1. Meltem Elitas, Guleser Kalayci Demir, and Sumeyra Vural Kaymaz, Mathematical model for growth and rifampicin-dependent killing kinetics of Escherichia coli cells, ACS Omega 8, 38452–38458 (2023).

2. Seren Kecili, Sumeyra Vural Kaymaz, Beyzanur Ozogul, H. Cumhur Tekin, and Meltem Elitas, Investigating influences of intravenous fluids on huvec and u937 monocyte cell lines using the magnetic levitation method, Analyst 148, 5588–5596 (2023).

3. Meltem Elitas, Monsur Islam, Jan G. Korvink, Esra Sengul, Pouya Sharbati, Beyzanur Ozogul, and Sumeyra Vural Kaymaz, Quantifying deformation and migration properties of u87 glioma cells using dielectrophoretic forces, Biosensors 12 (2022).

4. Esra Sengul, Pouya Sharbati, Meltem Elitas, Monsur Islam, and Jan G. Korvink, Analysis of u87 glioma cells by dielectrophoresis, ELECTROPHORESIS 43, 1357–1365 (2022).

5. Sümeyra Vural Kaymaz, Ali F. Ergen., Ali .. Aytekin, Stuart J. Lucas, and Meltem Elitas, A low-cost, portable, and practical lamp device for point-of-diagnosis in the field, Biotechnology and Bioengineering 119, 994–1003 (2022).

6. Sumeyra Vural Kaymaz, Unal Akar, and Meltem Elitas, Nucleic acid extraction methods and technologies for on-site plant–pathogen diagnostics, ACS Agricultural Science & Technology 1, 581–585 (2021).

7. Meltem Elitas, Neeraj Dhar, and John D. McKinney, Revealing antibiotic tolerance of the mycobacterium smegmatis xanthine/uracil permease mutant using microfluidics and singlecell analysis, Antibiotics 10, 10.3390/antibiotics10070794 (2021).

8. Sümeyra Vural Kaymaz and Meltem Elitas, Optimization of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (lamp) reaction mixture for biosensor applications, MethodsX 8, 101282 (2021).

9. Esra Sengul and Meltem Elitas, Long-term migratory velocity measurements of single glioma cells using microfluidics, Analyst 146, 5143–5149 (2021).

10. Hande Karamahmutoglu, Alara Altay, Vural Sumeyra Kaymaz, and Meltem Elitas, Quantitative investigation into the influence of intravenous fluids on human immune and cancer

cell lines, Sci Rep 10, 10.1038/s41598-020-61296-5 (2020).

11. Esra Sengul and Meltem Elitas, Single-cell mechanophenotyping in microfluidics to evaluate behavior of u87 glioma cells, Micromachines 11 (2020).

12. Tugrul Tansug, Elif Taskin, Eray Kurt, and Meltem Elitas, Design and development of a multi-functional laparoscopic device, Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Automation 10.17265/2159-5275/2019.05.005 (2019).

13. Meltem Elitas, Yagmur Yildizhan, Monsur Islam, Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, and Didem Ozkazanc, Dielectrophoretic characterization and separation of monocytes and macrophages using 3d carbon-electrodes, ELECTROPHORESIS 40, 315–321 (2019).

14. Dogukan Kaygusuz, Sümeyra Vural, Ali .zhan Aytekin, Stuart James Lucas, and Meltem Elitas, Daimondna: A portable, low-cost loop-mediated isothermal amplification platform for naked-eye detection of genetically modified organisms in resource-limited settings, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 141, 111409 (2019).

15. Zaeema Khan, Hande Karamahmuto˘glu, Meltem Elitas, Meral Yüce, and Hikmet Budak, Through the looking glass: Real-time imaging in brachypodium roots and osmotic stress analysis, Plants 8, 10.3390/plants8010014 (2019).

16. Meltem Elitas, Effect of glioma-macrophage interaction on tumor sphere formation, Acıbadem Universitesi Saglık Bilimleri Dergisi , 445–448 (2018).

17. Meltem Elitas, On-chip isoniazid exposure of mycobacterium smegmatis penicillinbinding

protein (pbp) mutant using time-lapse fluorescent microscopy, Micromachines 9,10.3390/mi9110561 (2018).

18. Fiaz Ahmad, Akhtar Rasool, Emre Ozsoy, Raja Sekar, Asif Sabanovic, and Meltem Elitas, Distribution system state estimation-a step towards smart grid, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 81, 2659–2671 (2018).

19. Yagmur Yildizhan, Umut B. Gogebakan, Alara Altay, Monsur Islam, Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, and Meltem Elitas, Quantitative investigation for the dielectrophoretic effect of fluorescent dyes at single-cell resolution, ACS Omega 3, 7243–7246 (2018).

20. Fiaz Ahmad, Akhtar Rasool, Esref Emre Ozsoy, Asif Sabanovi., and Meltem Elitas, A robust cascaded controller for dc-dc boost and cuk converters,World Journal of Engineering, 459–466 (2017).

