PhD
Işılay Çelik graduated in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Istanbul Technical University and completed her master’s degree at Ankara University’s Biotechnology Institute. She has contributed to eGL research since 2018.
Her work focuses on environmental microbiology, biodiversity in extreme environments and microbiome–transcriptome relationships, using DNA barcoding and metabarcoding.
Projects include tardigrade genomes, pathogenicity of microplastic biofilms, AI-based multi-omics analysis, microbiota–transcriptome relationships in aquaculture, bat viromes and DNA-based fish identification. She also participates in AgriGenomics Hub and TR.AQUA research.