Curriculum Vitae Dr. Ipek Akol

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ipek_Akol

Personal Data 

Title                                        

First name                             Ipek     

Name                                     Akol     

Current position                     Postdoctoral researcher

Identifiers/ORCID                  0000-0003-0842-6201

Qualifications and Career   

Degree programme               

2015-2018: Developmental, Neural and Behavioural Biology MSc., University of Göttingen, Germany

2011-2015: Biology BSc., Middle East Technical University   (METU), Ankara, Turkey        

Doctorate                                

2020-01/2024, supervisor: Prof. Dr. T. Vogel, Developmental Neuroepigenetics Lab, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany

Further stages                        

02/2024-today , Postdoctoral Researcher, Developmental Neuroepigenetics Lab, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University Freiburg

Scientific Results

Izzo A*, Akol I, Villarreal A, Lebel S, Garcia-Miralles M, Cheffer A, Bovio P, Heidrich S, Vogel T* (2023). Nucleophosmin 1 cooperates with the methyltransferase DOT1L to preserve peri-nucleolar heterochromatin organization by regulating H3K27me3 levels and DNA repeats expression. Epigenetics Chromatin.  28;16(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s13072-023-00511-9. *shared correspondance 

Cheffer A, Garcia-Miralles M, Maier E, Akol I, Franz H, Srinivasan VSV, Vogel T (2023) DOT1L deletion impairs the development of cortical parvalbumin-expressing interneurons. Cereb Cortex.  11:bhad281. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhad281. 

Akol I, Izzo A, Gather F, Strack S, Heidrich S, Ó hAilín D, Villarreal A, Hacker C, Rauleac T, Bella C, Fischer A, Manke T, Vogel T (2023) Multimodal epigenetic changes and altered NEUROD1 chromatin binding in the mouse hippocampus underlie FOXG1 syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120(2):e2122467120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2122467120. 

Akol I, Kalogeraki E, Pielecka-Fortuna J, Fricke M, Löwel S (2021) MMP2 and MMP9 Activity Is Crucial for Adult Visual Cortex Plasticity in Healthy and Stroke-Affected Mice. Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0902-21.2021

Akol I, Gather F, Vogel T (2021) Paving Therapeutic Avenues for FOXG1 Syndrome: Untangling Genotypes and Phenotypes from a Molecular Perspective. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202111.0545.v1

Academic Distinctions

2015-2018: DAAD-TEV Master Scholarship

2020: MeInBio -Medicine – Informatics – Biology: how NGS brings us together- Virtual Symposium Poster award

2022: 24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN) Conference Poster Award

2024: Thomas Bayes prize for young academics, University of Freiburg