21. Fiaz Ahmad, Akhtar Rasool, Esref Emre Ozsoy, Asif Sabanovi., and Meltem Elitas, Successive-over-relaxation based recursive bayesian approach for power system configuration identification, COMPEL - The international Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering , 1043–1058 (2017).

22. Meltem Elitas, Sahl Sadeghi, Hande Karamahmutoglu, Devrim Gozuacik, and Nazim Serdar Turhal, Microfabricated platforms to quantitatively investigate cellular behavior under the influence of chemical gradients, Biomedical Physics Engineering Express 3, 035023 (2017).

23. Meltem Elitas, Isoniazid killing of mycobacterium smegmatis nadh pyrophosphatase mutant at single-cell level using microfluidics and time-lapse microscopy, Scientific Reports,10770 (2017).

24. Fiaz Ahmad, Abdul Kabir and Rasool Akhtar Rashid, Muhammad, Emre .zsoy, E.sref, Asif Sabanovic, and Meltem Elitas, Performance comparison of static and dynamic state estimators for electric distribution systems, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems 18, 20160299 (2017).

25. Yagmur Yildizhan, Nurdan Erdem, Monsur Islam, Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, and Meltem Elitas, Dielectrophoretic separation of live and dead monocytes using 3d carbon-electrodes, Sensors 17, 2691 (2017).

26. Meltem Elitas, Neeraj Dhar, Katrin Schneider, Ana Valero, Thomas Braschler, John D. McKinney, and Philippe Renaud, Dielectrophoresis as a single cell characterization method for bacteria, Biomedical Physics Engineering Express 3, 015005 (2017).

27. Fiaz Ahmad, Kabir Muhammad Abdul Rashid, Akhtar Rasool, Esref Emre Ozsoy, Asif Sabanovi., and Meltem Elitas, An improved unscented kalman filter based dynamic state estimation algorithm for electric distribution systems, COMPEL-The international Journal

for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering 36, 1220–1236 Meltem Elitas January 29, 2025 2/5 (2017).

28. Nurdan Erdem, Yagmur Yildizhan, and Meltem Elitas, A numerical approach for dielectrophoretic characterization and separation of human hematopoietic cells, International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology 110.17577/IJERTV6IS040730 (2017).

29. Meltem Elitas, Meral Yüce, and Hikmet Budak, Microfabricated tools for quantitative plant biology, Analyst 142, 835–848 (2017).

30. Meltem Elitas and Sohelia Zeinali, Modeling and simulation of egf-csf-1 pathway to investigate glioma–macrophage interaction in brain tumors, International Journal of Cancer Studies and Research , 1–8 (2016).

31. Meltem Elitas, Kara Brower, Yao Lu, Jonathan J Chen, and Rong Fan, A microchip platform for interrogating tumor–macrophage paracrine signaling at the single-cell level, Lab on a Chip 14, 3582–3588 (2014).

32. Meltem Elitas, Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, Neeraj Dhar, John D McKinney, and Philippe Renaud, Dielectrophoresis based purification of antibiotic-treated bacterial subpopulations, Lab on a Chip 14, 1850–1857 (2014).

33. Chao Ma, Rong Fan, and Meltem Elitas, Single cell functional proteomics for assessing immune response in cancer therapy: Technology, methods, and applications, Frontiers in Oncology 3, 10.3389/fonc.2013.00133 (2013).

34. Wei Wei, Shik Shin Young, Ma Chao, Wang Jun, Meltem Elitas, Fan Rong, and Heath James, R., Microchip platforms for multiplex single-cell functional proteomics with applications to immunology and cancer research, Genome Medicine 10.1186/gm479 (2013).

35. Meltem Elitas, Nergiz Ahmet Ozkan Khan, Shahzad, and Asif Sabanovic, Task-based bilateral control for microsystems application, AUTOMATIKA , 107–117 (2011).

36. Asif Sabanovic, Meltem Elitas, and Kouhei Ohnishi, Sliding modes in constrained systems control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 55, 3332–3339 (2008).

1. Taskin E., Kurt, E., Ulgen O., Tansug, T., Elitas,M.(2024) SUP143 – Tel .ifti E˘gme Cihazı,

Patent Application No: 2020/08456, Turkish Patent and Trademark Institute.

2. Senuysal H., Tansug T., Elitas M. (2022) Continuous stapler for laparoscopic procedures,

Patent No: 18878147.0, European Patent and Trademark Institute.

3. Tansug T., Taskiran T., Zeinali S., Elitas M. (2017) Multifunctional Laparoscopic Tool,

Utility No: 2015/14193, Turkish Patent and Trademark Institute.

1. Ozge Umut, Miray E. Palaz, Deniz Muratli, Aleyna Kizilyer, Sumeyra Vural Kaymaz, Tugce Ermis, and Meltem Elitas, U-Net–Based Segmentation of Escherichia coli cells in the absence and presence of ciprofloxacin exposure, in Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence (ETAI) 2023, Vol. 12655, edited by Giovanni Volpe, Joana B. Pereira, Daniel Brunner, and Aydogan Ozcan, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE, 2023) p. 1265502.

