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Mehmet Kerem Türkcan

Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Verified email at columbia.edu
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Accelerating with FlyBrainLab the discovery of the functional logic of the Drosophila brain in the connectomic and synaptomic era

AA Lazar, T Liu, MK Turkcan, Y Zhou - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
In recent years, a wealth of Drosophila neuroscience data have become available including
cell type and connectome/synaptome datasets for both the larva and adult fly. To facilitate …

[HTML][HTML] Surgical Phase Recognition in Inguinal Hernia Repair—AI-Based Confirmatory Baseline and Exploration of Competitive Models

C Zang, MK Turkcan, S Narasimhan, Y Cao, K Yarali… - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
Video-recorded robotic-assisted surgeries allow the use of automated computer vision and
artificial intelligence/deep learning methods for quality assessment and workflow analysis in …

Severity of coronary artery disease is associated with diminished circANRIL expression: A possible blood based transcriptional biomarker in East Africa

…, E Nyawawa, B Nyangasa, MK Turkcan… - Journal of Cellular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Antisense Noncoding RNA in the INK4 Locus (ANRIL) is the prime candidate gene at
Chr9p21, the well‐defined genetic risk locus associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). …

[HTML][HTML] A programmable ontology encompassing the functional logic of the drosophila brain

AA Lazar, MK Turkcan, Y Zhou - Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Drosophila brain has only a fraction of the number of neurons of higher organisms such
as mice and humans. Yet the sheer complexity of its neural circuits recently revealed by …

Emerging role of circANRIL expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells as a promising liquid biopsy diagnostic biomarker for coronary artery disease

G Akan, E Nyawawa, B Nyangasa, MK Turkcan… - 2022 - researchsquare.com
Background: Long-non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are increasingly recognized to play major
roles in coronary artery disease (CAD). ANRIL, a well-known lncRNA is located on the 9p21. …

Common SNP-based haplotype analysis of the 9p21. 3 gene locus as predictor coronary artery disease in Tanzanian population

…, E Mbugi, I Adolf, MK Turkcan… - Cellular and …, 2019 - mail.cellmolbiol.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have recently confirmed a strong association of
the 9p21. 3 locus with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) in different populations but no data …

Examining the Influence of Varied Levels of Domain Knowledge Base Inclusion in GPT-based Intelligent Tutors

B Castleman, MK Turkcan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12367, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have facilitated the development of
chatbots with sophisticated conversational capabilities. However, LLMs exhibit frequent …

A Programmable Model for Exploring the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Antennal Lobe

AA Lazar, MK Turkcan, Y Zhou - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Recent progress on connectomics has resulted in huge datasets of brain structures in single-synapse
scale. This calls for the modeling of executable circuits to discover the functional …

A Programmable Model for Exploring the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Mushroom Body

AA Lazar, MK Turkcan, Y Zhou - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
We advance a model of the Mushroom Body of the Drosophila brain based on the recently
published fruit fly brain connectome. We quantify the effect of the connectivity from antennal …

FlyBrainLab: Accelerating the Discovery of the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain in the Connectomic/Synaptomic Era

AA Lazar, T Liu, MK Turkcan, Y Zhou - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
In recent years, a wealth of Drosophila neuroscience data have become available. These
include cell type, connectome and synaptome datasets for both the larva and adult fly. To …