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 & microbial 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
- Ryszard Soluch, Nils F. Hülter, Devani Romero Picazo, Ezgi Özkurt, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Tal Dagan. Colonization dynamics of Pantoea agglomerans in the wheat root habitat, 2021, Environmental Microbioloy
- Ezgi Özkurt, Falk Hildebrand. Lifelong sex-dependent trajectories of the human gut microbiota, 2021, Nature Aging News & Views
- Ezgi Özkurt, M. Amine Hassani, Uğur Sesiz, Tal Dagan, Hakan Özkan, Eva H. Stukenbrock. Seed-Derived Microbial Colonization of Wild Emmer and Domesticated Bread Wheat (Triticum dicoccoides and T. aestivum) Seedlings Shows Pronounced Differences in Overall Diversity and Composition, 2020, mBio
- 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, Phytobiomes
- 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