Fatma Matpan Bekler is an Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Dicle University, Türkiye. She received her PhD degree in 2012 from the Department of Biology, Dicle University, Türkiye (guest researcher at Copenhagen University, Denmark), defending her thesis on the cloning, isolation, purification, and characterization of beta galactosidase from thermophilic bacteria. Her current research interests include the isolation and characterization of thermophilic bacteria and cloning as well as the purification of biotechnologically important thermotolerant enzymes