Emre Aksoy

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. My research interests include stress responses of plants to essential metal deficiency/toxicity and toxic heavy metals as well as environmental changes such as drought and salt stresses. In particular, our research team tries to understand the involvement of RNA metabolism regulators in the control of Fe deficiency and Cd toxicity responses of plants; the development of new plant varieties that accumulate more essential minerals so that, in turn, can be used as functional foods in the human diet.