Postdoc in Barabara Sixt’s group. Gözde investigates and characterizes the factors and pathways that are important for the interaction of Chlamydia trachomatis with its host cells.
Gözde was born in Mersin, Turkey, and did her bachelor's in biology with major in Fundamental and Industrial Microbiology at Ege University in Turkey. During her master's degree at Mersin University in Turkey, she studied the chemotherapy resistance in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
She then moved to Sweden for her PhD studies at Karolinska Institutet. In her PhD studies, she focused on discovering and characterizing novel factors that are essential for acute myeloid leukemia and for normal hematopoiesis. After her defense she moved back to Turkey to do a postdoc at Bogazici University focusing on the development of a vaccine and drugs for our battle against corona virus.
However, she had enjoyed living in Sweden so much that she decided to come back and to join the Barbara Sixt lab at Umeå University in March 2022. Her project is to investigate and characterize the factors and pathways that are important for the interaction of Chlamydia trachomatis with its host cells.