Ezgi Özkurt

This study develops a method to enrich microeukaryotes in human stool samples for shotgun sequencing, improving their representation and taxonomic diversity in metagenomic libraries.

This study examines the seed-borne microbiome in wheat, showing that while seeds have homogeneous microbial composition, seedling colonization is stochastic and influenced by selective processes during transmission.

LotuS2 is a fast and accurate tool for amplicon sequencing analysis that outperforms existing pipelines in speed and diversity metrics.

The paper analyzes testis transcriptomes across primates to show convergent evolution linked to mating strategies, finding both tissue composition shifts and cell-autonomous changes.