1. 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,  under review in the ISME journal
2. Ezgi Özkurt, Eva H. Stukenbrock. Catching the Homoploid Hybridization Just After the Act: Genome Evolution of the Hybrid Fungus Zymoseptoria pseudotritici (In preparation)
3. M. Amine Hassani, Ezgi Özkurt, Heike Seybold, Eva H. Stukenbrock. Interactions and Coadaptation in Plant Metaorganisms, 2019, Annual Review of Phytopathology 
4. 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 
5. 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