Tuğçe Aktaş

Tuğçe Aktaş is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the interactions between transposons and host genomes, particularly how these "selfish genetic elements" influence RNA processing networks and genomic stability. She leads the Quantitative RNA Biology lab, which investigates transposon suppression strategies and their evolutionary impact on transcriptomes.