Busra Karatas

Büşra Karataş completed her primary and secondary education in Ankara. Driven by her personal interest and curiosity in human evolution, she earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the Faculty of Language, History and Geography at Ankara University. During her undergraduate studies, she participated in excavation work at various fossil sites.

During her third year of undergraduate studies, she spent a semester at Freie University Berlin in Germany through the Erasmus exchange program. Through her social anthropology courses, she understood that human biological evolution and social relationships are inseparable, and therefore turned her attention to ancient DNA research, which sheds light on the past and makes significant contributions to our anthropological data.

To competently continue her studies in ancient DNA, she began her master's education at Ankara University, Institute of Science, Department of Biology, after completing a year of scientific preparation, in order to add molecular knowledge to her anthropological knowledge. Her master's thesis is on 'Profiling of Pathological Structures Found in Ancient Human Bones through Metagenomic Analysis'.

Büşra Karataş has been working as a researcher at the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory (eGL) and the Agrigenomics Hub Animal and Plant Genomics Research Innovation Center (AgriGx) since 2022.