Dr. P\u0131nar \u00c7al\u0131k is Professor of Chemical Reaction Engineering, focusing on biocatalysis and biochemical reaction engineering. Professor \u00c7al\u0131k’s Lab comprises the\u00a0 \u201cIndustrial Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering\u201d and “Biocatalysis and Biochemical Reaction Engineering” Laboratories.\u00a0 Professor \u00c7al\u0131k has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Microbiology and Letters in Applied Microbiology since 2007, and she was a Guest Editor of the Biotechnology Journal\u2019s Special Issue on Biotechnology in Turkey. Professor \u00c7al\u0131k is presently the Head of the Department of Biotechnology,\u00a0 Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences.<\/p>\n
She received her Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering from Ankara University in 1998. Between 1998-1999 she was a Lecturer at Ankara University. From 1999-2006 she was Associate Professor at METU; since 2006, she has been working as a Professor at METU. Professor \u00c7al\u0131k is a recipient of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientists Award.<\/p>\n
Her \u201cIndustrial Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering Research Group\u201d is currently researching the production of recombinant proteins<\/strong>, i.e.<\/em>, industrial enzymes<\/strong>\u00a0and pharmaceutical proteins<\/strong>, and starting carbon compounds for chemical process industries (CPIs), <\/strong>by Bacillus<\/em> species, E.coli<\/em> and Pichia pastoris<\/em>.\u00a0Areas of expertise include research on the effect of bioreactor operating parameters on productivity and selectivity, studies on intracellular reaction networks, modeling and analysis of intracellular reaction networks, metabolic engineering in P. pastoris<\/em>, catalysis via metabolic engineering, and targeted biomimetic chemisorption-based protein affinity purification.<\/p>\n Teaching<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 2025-2026 Spring<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n CHE 311 – Chemical Reaction Engineering<\/b><\/p>\n CHE 320 – Chemical Engineering Laboratory I\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n CHE 498 – Topics in Chemical Engineering I<\/strong><\/p>\n CHE 499 – Topics in Chemical Engineering II<\/strong><\/p>\n 2025-2026 Fall<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n CHE 311 – Chemical Reaction Engineering<\/b><\/p>\n CHE 517 – Metabolic Engineering\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n CHE 498 – Topics in Chemical Engineering I<\/strong><\/p>\n CHE 499 – Topics in Chemical Engineering II<\/strong><\/p>\n …….<\/p>\n Honors and Awards<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n -Turkish Academy of Science Distinguished Young Scientists Award, 2002<\/p>\n -Professor Tar\u0131k G. Somer\u00a0 Academic Achievement Award, METU, 2001<\/p>\n -The British Council Bursary: UMIST & University of Newcastle upon Tyne, April-May 1998<\/p>\n -NATO\u00a0 Fellowship TUBITAK : (Scientific & Technical Research Council of Turkey), 1996 -The British Council Bursary, Jan-Feb 1996 -Ph.D. Bursary TUBITAK (Scientific & Technical Research Council of Turkey), 1994-1998<\/p>\n -M.Sc. Bursary TUBITAK (Scientific & Technical Research Council of Turkey), 1993 \u2013 1994<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. P\u0131nar \u00c7al\u0131k is Professor of Chemical Reaction Engineering, focusing on biocatalysis and biochemical reaction engineering. Professor \u00c7al\u0131k’s Lab comprises the\u00a0 \u201cIndustrial Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering\u201d and “Biocatalysis and Biochemical Reaction Engineering” Laboratories.\u00a0 Professor \u00c7al\u0131k has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Microbiology and Letters in Applied Microbiology since 2007, and she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4302,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/indbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/indbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/indbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/indbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/indbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/indbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/indbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(University\u00a0 of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology)<\/p>\n
\n(University of\u00a0 Manchester\u00a0 Institute of\u00a0 Science and Technology\u00a0 (UMIST)<\/p>\n