Erkin Seker named 2016 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator

Erkin Şeker, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a 2016 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Young Innovator.

Erkin Şeker, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was selected as a 2016 CMBE Young Innovator.

The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) selected the 2016 Young Innovators and Şeker was one of 12 researchers to receive the honor. The society noted Şeker’s work entitled, “Mechanisms of Reduced Astrocyte Surface Coverage in Cortical Neuron-Glia Co-cultures on Nanoporous Gold Surfaces.” UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering PhD candidate Chris Chapman co-authored the article. This research will be included in the Young Innovator Issue of the BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering journal.

Şeker joined the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2011. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVA) in 2007, where he developed techniques to control mechanical and morphological properties of nanoporous gold. Between 2009 and 2011, as a research associate at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, he developed multiple electrode arrays for neural electrophysiology applications and spearheaded the development of microsystems for monitoring transcriptional and secretory dynamics at a cellular-level in the context of metabolic dysregulation.

TASSA Board congratulates Dr. Seker.