- 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
- 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

Norwich Research Park
Norwich NR4 7UQ
Research Interest
- Microbiomes
- Metagenomics
- Population genetics, comparative genomics
- Computational biology