Tahire Yurdakul is a research assistant of Biology in Van Yüzüncü Yıl university and PhD student in the department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. She graduated from Molecular Biology and Genetics and also Bioengineering as a second major from Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey. She worked on Alzheimer’s Disease induced by Amyloid ß1-42 peptides in neurally differentiated SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cell line in her Master’s thesis in Molecular Biology program in Uskudar University. She is interested in molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases.