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Serhatal Research Group

Group photo. Post-Doc Adalet Dishan, PhD; Neriman Loker, postgrad student; Serhat Al; and Hazal Cobur, PhD student (Left to right (or vice versa))

Serhat AL, PhD DVM was directly jumped into the excited and chaotic scientific working environment immediately after his graduation from Vet School of Firat University, Turkey. He started a research assistant position at the same school of Erciyes University in 2011 and at beginning of the 2017 eagerly achieved his PhD title. Nobody knows why, he started to find huge grants for his hypothesis for the field of food safety. Before to mid of 2023, he attended and tried to give his best over 25 national and international research projects and conducted 10 research projects as a PI. He had always some thoughts about doing post-doctoral research in some parts of the World and in 2020, did not miss to chance to be a research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Between 2020-2022 he has got lots of good time in the Meat Science and Animal Biologics department BSL2 lab although tough time during the Covid19 pandemic. 

Generally, he works on food safety, antibiotic resistance, and molecular microbiology. Sometimes he lost his focus and decides to design PCR-RFLP for meat muscle animal sorting in meat products. Still, he is ready to try different research fields, and seems this confusion going to continue. He loves playing with ready-to-use bioinformatic tools for evaluating his genomic data from foodborne pathogens. Currently, he is making real his dreams by working on interactions between Salmonella and intestinal innate response in vitro and in vivo.

Now he claims that being a motivated researcher depends on a joyful trip to deep understanding and getting lost in scientific data. With that, the most interesting part is (!) he still can find ambitious colleagues and students. He has good connections with his colleagues from some parts of the world and very good research groups covering his students. As a research group, one undergrad (possibly two in the upcoming weeks), one postgrad, one PhD student, and one post-doc researcher accompany him to make science great again.