As a member of the Job Description Emergency team, it fulfills its duties defined in the University Emergency Plan and related documents in the Environment and OHS Directive in mySU. Education Physics License, Boğaziçi University, 1974; Biophysics Doctorate, University of London (England), 1978. Research Areas Molecular biology and investigation of structure of biological molecules using synchrotron X-ray scattering; investigation of structure-function relationships in fibrous molecules including chromatin, actin etc .; investigation of structures of metal-binding proteins Memberships Biophysical Society, American Association for Advancement in Science, Turkish Biophysical Society.
RECEIVED DIPLOMACY AWARD IN SCIENCE
Sayers was awarded the 2019 Diploma in Science Award by the USA Science Progress Association (AAAS) for his work together with his four teammates.
Sayers graduated from the Physics Department of Boğaziçi University in 1974 and later completed his doctorate in Biophysics at the University of London.
Zehra Sayers is also a critic of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL), a member of the Turkish Accelerator Center Project (TAC) Scientific Advisory Committee and EMBL Hamburg Project Evaluation Panel.
Sayers' scientific studies during his academic career were supported by institutions such as the Swedish Natural Sciences Research Council, TUBITAK, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), UNESCO, and the Jülich Research Center.
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