Postdoctoral Scientist
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, United States
Asli Ekin Atici, MSc. PhD.
Dr. Atici is a postdoctoral scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
She earned her Master’s degree from Maastricht University, Netherlands on neuroscience and studied neurogenesis in rats. Later, she pursued a PhD on molecular biology from Bilkent University, Turkey and during that time she was a visiting graduate student at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles. Her PhD work focused on inter-organelle communation between endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria in the context of atherosclerosis and brown adipose tissue activation. She discovered a novel pathway involving an ER-kinase which initiates a cascade to control the maturation of a mitochondria resident microRNA and subsequently regulates mitochondrial biogenesis in different cell types and tissues. Her postdoctoral studies aim to understand autophagy/mitohagy as well as the innate immunity pathways during Kawasaki disease progression and treatment using a well-established mouse model. She was awarded a 2-year American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship for her work on the role of complement pathway in a mouse model of Kawasaki Disease vasculitis.
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