2. Ermis Tugce, Sener Emre, and Meltem Elitas, Cell classification framework using u-net: Convolutional networks for cervix cell segmentation, in Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence (ETAI) 2023, Vol. 12655, edited by Giovanni Volpe, Joana B. Pereira, Daniel Meltem Elitas January 29, 2025 3/5 Brunner, and Aydogan Ozcan, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE, 2023)p. 126550G.

3. Pouya Sharbati and Meltem Elitas, Numerical analysis of microfluidic gold electrode array for dielectrophoretic characterization of u87 glioma cells, in 2022 Medical Technologies Congress (TIPTEKNO) (2022) pp. 1–4.

4. Esra Sengul and Meltem Elitas, Optimization of U-Net: Convolutional Networks for U87 Human Glioblastoma Cell Line Segmentation, in Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence (ETAI) 2021, Vol. 11804, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE, 2021) p. 118041G.

5. Esra Sengul, Osman Kara, Yagmur Yildizhan, Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, and Meltem Elitas, Single cell level dielectrophoretic responses dielectrophoretic deformations of monocytes to quantify population heterogeneity, in 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology Society (EMBC) (2020) pp. 2221–2226.

6. Osman Sahin, Meltem Elitas, and Murat Kaya Yapici, Simulation of dielectrophoresis based separation of red blood cells (rbc) from bacteria cells, in 2020 21st International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE) (2020) pp. 1–4.

7. Ege Onal, Evren Ersen, and Meltem Elitas, Low-Cost, Robotic-Assisted Laparoscope, InternationalConference on Medical Engineering, 12 (2018).

8. Hande Karamahmutoglu, Metin Cetin, Tamer Yaˇgcı, and Meltem Elitas, Behavior of HepG2Liver Cancer Cellsusing  Microfluidic-Microscopy: A Preliminary Study, Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems XVI, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 10491, 104910Y (2018).

9. Elif Taskin, Eray Kurt, Meltem Elitas, and Tugrul Tansug, Multifunctional laparoscopic appendectomy device, Turkish Automatic Control TOK, IEEE, (2017).

10. Hilal Senuysal, EMeltem Elitas, and Tugrul Tansug, Continuous laparoscopic surgical sampler, Turkish Automatic Control TOK, IEEE, (2017).

11. Metehan Mutlu and Meltem Elitas, Design and development of motorized placer for balloon uterine stents in gynecology, CBBE 2016: 18th International Conference on Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, (2016).

12. Meltem Elitas, Development of microfabricated tools to investigate iimmune cell-tumor cell interactions, Journal of Clinical Cellular Immunology (2016).

13. Meltem Elitas and Rong Fan, Cellular heterogeneity: Role of variability and noise in biological decision-making, heterogeneity in glioma – macrophage interaction and its quantification in terms of protein expression, EMBL (2005).

14. Fiaz Ahmad, Akhtar Rasool, Emre Ozsoy, Asif Sabanovic, and Meltem Elitas, Design of a robust cascaded controller for cuk converter, in 2016 IEEE International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (PEMC) (2016) pp. 80–85.

15. Meltem Elitas, Shahzad Khan, Ahmet Ozcan Nergiz, and Asif Sabanovic, Function based control for bilateral systems in tele-micromanipulation, in 2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (2008) pp. 544–549.

16. Shahzad Khan, Ahmet Ozcan Nergiz, Meltem Elitas, Volkan Patoglu, and Asif Sabanovic, A hybrid force-position controller based man-machine interface for manipulation of micro objects, in 2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science (2007) pp. 62–67. Meltem Elitas January 29, 2025 4/5

17. Asif Sabanovic and Meltem Elitas, Smc based bilateral control, in 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (2007) pp. 2144–2149.

18. Muhammad Hocaoglu and Meltem Elitas Sabanovic, Asif, Bilateral control for biomedical field, in Turkish Automatic Control TOK, IEEE (2007).

19. Shahzad Khan, Meltem Elitas, Emrah Deniz Kunt, and Asif Sabanovic, Discrete sliding mode control of piezo actuator in nano-scale range, in 2006 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (2006) pp. 1454–1459.

20. Asif Sabanovic, Shahzad Khan, Meltem Elitas, and Karel Jezernik, Sliding mode adaptive controller for pzt actuators, in IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics (2006) pp. 5209–5214.

21. Meltem Elitas, Emrah Deniz, and Asif Sabanovic, Design of haptic devices for micro parts handling, in Turkish Automatic Control TOK, IEEE (2006).

22. Meltem Elitas, Emrah Deniz, Merve Acer, and Asif Sabanovic, Functional control for bilateral

systems, in Turkish Automatic Control TOK, IEEE (2006).

1. Sadeghi Shal and Meltem Elitas, A simple bubble-free cell loading technique for culturing mammalian cells on lab-on-a-chip devices, in Chips and Tips, RSC (2017).

1. Kemal Oltun Evliyao˘glu and Meltem Elitas, Design and development of a self-adaptive, reconfigurable and low-cost robotic arm, in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering for Advanced and Intelligent Manufacturing, edited by Dan Zhang and Bin Wei (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2017) pp. 395–405.

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