Erdal Toprak

Erdal Toprak is a Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, specializing in evolutionary biology, biophysics, and computational biology. His research focuses on the genetic and molecular basis of phenotypic diversity, particularly antibiotic resistance evolution and molecular motor protein dynamics.

Toprak earned his Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied molecular motor proteins with Paul R. Selvin. He later joined Roy Kishony's Lab at Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral research fellow to investigate antibiotic resistance evolution.

• 2017: Mechanisms of bacterial survival under high antibiotic doses
• 2016: Microfluidic protein quantification techniques
• 2015: Evolutionary determinants of drug resistance

His publications reveal a strong emphasis on antibiotic resistance evolution (2012-2017) and single-molecule imaging (2006-2009). Key methodologies include microfluidics, long-term evolution experiments, and high-resolution fluorescence imaging.