doctoral candidate
Işılay Çelik
#Microbiome #Extremophile #Biodiversity #Metabarcoding #Barcoding
Işılay conducts research in the fields of environmental microbiology, extreme environmental biodiversity, and the microbiome-transcriptome relationship.
Işılay Çelik completed her primary, secondary, and high school education in Mersin. She received her bachelor's degree from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Istanbul Technical University and her master's degree from the Biotechnology Institute at Ankara University.
Işılay Çelik completed her master's degree at Ankara University Biotechnology Institute with a thesis titled "Determination of the thermal spring microbiome using environmental DNA metabarcoding." She is continuing her doctoral studies with research on the characterization of biofilm content developing on microplastics and the identification of potential pathogens. She is also conducting research on various other topics, including the molecular characterization of tardigrade species in Türkiye and the elucidation of the microbiome-transcriptome relationship within the context of omega-3 production.
Işılay Çelik works as the Head of the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory and as an Innovation Specialist at the Agrigenomics Hub (AgriGx) Animal and Plant Genomics Research Innovation Center.
Projects
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Integration of Multiple Ohmic Data with Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
Other Projects
Characterization of Fish Fauna of Elazığ Province by DNA Barcoding
Publications
Revealing the microbiome of four different thermal springs in Turkey with environmental DNA Metabarcoding, DNA barcoding of invasive Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 and Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810 inhabiting Upper Euphrates River Basin, Turkey