Since 2003 my research has focused on understanding and improving biotechnological processes
- Grapefruit:
- development related to seed and grape size (Sultaniye)
- Wine:
- quality control on exported wine,
- avoid secondary fermentation
- Salmon:
- effect of diet on metabolism,
- selection of stress tolerant families.
- Whole genome sequencing
- 10M dollars project,
- harder than human genome
- Chile, Canada and Norway
- Mining:
- copper extraction helped by bacteria
Mining Industry
Copper is heated and melt
to separate it from other compounds
This is very expensive … 
… and contaminant
Solution: Bioleaching
The use of bacteria to extract elements from ore
Bioleaching is much better that melting copper
- Reduced contamination
- Cheaper
The goal is to understand and improve the involved bacteria so this technology can be used extensively
Enables building new mines
It is like discovering petrol reserves for the country
Most of the results are still industrial secret
We had a research contract with the main mining company
State owned, big enough to pay for long term research
Few papers, many patents