Mehmet Soner TÜRKÜNER is a research assistant at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG) at Gebze Technical University (GTU). He completed his Bachelor's degree in MBG at GTU as a high honor student (valedictorian) in 2015. He received his Master's degree from the same department in 2017 with a thesis regarding the effect of monosodium glutamate on the adipogenic potential of 3t3-l1. He published his article based on this thesis (DOI: 10.1002/cbin.11269). As an output of the GTU-Scientific Research Project (2017) project, he made an abstract/poster presentation on the possible SIK2-based effects of endoplasmic reticulum stress on human adipocyte secretome profile at the GTU Graduate Research Symposium. He is currently a Ph.D. student and research assistant in the same department. He continues her studies effect of SIK2 and proteostasis on hypothalamic neurons and adipogenesis in the context of obesity etiology as a research fellow in Tubitak 1001 projects (118Z154 (completed) and 122Z021(Continue)). He is also working as the High-Resolution Mass Spectrophotometry instrument manager in the GTU-Central Research Application Laboratory (MAR) Cellular Proteomics Laboratory. He has extensive experience in LC-MS/MS-based proteomic approaches, cell culture, confocal-based cell Imaging, molecular cloning, lentiviral-based gene manipulation systems, recombinant protein production and purification, protein-protein interactions, adipogenesis, and bioinformatic approaches.