Curriculum vitae personal Data Name Cafer

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name Cafer

Surname EKEN

Present occupation Member of staff (Professor)

Sex Male

Date of birth February 01, 1972

Nationality Turkish

Marital status Married, two children

Major fields Mycology, Phytopathology, Biological control, Microbial biotechnology

Current address Süleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, 32260 Isparta-Turkey

E-mail: cafereken@hotmail.com

Education

1992-1995 MSc., Atatürk University, The Graduate Institute of Science, Erzurum-Turkey (Department of Plant Protection)

1992. 
      BSc., Atatürk University, Faculty of Agriculture, Erzurum-Turkey (Department of Plant Protection)
      

1999. 
      Research Assistant, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Atatürk University, Erzurum-Turkey
      

2004- 2009 Member of Staff (Associate Professor), Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Atatürk University, Erzurum- Turkey

2009- 2012 Member of Staff (Professor), Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Atatürk University, Erzurum- Turkey

2012- present Member of Staff (Professor), Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta- Turkey

1993- present Phytopathological Society of Turkey

2000-present Biological Control Society of Turkey
Conferences and Symposiums Attended

18-24 September 1994 9 th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union, Kuşadası,Aydın-Turkey.

26-29 September 1995 The Seventh National Congress of Phytopathology, Adana-Turkey.

01-04 September 1997 The Second Turkish National Congress of Herbology, İzmir & Ayvalık-Turkey.

20-22 May 1998 The role of Mycorrhizae in soil quality and plant health (Workshop), Adana- Türkiye

01-03 Temmuz 1998 From the Past to the Future Oltu and its Environmental Symposium, Oltu, Erzurum, Turkey

14-18 September 1998 Eastern Anatolia Agricultural Congress, Erzurum-Turkey

28-30 September 1998 The Second Vegetable Symposium, Tokat-Turkey.

13-24 September 1999 Applied Molecular Biology Technics Course (PCR, RFLP, SSCP, ELISA, MIS, PAGE), Erzurum-Turkey

03-08 September 2001 The Ninth National Congress of Phytopathology, Tekirdağ-Turkey.

07-10 September 2004 1 st. International Rose Hip Conference, Gümüşhane, Turkey

29-31 October 2008 Workshop on Berry production in changing climate conditions and cultivation systems, Geisenheim, Germany.

4-8 October 2010 6^th Meeting Working Group “Integrated Protection in Quercus spp. Forests”, Tempio Pausania, Italy.

15- 17 September 2011 Botrytis-Sclerotinia Post-Genome Workshop, Lyon, France.

04- 06 October 2011 Integrated Control in Oilseed Crops, Göttingen, Germany.

19-20 April 2012 Towards integrated biological control, Uppsala, Sweden.

22 May 2012 64^th International Symposium on Crop Protection, Gent, Belgium.

21 May 2013 65^th International Symposium on Crop Protection, Gent, Belgium

15-16 February 2016 LS² Annual Meeting 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland

29 February-03 March 2016 The Coins 2016 - International Conference of Natural and Life Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania

13-16 March 2016 Annual Conference 2016 of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology, Jena, Germany

16-18 March 2016 ChemCYS 2016, the Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists, Blankenberge, Belgium

17 May 2016 68^th International Symposium on Crop Protection, Gent, Belgium

1. 
   Eken, C. and İ. Çoruh, 2007. First report of Ascochyta sonchi in Turkey. Plant Pathol., 56: 725.
   
2. 
   Eken, C., İ. Hasenekoğlu, İ. Çoruh, E. Demirer and E. Demirci, 2008. First Report of Fusarium dimerum on Solanum tuberosum in Turkey. Plant Pathol., 57: 378.
   
3. 
   Aslantaş, R., C. Eken and R. Hayat, 2008. Beauveria bassiana pathogenicity to the cherry slugworm, Caliroa cerasi (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) larvae. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology: 24 (1): 119-122.
   
4. 
   Eken, C. and R. Hayat, 2009. Preliminary evaluation of Cladosporium cladosporioides (Fresen.) de Vries in laboratory conditions, as a potential candidate for biocontrol of Tetranychus urticae Koch. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology: 25 (3): 489-492.
   
5. 
   Demirci, E., C. Eken and E. Dane, 2009. Biological control of Rhizoctonia solani on potato by Verticillium biguttatum. African Journal of Biotechnology: 8 (11): 2503-2507.
   
6. 
   Demirci, E., İ. Erper and C. Eken, 2009. Sclerotium hydrophilum newly reported on rice in Turkey. Plant Pathol., 58: 1176.
   
7. 
   Eken, C., A. Spanbayev, Z. Tulegenova and S. Abiev, 2009. First report of Truncatella angustata causing leaf spot on Rosa canina in Kazakhstan. Australasian Plant Disease Notes, 4: 44–45.
   
