METU
       
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Name&Surname Mahinur S. Akkaya
Title Associate Professor
Current Position Associate Professor
Room no O-313
Tel (90) 312 210 3196
Fax (90) 312 210 12 80
e-mail akkayams@metu.edu.tr

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   EDUCATION

  
Major Field Molecular Biology and Genetics Biochemistry
PhD The Ohio State University, OSBP (Ohio State Biochemistry Program), Columbus, OH, USA.
in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1991
MsC The Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry, Columbus, OH, USA.
in Biochemistry, 1987
BS Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
in Chemistry, 1984 (cum laude



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   PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Assoc. Prof. Mahinur S. Akkaya graduated from METU, Chemistry Department in 1984. She received her M.S. degree at the Ohio State University, Chemistry Department, Biochemistry subdivision in 1987 with an experience in protein/enzyme purification and characterization and enzyme kinetics. She received her Ph.D. degree in 1991 from Ohio State Biological Sciences Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology disciplines, worked on light regulation in higher plants. Dr. Mahinur S. Akkaya worked at United States Agricultural Department, Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland as a postdoctoral fellow and geneticist for over two years, where she started the development of soybean linkage map and DNA fingerprinting using Microsatellite Molecular Markers, which was the first application of these markers in any plant species. She then, worked for a year as a senior scientist at the National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, retroviral and cellular factor interactions at protein-protein and protein-RNA levels. Since 1995 she is a faculty member at METU. Recently her research interests are functional genomics using cDNA and/or oligonucleotide (DNA) microarray technology and differential display and screening methods, QTL analysis of wheat yellow rust disease, and development of molecular markers linked to disease resistance genes in wheat. Her publications received more than 420 citations. Her research is supported by grants from Third World Academy of Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency, TUBITAK, DPT and METU research funds.

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   MAJOR SUBJECTS OF INTEREST

Functional genomics using cDNA and/or oligonucleotide (DNA) microarray technology and differential display and screening methods, QTL analysis of wheat yellow rust disease, and development of molecular markers linked to disease resistance genes in wheat.


   

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   SELECTED PUBLICATION LIST

Hakki, E.E., Savaskan, C. and Akkaya, M.S. "Genotype Identification of Doubled-Haploid Durum Wheat Varieties by Microsatellites" Euphytica (in press)
Incirli, A and Akkaya, M.S. "Assessment of genetic relationships in durum wheat cultivars using AFLP markers" Gen. Res. Crop Evol. (in press)
Aka, F.N., Akkaya, M.S., Akkaya, E.U. "Remarkable cooperative action of two zinc centers in the hydrolysis of plasmid DNA" J. Mol. Catal. A. Chemical. 165, 293-296 (2001).
Hakki, E.E. and Akkaya, M.S. "Cloning of Rhizopus oryzae Lactate Dehydrogenase (ldh) gene fragment" Enzyme Microb. Tech. 28, 259-264 (2001).
Hakki, E.E. and Akkaya, M.S. "Microsatellite isolation using amplified fragment length polymorphism markers: no cloning, no screening" Molec. Ecol. 9, 2152-2154 (2000).
Dograr, N; Akin-Yalin, S. and Akkaya, M.S. "Discriminating durum wheat cultivars using highly polymorphic simple sequence repeat DNA markers" Plant Breeding, 119, 360-363 (2000).
Baykal, U., Akkaya, M.S., Akkaya, E.U. "A Novel Lanthanide Complex with Remarkable Phosphodiester Transesterification Activity and DNA-conjugatable Functionality" J. Inc. Phen. 35, 311-315 (1999).
Baykal, U., Akkaya, M.S. and Akkaya, E.U. "Remarkable phosphodiester hydrolysis activity of a novel Ce(IV) complex in neutral aqueous solutions" J. Mol. Catal. A. Chemical., 145, 309-312 (1999).
Akkaya, M.S.; Shoemaker, R.C.; Specth, J.E.; Bhagwat, A.A.; Cregan, P.B. "Integration of Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) DNA Markers Into a Soybean Linkage Map" Crop Science, 35, 1439-1445 (1995).
Rongwen, J.; Akkaya, M.S.; Bhagwat, A.A.; Lavi, U.; Cregan, P.B. "The Use of Microsatellite DNA Markers for Soybean Genotype Identification." Theor. Appl. Genet., 90, 43-48 (1995).

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