Norwich Research Park
Norwich NR4 7UQ
Research Interest
- Microbiomes
- Metagenomics
- Population genetics, comparative genomics
- Computational biology
Advisor: Prof. Eva H. Stukenbrock
Thesis: Domestication-driven metaorganism evolution of wheat
Advisor: Dr. Mehmet Somel
Thesis: Evolution of bladder cancer investigated using exome sequencing
Thesis: Effect of different methods in water quality assesment
Advisor: Dr. Falk Hildebrand
Project: Human microbiomes with a focus on vertical transmission & gene networks
For further information: https://www.falk.science
Supervisor: Dr. Arne Nolte
Project: Gene expression in Cottus fish in response to water temperature
Advisor: Dr. Mehmet Somel
- Determining the origin of synchronous multifocal bladder cancer by next-generation sequencing (Published, Master Thesis)
- Mechanisms of Testes Expression Divergence in Human and Chimpanzee (Available in BioRxiv)
Supervisor: Dr. Ake Forsberg
Project: Gene silencing and Gene Tagging in Yersinia Pseudotuberculosis species to understand the mechanism of Type3 secretion system
- M. Amine Hassani, Ezgi Özkurt, Sören Franzenburg, Eva H. Stukenbrock. Ecological Assembly Processes of the Bacterial and Fungal Microbiota of Wild and Domesticated Wheat Species, 2020, available in bioRxiv: doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/896910
- Ezgi Özkurt, M. Amine Hassani, Uğur Sesiz, Tal Dagan, Hakan Özkan, Eva H. Stukenbrock. Higher Stochasticity of Microbiota Composition in Seedlings of Domesticated Wheat Compared to Wild Wheat, 2019, available in bioRxiv: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/685164, will be submitted to mBio
- M. Amine Hassani, Ezgi Özkurt, Heike Seybold, Eva H. Stukenbrock. Interactions and Coadaptation in Plant Metaorganisms, 2019, Annual Review of Phytopathology
- Ezgi Özkurt*, Omer Açar*, Gulfem Demir, Hilal Saraç, Can Alkan, Tarık Esen, Mehmet Somel*, Nathan A. Lack*.Determining the Origin of Synchronous Multifocal Bladder Cancer by Next-Generation Sequencing, 2015, BMC Cancer, doi: 10.1186/s12885-015-1859-8 *Equal contributions
- Ekin Saglican, Ezgi Özkurt, Haiyang Hu, Babur Erdem, Philipp Khaitovich, Mehmet Somel. Heterochrony Explains Convergent Testis Evolution in Primates. Accessible on http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/10/21/010553
- ESEB2019, August 19-24, Turku, Finland, Oral Presentation: Higher stochasticity of microbiota composition in seedlings of domesticated wheat compared to wild wheat
- SMBE2019, July 21-25, Machester, UK, Poster Presentation: Higher stochasticity of microbiota composition in seedlings of domesticated wheat compared to wild wheat
- EEBST2018, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, July 18-20, Izmir, Turkey, Oral Presentation: Domestication-driven Metaorganism Evolution of Wheat
- EMBO Plant Microbiota Workshop, 26 March - 7 April 2017, Cologne, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding
- Wild Plant Pathosystems, August 29-31, 2016, Helsinki, Poster Presentation: Genome Evolution of the Fungal Grass Pathogen Zymoseptoria pseudotritici
- 17th Next Generation Plant Biotechnology Symposium, Rehovot, Israel, April 11-13, 2016
- Quantitative Evolutionary Biology Workshop 2014, Şirince Ali Nesin Mathematic Village, Poster Presentation: Exome Sequencing on Evolutionary Relationship of Multifocal Bladder Tumours
Dr. Eva H. Stukenbrock, Kiel University & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany Email: stukenbrock@evolbio.mpg.de Phone: +49 431880 6368 (Kiel) & + 49 4522 763-236 (MPI)
Dr. Mehmet Somel, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Email: msomel@metu.edu.tr Phone: + 90 312 210 6460