Selcuk Aslan

Biography:

Selcuk Aslan received his B.Sc. degree in biology at the University of Gaziantep (Turkey), studying molecular identification of pathogens of chick-pea. He completed his master's degree at Linköping University (Sweden), where he investigated the adaptation of landrace barley to day-length and frost-conditions. He obtained his PhD in Molecular Cell Biology from SLU in Uppsala, Sweden. During his PhD, he demonstrated a novel strategy of utilizing intermediates of the de novo fatty acid biosynthesis pathway in vegetative tissue for the production of wax esters in tobacco plants. He further engineered rice endosperm to reallocate carbon flux. Presently, as a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute, he engineer synthetic photorespiration pathways, using the model bacterium E. coli as a testbed, with the aim to implement the novel routes in photosynthetic organisms.