8. 
   Spanbayev, A., Tulegenova, Z., Abiev, S. and C. Eken, 2009. Rust Fungi on Plants in Gardens and Parks of Astana and Karaganda Provinces, Kazakhstan. Atatürk Ü. Zir. Fak. Der., 40 (2): 11-13.
   
9. 
   Demirci, E., İ. Erper and C. Eken, 2009. Sclerotium hydrophilum newly reported on rice in Turkey. Plant Pathol., 58: 1176.
   
10. 
    Güçlü, Ş., K. Ak, C. Eken, H. Akyol, R. Sekban, B. Beytut and R. Yıldırım, 2010. Pathogenicity of Lecanicillium muscarium against Ricania simulans. Bulletin of Insectology 63 (2): 243-246.
    
11. 
    Eken, C., 2011. Isolation, Identification and Preservation of Entomopathogenic Fungi. In: Microbial Insecticides, Principles and Aplications (Eds. Borgio, J.F., Sahayaraj, K. and Susurluk,I. A.). Nova Science Publishers, Inc., pp. 1-28.
    
12. 
    Eken, C., Ş. Güçlü and K. Ak, 2011. First report of Conidiobolus coronatus in Turkey. Mycotaxon, 115: 121-124.
    
13. 
    Eken, C., T. Genç and Ç. Kaymak, 2011. First report of root rot of faba bean caused by Rhizoctonia zeae in Turkey. Journal of Plant Pathology, 93 (4): 71.
    
14. 
    Eken, C., S. Bulut, A. Öztürk, E. Dane, Ö. Çağlar and E. Demirci, 2011. Screening of wheat germ plasm for resistance to Microdochium nivale under field conditions. The Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences, 21(1): 72-77.
    
15. 
    Demirci, E., E. Dane and C. Eken, 2011. In vitro antagonistic activity of fungi isolated from sclerotia on potato tubers against Rhizoctonia solani. Turkish Journal of Biology, 35: 457-462.
    
16. 
    Okalebo, J., G.Y. Yuen, R.A. Drijber, E.E. Blankenship, C. Eken and J.L. Lindquist, 2011. Biological suppression of velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) in an Eastern Nebraska soil. Weed Science, 59: 155-161.
    
17. 
    Eken, C., T. Genç and Ç. Kaymak, 2011. First report of root rot of faba bean caused by Rhizoctonia zeae in Turkey. Journal of Plant Pathology, 93 (4): 71.
    
18. 
    Lyange, E.R., C. Eken, A.D. Spanbayev and T. Genç, 2011. First report of Cytospora rosarum on Rosa canina in Turkey. Journal of Plant Pathology, 93 (4): 80.
    
19. 
    Tuncer S., Eken C. ,2013. Anastomosis grouping of Rhizoctonia solani and binucleate Rhizoctonia spp. isolated from pepper in Erzincan, Turkey. Plant Protect. Sci., 49: 130–134.
    
20. 
    Eken, C. and Yuen, G., 2014. Biocontrol of common root rot of wheat with Lysobacter enzymogenes and binucleate Rhizoctonia. Romanian Agricultural Research, 31: 309-314.
    
21. 
    Eken C., S. Bulut, T. Genç and A. Öztürk., 2014. Effects of different fertilizer sources and sowing density on root and crown rot disease agents of organic wheat. Journal of Agricultural Faculty of Gaziosmanpasa University: 31 (1), 12-19.
    
22. 
    Ak, K., C. Eken, Ş. Güçlü, T. Genç and R. Sekban, 2014. Laboratory and field evaluations of entomopathogenic fungus Conidiobolus coronatus for control of Ricania simulans (Walker) (Ricaniidae: Hemiptera). Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 24: 455-459.
    
23. 
    Ak, K., Ş. Güçlü, C. Eken ve R. Sekban, 2015. Ricania simulans (Walker, 1851) (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae) a new pest for Turkey. Turkish Journal of Entomology, 39 (2): 179-186.
    
24. 
    Eken, C., Spanbayev, A., Tulegenova, Z., Yechshzhanov, T., 2016. First report of Nigrospora oryzae on wheat in Kazakhstan. Plant Disease, 100 (4): 861.
    
25. 
    Karyağdı, Ö.F. and C. Eken, 2016. Pathogenicity of Fusarium spp. Isolated from Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris) Plants in Pasinler District of Erzurum. Süleyman Demirel University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences, 20 (2): 261-265.
    
26. 
    Genç Kesimci, T., C. Eken and H.Ç. Kaymak, 2016. Effect of different sowing dates on root rot and wilt fungi of faba bean (Vicia faba) varieties. Mediterranean Agricultural Sciences, 29(3): 93-97.