Tutku Cekigil is working as Sales Specialist at Zetamatrix, Inc. She graduated from Middle East Technical University,  Department of Biology. During her bachelor’s study, she worked with Dr. Nico Posnien for three months at Göttingen University, Germany. Her project investigated the expression of some candidate genes, determined by bioinformatics analysis, on eye-antennal imaginal discs of flies, which can be involved in developing the eyes of D. melanogaster.