Speakers - PMBWC2024

Biography

İlayda Goktepe-Atilgan is a Ph.D. candidate at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from Istanbul University and received her master’s degree from the Molecular Biotechnology and Genetics program with her thesis ‘Biotechnologically Production of Anticancer Taxanes in Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) Cell Cultures’ in 2020. In 2021, she joined the Koc University Plant Biology lab as a Ph.D. student. She received a National Ph.D. Scholarship from the Turkish National Science Foundation (TUBITAK). Her primary research focuses on symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes.