Fikret Isik is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of North Carolina State University Cooperative Tree Improvement Program. Dr. Isik has been awarded with USDA Secretary’s Honor Award, NATO post-doctoral fellowships, and the Turkish Higher Education Council honorary Associate Professor of genetics. He is currently involved in the following areas of research: 1) genomic prediction methods in forest tree breeding and development of tree breeding strategies for genomic era; 2) development of a quantitative model of the pathways and regulation of lignin biosynthesis in poplar and 3) pathogen by pine genotype interactions in the fusiform rust – Pinus taeda pathosystem.
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