BILSAB Seminar and Presentation Series, BSPS.
Every Friday, we host the Beykoz Seminar and Presentation Series (BSPS), is an ongoing platform that brings together leading scientists and emerging voices in research. These talks are alternated between the internal and the external speakers.
Our faculty actively leverage their international networks to bring experts at the forefront of their fields. Distinguished speakers from outside our university—and often from abroad are invited—to share their latest primary research. External seminars are meant to give the students firsthand exposure to cutting-edge discoveries and diverse scientific perspectives. To expose our students to the research happening beyond own our institute.
These invited speaker talks are interspersed with presentations by the institute's internal speakers i.e., our students and the postdocs, giving them the opportunity to showcase their work in a professional setting. These students are selected on a rotation basis and priority is given to students who have made advances in their projects or wish to discuss their project plans.
If and only, when necessary, some seminars are held online, since we greatly value in-person sessions, which foster deeper engagement, lively discussion, and meaningful interaction between speakers and students.
Journal clubs
Across our institute, each research group—and often groups of collaborating labs—holds weekly Journal Club sessions that alternate with student data presentations. These gatherings are designed to sharpen students' presentation abilities, deepen their critical analysis of scientific literature, and create a supportive forum for discussing ongoing research. Every week, the students or faculty members choose a paper relevant to the field, which is then read by all members of the journal club and is discussed together. One of the students takes the lead in the presentation and the others participate in dissecting the data from these papers.
Journal Clubs also give students and postdocs the opportunity to receive constructive feedback from peers and faculty members, helping them refine their ideas and strengthen their scientific communication. Through regular discussion and shared evaluation of new findings, students stay engaged with the latest advances in their fields while building confidence in presenting their own work.
