Prof. Dr. Meral Birbir, Head of Department of Plant Diseases and Microbiology, was elected by the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP)  as a member of the International Committee on  Systematics of Prokaryotes  in representation of  Turkish Society of Microbiology.

ICSP is an international committee that oversees the naming of prokaryotes, expresses opinions about the taxonomy of prokaryotes, makes revisions in bacteriological codes and cooperates with other microbiology commissions in this field. For further information about the committee, visit https://www.the-icsp.org/.

We congratulated Prof.Dr. Meral Birbir, who completed her undergraduate education at Marmara University and worked in the same university throughout her academic career.