Dr. Gunes Ozhan earned her Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Middle East Technical University in 2003, and her PhD in 2009 with her thesis on the molecular evolution of embryonic development in arthropods, which was carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen. She completed her post-doctoral studies on developmental biology and cell signaling using the zebrafish model at the Biotechnology Center of Dresden University of Technology. Afterwards, Dr. Ozhan joined the Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center in 2014, and established her own independent research laboratory as well as a zebrafish facility. Upon her return, she has been successively awarded a Reintegration Fellowship of TUBITAK, EMBO Installation Grant, L'Oréal Turkey For Women In Science award, Academy of Science BAGEP award, and Turkish Academy of Sciences GEBIP award. Her major research interests include understanding the regulatory mechanisms of Wnt signaling and the biology of tissue regeneration using the zebrafish model. Currently, she is an associate professor at Dokuz Eylul University, and a principal investigator at the Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center.