o.Soyer@warwick.ac.uk
Orkun Soyer is a professor at the University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences and a Gordon and Betty Moore Investigator. His current research focusses on (1) cellular metabolism and understanding the dynamics of metabolic overflows, and (2) spatial and temporal organisation in microbial communities. His group utilizes both modelling and experiments and comprises students and early career researchers with backgrounds in biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics. Among other techniques, his group uses different modalities of time-lapse fluorescent microscopy, most recently to follow cellular NADH dynamics and spatial organisation through filamentous cyanobacterial motility.
Orkun holds a Phd in chemistry from the University of Michigan, for his work on protein evolution with Dr. Richard Goldstein. After a postdoctoral research on evolution of structure and dynamics of biochemical, cellular networks with Dr. Sebastien Bonhoeffer, at the ETH, Zurich, Orkun started his own research group at the Microsoft Research Centre for Computational Biology in Trento, Italy. He subsequently held lecturer and senior lecturer positions at the University of Exeter, before joining University of Warwick as a professor in 2013