Education:

2025 - Present: Dr. rer. Nat (PhD); International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Molecular Biology and Research Training Group EvoReST, Göttingen, Germany; 

Working title: Fate and consequences of endosymbiotic gene transfer in light of mosaicism in embryophyte pathways

2023-2025: M.Sc. in Molecular Biology; International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Molecular Biology, Göttingen, Germany;

Thesis: Phylogenetic analyses of chimeric proteins in photosynthetic eukaryotes

2017-2022: B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics; Bilkent University, Faculty of Science, Ankara, Turkey;

Senior project: Apple Microbiome – A Functional Perspective

Experience: 

May – Jun 2024:  Rotation student; Department of Primate Genetics, German Primate Center (DPZ), Göttingen, Germany

Mar – Apr 2024:  Rotation student; Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, George-August-University Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany

Jan – Feb 2024: Rotation student; Research Group Biochemistry of Signal Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany

Jun – Dec 2021: Intern; Microbial Data Science Group, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany (remote working due to COVID-19)

Jul – Aug 2020: Intern; Non-Coding RNA Laboratory, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey (remote working due to COVID-19)

Mar 2019 – Jun 2020: Team Member and Undergraduate Researcher; Bilkent UNAMBG iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machines Competition) Team, Synthetic Biosystems Laboratory, National Nanotechnology Research Center, Ankara, Turkey

Others:

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M5PlbRUAAAAJ&hl=tr

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/merve-nida-baştürk-795425179/