Research Associate at the Soil Borne Diseases Program at CIMMYT, Turkey. Gul got her PhD degree from the University of Osmangazi, Eskisehir-Turkey, in 2009. Her PhD thesis was entitled as: ‘The Identification of resistance and genetic control of Fusarium crown rot in wheat’. She joined CIMMYT International Soil Borne Pathogens (SBPs) Program in Turkey to conduct work on SBPs especially the Dryland Root Rot disease (Crown Rot) caused by Fusarium culmorum on wheat in 2006 as well as screening wheat germplasm against cereal nematodes i.e., the Cereal Cyst Nematodes (Heterodera spp) and the Root Lesion Nematodes (Pratylenchus spp). She is highly involved in writing peer reviewed articles, capacity building activities, international meetings, co-supervising national and international students, training researchers from many countries.
