
			Hulusi Cinar Postdoctoral Researcher Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine M.D., Ege University School of Medicine, Turkey Department of MCD Biology 329 Sinsheimer Laboratories University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Office: (831) 459-5741 Fax: (831) 459-1379 e-mail: hcinar@biology.ucsc.edu

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C U R R E N T P O S I T I O N

Postdoctoral fellow        Department of MCD Biology
                                       University of California Santa Cruz, CA
                                       Research Advisor: Yishi Jin, Professor and Howard

Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
2002-present

E D U C A T I O N

Doctor of Philosophy Division of Neuroscience

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX

Research advisor: Eugene M. Barnes, Jr., Professor

1996-2001

Predoctoral fellow in Program in Neuroscience

Louisiana State Univ. Medical Center, New Orleans, LA

1993-1996

Specialist Department of Physiology

Dokuz Eylul School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey

1990-1993

Doctor of Medicine Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey

1983-1990 (Among top 5%)

Ankara Fen Lisesi, Turkey

1979-1982

C U R R E N T R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S

‘Nicotinic signaling in the ventral cord motor neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans’

‘Combinatorial control of gene expression in motor neurons’

‘Genes involved in nerve regeneration’

P U B L I C A T I O N S

H. Cinar, S. Keles, Y. Jin. (2005) Expression profiling of GABAergic motor neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans, Current Biology, 15: 340-346.

M. F. Yanik, H. Cinar, H. N. Cinar, A. D. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. Ben-Yakar. (2004) Axon regeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans after femtosecond laser axotomy, Nature 432: 822.

H. Cinar, E. M. Barnes, Jr. (2001) Clathrin-independent endocytosis of GABA_A receptors in HEK 293 cells. Biochemistry (USA) 40: 14030-14036.

T A L K S

‘Tales of motor neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans: cell-specific genetic networks and nerve regeneration’, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, March 16, 2005, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. [invited]

‘Cellular identity of GABAergic motor neurons in C. elegans’, West Coast Worm Meeting, Aug 21, 2004, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.

‘Molecular anatomy of GABAergic neurons in C. elegans’, Bay Area Worm Meeting, Dec 6, 2003, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

A B S T R A C T S

H. Cinar, S. Keles, Y. Jin. Cellular identity of GABAergic motor neurons in C. elegans, West Coast Worm Meeting, Santa Barbara (2004) abstract 9. [invited to give a platform talk]

H. Cinar, Y. Jin. Molecular anatomy of GABA neurons in C. elegans, 14^th International C. elegans meeting (2003). [Poster Prize for presentation]

H. Cinar, Y. Jin. Toward the identification of genes expressed in C. elegans GABAergic neurons, West Coast Worm Meeting (2002) abstract 169.

H. Cinar, E. M. Barnes, Jr. Clathrin independent endocytosis of GABA_A receptors in HEK293 cells. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. (2000) 26, 1657.

H. Cinar, E. M. Barnes, Jr. Surface expression and internalization in HEK293 of GABA_A receptors containing a1b2- and a1b4-subunits. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. (1999) 25, 1711.

H. Cinar, E. M. Barnes, Jr. Assembly and surface expression in HEK293 cells of GABA_A receptors containing b4 subunits. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. (1998) 24, 102.

A.G. Stepanov, H. Cinar, E. M. Barnes, Jr. Identification of RhoGDI-3 as a protein interacting with GABA_A receptor b subunits. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. (1998) 24, 1349.

P R O F E S S I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N S

Member, Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC. 1997 – . Member, Genetics Society of America, Bethesda, MD, 2003- . Member, Turkish-American Scientists and Scholars Association, Washington, DC, 2005-

R E F E R E N C E S

Available upon request.