1. Janis R Bedarf, Naiara Beraza, Hassan Khazneh, Ezgi Özkurt, David Baker, Valeri Borger, Ullrich Wüllner, Falk Hildebrand. Much ado about nothing? Off-target amplification can lead to false-positive bacterial brain microbiome detection in healthy and Parkinson’s disease individuals, 2021, Microbiome
2. 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
3. Ezgi Özkurt, Falk Hildebrand. Lifelong sex-dependent trajectories of the human gut microbiota, 2021, Nature Aging News & Views
4. 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
5. 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
   
6. M. Amine Hassani, Ezgi Özkurt, Heike Seybold, Eva H. Stukenbrock. Interactions and Coadaptation in Plant Metaorganisms, 2019, Annual Review of Phytopathology 
7. 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 
8. 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

1. ESEB2019, August 19-24, Turku, Finland, Oral Presentation: Higher stochasticity of microbiota composition in seedlings of domesticated wheat compared to wild wheat
2. SMBE2019, July 21-25, Machester, UK, Poster Presentation: Higher stochasticity of microbiota composition in seedlings of domesticated wheat compared to wild wheat
3. EEBST2018, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, July 18-20, Izmir, Turkey, Oral Presentation: Domestication-driven Metaorganism Evolution of Wheat
4. EMBO Plant Microbiota Workshop,  26 March – 7 April 2017, Cologne, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding 
5. Wild Plant Pathosystems, August 29-31, 2016, Helsinki, Poster Presentation: Genome Evolution of the Fungal Grass Pathogen Zymoseptoria pseudotritici 
6. 17th Next Generation Plant Biotechnology Symposium, Rehovot, Israel, April 11-13, 2016
7. 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