Dr. Zeynep Girgin-Ersoy

Zeynep Girgin-Ersoy is an assistant professor at Bursa Uludağ University, Türkiye. She has a PhD from Gebze Technical University, Türkiye, in molecular biology and genetics, specifically bacterial genetics. Her research interests include natural antimicrobial peptides such as bacteriocins, promising candidates for use instead of antibiotics. Now, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ulm, Germany, studying the heterologous production of some natural antiviral peptides, which are effective on viruses causing respiratory tract infections, including SARS-CoV-2.