Melis Sumengen Ozdenefe

Near East University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Melis Sumengen Ozdenefe received her BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. in Biology from Çukurova University, Turkey, in 2009, 2011, and 2014, respectively. During her MSc, she spent six months at Anhalt University, Germany, as an international exchange student and a researcher. She has been working in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Near East University, Northern Cyprus since 2014. Her teaching interests include industrial microbiology, bacteriology, biotechnology, enzymology, and environmental microbiology. Her research areas involve enzymes and biosurfactants produced from various bacteria and fungi for industrial applications, the production and characterization of bacterial enzymes and bacteriocins, the antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of various plant structures, multiple antibiotic resistance, heavy metal resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, and water quality assessment. Dr. Ozdenefe’s works have been published in national and international journals, conferences, congresses, and symposiums.

Melis Sumengen Ozdenefe

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