Arif
received his M.S. degree from Texas A&M University, College
Station, Texas in December 1996. After receiving his M.S. degree,
he started his Ph.D. program in January 1997 in the Department
of Biological Sciences at Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey where Arif worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
He earned his Ph.D. degree from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
in May 2002. His Ph.D. research was focused on the development
of genomic reagents and resources to study functional genomics
of channel catfish. Before joining the Cellular Reprogramming
Laboratory research he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University
of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Research
Interests:
Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Epigenomics, Nuclear Transfer
Cloning, Embryogenomics and Animal Biotechnology.
Recent
Publications:
1) Kocabas AM,
Crosby J, Ross PJ, Otu HH, Beyhan Z, Can H, Tam WL, Rosa GJ,
Halgren RG, Lim B, Fernandez E, Cibelli JB. 2006. The transcriptome
of human oocytes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
USA, 103(38): 14027–14032
2) Ozaslan D,
Wang S, Ahmed BA, Kocabas AM, McCastlain JC, Bene A, Kilic F.,
2003. Glycosyl modification facilitates homo- and hetero-oligomerization
of the serotonin transporter. Journal of Biological Chemistry,
278(45): 43991–44000
3) Kocabas AM,
Rudnick G, Kilic F, 2003. Functional consequences of homo- but
not hetero-oligomerization between transporters for the biogenic
amine neurotransmitters. Journal of Neurochemistry, 85(6):1513-1520
4) Kocabas AM,
Kucuktas H, Dunham RA, Liu Z, 2002. Molecular characterization
and differential expression of the myostatin gene in channel
catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta,
1575: 99 – 107
Honors
and Awards:
2002 Aquaculture
Genomics Travel Award for Aquaculture Workshop, Plant, Animal
and Microbe Genomes (PAG) X Conference, San Diego, CA, USA
1998-2002
Graduate Student Fellowship, Auburn University, AL, USA
1993-1996
Scholarship, Higher Education Council of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey
1991
Honor Student in Dean’s List at Ankara University, College
of Agriculture, Ankara, Turkey.
