caner aktas

PhD Student

Dept. of Biological Sciences
Middle East Technical University
Ankara/TURKEY

Mailing Address:
ODTÜ Biyolojik Bilimler Bölümü 06800 Ankara/TURKEY

e-mail:

caner.aktas@metu.edu.tr

phone:

+90 312 210 51 90

fax:
+90 312 210 79 76


Education

  • 2018-Present: PhD, Middle East Technical University, Department of Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • 2016-2018: MSc., Middle East Technical University, Department of Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • 2010-2016: BSc., Middle East Technical University, Department of Biological Sciences, Biology

Research Interests

  • Molecular microbiology and genetics
  • Functional genomics
  • Dynamic gene expression analysis
  • Bacterial transformation
  • Proteomics

 POSTER PRESENTATIONS

  • Özcengiz, G., Aytekin, S., Tekin İşlerel, E., Aktaş, C. (2018). Bacillus subtilis overproduces industrially important extracellular enzymes upon the targeted deletion of bacilysin biosynthetic operon. New Biotechnology. Vol. 44, Suppl. S. p. S89, P9-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2018.05.940
  • Özcengiz, G., Ünsaldi, E., Aktaş, C., Ertekin, O., Özcan, S., Kızıldoğan, A.K., (2018). Systemic analysis of multiple coordinated changes associated with clavulanic acid overproduction in an industrial strain of S. clavuligerus. New Biotechnology. Vol. 44, Suppl. S. p. S109, P16-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2018.05.1005
  • Özcengiz, G., Ünsaldi, E., Aktaş, C., Ertekin, O., Kızıldoğan, A.K., Özcan, S. (2018). Proteome-wide analysis of pleiotropic effects of targeted homoserine dehydrogenase (hom) gene disruption in Streptomyces clavuligerus. New Biotechnology. Vol. 44, Suppl. S. p. S109, P16-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2018.05.1006

MS Thesis Title:  Quantitative Expression Analysis of the Genes Potentially Involved in Cephamycin C and Clavulanic Acid Overproduction in Streptomyces clavuligerus