Postdoc
email: Oemer.Iltas at mpimp-golm.mpg.de
Ömer is from Türkiye and has a Kurdish identity. He completed his BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Uşak University in Türkiye. His BSc thesis focused on the role of P1B-ATPases in metal tolerance in species of Brassica. He also took the opportunity to spend a year as an exchange student at the University of Würzburg, here in Germany. For his MSc, Ömer moved to the Gebze Technical University, where he worked on the role of maize microRNAs in response to Pseudomonas infection. His MSc thesis was done under the supervision of Dr. Fatma Aydınoğlu.
After his MSc was finished, Ömer moved to Czechia, more specifically to the Charles University in Prague. There, he became interested in how shift in mating system shape the evolution of sexual traits in flowering plants. Ömer’s PhD thesis was done in the lab of Prof. Clément Lafon Placette, and was successfully defended in early 2025.
In April 2025 Ömer joined our group, where he is studying apomictic traits in the Brassicaceae.
Figueiredo Lab 