Funding
Grants & Funding
The Kaplan Lab gratefully acknowledges support from national and international funding agencies for research on ciliopathies, rare disease genomics, and bioinformatics.
Active & Ongoing
2026–present
Modeling the SGSM3 Gene-Associated Cognitive Impairment in C. elegans
TÜBİTAK · Co-investigator · Türkiye
2026–present
Modeling SEC24B in Caenorhabditis elegans
Gazi University · Co-investigator · Türkiye
2025–present
Validation of UNC5C as a Neurodevelopmental Disease Gene in C. elegans
TÜSEB (Turkish Health Institutes) · Türkiye
2025–present
Comprehensive Update of Ciliary Genes via Data Mining
Gazi University · Türkiye
2024–present
Roles of GAP Proteins FLCN-1, RPI-2 and GTPases ARL-3, RAGA-1 in Cilia Biogenesis
Gazi University · Co-investigator · Türkiye
2023–present
Molecular Mechanism of Excluding Non-Ciliary Proteins from Cilia (FRAP Analysis)
TÜSEB (Turkish Health Institutes) · Türkiye
2023–present
Roles of FLCN and RP2 as GTPase-Activating Proteins in Cilia Biogenesis
TÜSEB (Turkish Health Institutes) · Türkiye
2022–present
Functional Characterization of Patl1 as a Disease Gene in Fruit Fly and C. elegans
TÜBİTAK · Co-investigator · Türkiye
Completed
2022–2023
Functional Characterization of Variants in Ciliopathy Patients
Gazi University · Co-investigator · Türkiye
2018–2022
Functional Characterization of Joubert Syndrome-Associated CEP-41 in Cilia Biogenesis
TÜBİTAK · Türkiye
2018–2020
Discovery and Characterization of New Ciliary Genes
TÜBİTAK · Türkiye
2018–2020
Systematic Identification of Novel Ciliary Genes
Abdullah Gül University · Türkiye
2013–2016
Mechanisms of In Vivo Direct Cell Type Conversion in C. elegans
Helmholtz Association · Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany
Supported by
TÜBİTAK
TÜSEB
Gazi University
Abdullah Gül University
Helmholtz Association