Curriculum Vitae

Position

Education

Awards and experience

Publications

1. Yanchukov A, Çetintaş O, Çolak F, Nedyalkov N, Rusin M, Solak HM, Bilgin R, et al. (2026). Genome-wide SNP and mtDNA phylogeny of blind mole rats (Spalacinae Gray, 1821) reflects a complex history of relictualism, expansion, and speciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 206(1): zlaf186.
2. Solak HM, Kreisinger J, Čížková D, Sezgin E, Schmiedová L, Murtskhvaladze M, Henning Y, Çolak F, Matur F, Yanchukov A (2024). Altitude shapes gut microbiome composition accounting for diet, thyroid hormone levels, and host genetics in a subterranean blind mole rat. Frontiers in Microbiology 15: 1476845.
3. Solak HM, Sezgin E, Čížková D, Kreisinger J, Çolak F, Çetintaş O, Yanchukov A (2023). The microbiota of long-living and cancer-free blind mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) from the edge of its distribution in Northern Anatolia. Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series C Biology 32(2): 105–118.
4. Uludüz N, Yanchukov A, Solak HM, Sözen M (2023). Cetacean stranding events at Zonguldak, southwestern Black Sea coast of Türkiye. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 75(1): 123–131.
5. Solak HM, Yanchukov A, Çolak F, Matur F, Sözen M, Ayanoğlu C, Winternitz JC (2020). Altitudinal effects on innate immune response of a subterranean rodent. Zoological Science 37(1): 1–11.

Posters and presentations

Talks

• Altitude shapes gut microbiome composition accounting for diet and host genetics in a subterranean mole rat

  Solak HM, Kreisinger J, Čížková D, Sezgin E, Schmiedová L, Murtskhvaladze M, Çolak F, Matur F, Yanchukov A

  Zoologické dny · Ostrava, Czech Republic · 8–9 February 2024

• Altitudinal effect on gut microbiome composition of long-living and cancer-free blind mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon)

  Solak HM, Sezgin E, Čížková D, Kreisinger J, Çolak F, Matur F, Yanchukov A

  8th Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium · Ankara, Türkiye · 17–19 July 2023

• Altitudinal effects on ecoimmunology of Turkish blind mole-rats

  Solak HM, Winternitz JC, Yanchukov A, Ayanoğlu C, Çolak F, Matur F, Sözen M

  Subterranean Rodent Workshop, VII EGSM · Budapest, Hungary · 1 October 2018

Posters

• Altitudinal effect on gut microbiome composition of Anatolian blind mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon)

  Solak HM, Sezgin E, Čížková D, Kreisinger J, Çolak F, Matur F, Yanchukov A

  7th Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium · Ankara, Türkiye · 7–9 September 2022

• Altitudinal effect on gut microbiome composition of Anatolian blind mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon)

  Solak HM, Sezgin E, Čížková D, Kreisinger J, Çolak F, Matur F, Yanchukov A

  ESEB Congress 2022 · Prague, Czechia · 14 August 2022 · View poster

• Altitudinal effects on innate immune response and local population genetic structure of Anatolian blind mole-rats (Nannospalax xanthodon)

  Solak HM, Yanchukov A, Çolak F, Matur F, Sözen M, Ayanoğlu C, Winternitz JC

  Zoologické dny · Olomouc, Czech Republic · 6–7 February 2020

• Altitudinal effects on innate immune response of Turkish blind mole-rats (Nannospalax xanthodon)

  Solak HM, Yanchukov A, Çolak F, Matur F, Sözen M, Ayanoğlu C, Winternitz JC

  6th Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium · İzmir, Türkiye · 10 July 2019

• Altitudinal effects on evolution of globin gene clusters and host adaptation on Nannospalax xanthodon (Turkish blind mole rat)

  Solak HM, Winternitz JC, Çolak F, Matur F, Yanchukov A

  5th Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium · İzmir, Türkiye · 21 July 2018