTAK 2219 program. As part of the project, two different designs of microfluidic chips were developed, and the separation of cycloids from plant extracts was successfully achieved in a laboratory environment using low-cost and applicable methods. These microchips, designed using electric current and selective permeability structures, were tested in our university laboratories.
Our student's work was selected from over one hundred posters presented at the conference and earned the award. The project was also supported by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hossein Hashempour (Azerbaijan Shahid University), Dr. Aliakbar Ebrahimi (AYBU Biomedical Engineering), Dr. Reza Didarian, Zahra Zendeh (AYBU Faculty of Medicine Translational Medicine Department PhD student) and Mesut Bora Akdoğan, one of our Mechanical Engineering graduate students, contributed.
