{"id":2235,"date":"2026-06-24T23:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:10:55","slug":"lauren-aufdembrink-3-2-2-2-3-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/2026\/06\/24\/lauren-aufdembrink-3-2-2-2-3-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Basak Velioglu Ulubas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; padding: 0 10pt 0 0; float: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: 30%; padding: 0 10pt 0 10pt; float: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2262 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BVU-151x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BVU-151x200.jpg 151w, http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BVU-772x1024.jpg 772w, http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BVU-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BVU-768x1019.jpg 768w, http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BVU.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 50%; padding: 0 10pt 0 0; float: left;\">\n<p>Basak received her B.S. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Middle East Technical University and her M.S. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Koc University in\u00a0<span aria-invalid=\"spelling\">Turkiye<\/span>. She joined the Adamala Lab in 2024 as a PhD student, where she researches the origins of life by engineering self-sustaining synthetic cells through the development of genetically encoded amino acid and energy metabolism pathways. She also develops synthetic cell-based sensors for rare earth element detection, with potential applications in astrobiology.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the lab, Basak enjoys working out, ice skating, playing tennis, and taking walks with her cat, Mia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; padding: 0 10pt 0 0; float: left;\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basak received her B.S. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Middle East Technical University and her M.S. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Koc University in\u00a0Turkiye. She joined the Adamala Lab in 2024 as a PhD student, where she researches the origins of life by engineering self-sustaining synthetic cells through the development of genetically encoded &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/2026\/06\/24\/lauren-aufdembrink-3-2-2-2-3-2-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Basak Velioglu Ulubas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}