Gönül Dündar

Committed Researcher with 8 years of experience using cutting edge technology since starting of Master's degree in Japan to generate and share important information with academic community. Networked with elite research teams from German to Japanese institutions to develop and improve research protocols for field. Conducted complicated research with integrity and great attention to detail.

• Erasmus Student Exchange Program Scholarship, 5 months, 2012
• Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Scholarship, 5 years (Manbukagakusho, MEXT), 2015
• Best Poster Presentation Award at the International Brassinosteroid Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 2023

• Crosstalk of the transcription factors in Plant hormone Brassinosteroid and heat stress pathway to understand growth and resistance response regulation to heat stress
• Understanding the environmental stress responses in plants molecular pathways and biotechnological applications for generating resistance crops
• The role of autophagy in response to the UV-B light and High Temperature Stress caused damage. Analyzing the environmental caused dysfunctional organelle, chloroplast, and mitochondria, removal by autophagy
• Studying the role of DNA damage in autophagy induction mechanism
• The trade of between plant growth and tolerance mechanisms in response to the heat and biotic stresses

• Gönül Dündar, Zhenhua Shao, Nahoko Higashitani, Mami Kikuta, Masanori Izumi, Atsushi Higashitani, Autophagy mitigates high-temperature injury in pollen development of Arabidopsis thaliana, Developmental Biology, 2019. doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.08.018
• Gönül Dündar, Mika Teranishi and Jun Hidema, Autophagy-deficient Arabidopsis mutant atg5, which shows UVB sensitivity, cannot remove UVB-induced fragmented mitochondria, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2020
• Pablo Albertos, Gönül Dündar, Philipp Schenk, Sergio Carrera, Philipp Cavelius, Tobias Sieberer and Brigitte Poppenberger. The transcription factor BES1 interacts with HSFA1 to promote heat stress resistance of plants, EMBOJ, 2021
• Gönül Dündar and Brigitte Poppenberger. Plant Hormones Contribution to High and Ambient Heat Stress Responses (in Prep.)

• Ramos, Miguel A., Sousa, Nadine R., Franco, Albina R., Dundar, Gonul, Oliveira, Rui S., Castro, Paula M. L. - Combining ectomycorrhizal fungi and bacteria: a powerful tool to improve tree performance. In MicroBiotec'13: Book of Abstracts. p. 211, Aveiro, Portugal
• Ramos, Miguel A., Sousa, Nadine R., Franco, Albina R., Dundar, Gonul, Oliveira, Rui S., Castro, Paula M. L. - Impact of bacterial inoculation of Quercus suber on mycorrhization by Suillus species at early stages of tree development. In 7th EPSO Conference 'Plants for a Greening Economy', Porto Heli, Greece, 1-4 September 2013.
• Ramos, Miguel A., Sousa, Nadine R., Franco, Albina R., Dundar, Gonul, Oliveira, Rui S., Castro, Paula M. L. - The interaction between ectomycorrhizal fungi and growth promoting bacteria in plant development from in-vitro to the field. In 7o Congresso Florestal Nacional 'Florestas - Conhecimento e Inovação', Bragança, Portugal, 5-8 Junho 2013.

• Plant Biology of the Next Generation, 2023, Technical University of Munich
• 10th Gene Quantification Event qPCR, dPCR and NGS, TUM Weihenstephan, 2023 (Attendee)
• The International Brassinosteroid Conference, Ghent/BELGIUM, 2023 (Poster Presentation - Awarded)
• The Botanical Society of Japan, Annual Meeting- 09/2019 (Oral Presentation)
• Vietnam - Japan Scientific Exchange meeting (VJSE2018) (Oral Pres.), Sendai, JAPAN
• International Symposium On Plant Photobiology (Poster Pres.), 2018, Matsue/JAPAN
• Japan Plant Physiology Society Annual Conference (Oral Pres.), 2018 Sapporo/ JAPAN
• The 11st meeting of the Graduate School of Life Science Exchange meeting (Oral Pres.), 2018 Sendai, JAPAN
• Europian Photobiology Conference, (Poster Pres.), 2017 Pisa/ ITALY
• International Symposium On Living In Space, 2017, Tokyo/ JAPAN
• Japan Plant Physiology Society Annual Conference, (Poster Pres.), 2017 Kagoshima/ JAPAN
• International Plant Oxygen Group (POG) Conference, (Poster Pres), 2017 Kusadasi/ TURKEY
• Ege University Stem Cell Symposium, 2009, Izmir/TURKEY
• Istanbul University Moleculer Biology and Genetic Symposium, 2011, TURKEY
• ISO 9001-14001-17025 and OHSAS 18001, Izmir/TURKEY
• Ege University Nanotechnology Week, 2013, Izmir/TURKEY
• National Biology Congress, 2015, Erzurum/TURKEY

• Data Science, Tohoku University - 2015-2018
• Academic Writing Training - Leicester University