Kadriye CaglayanKadriye Çağlayan is full time professor in Plant Pathology Department of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University in Hatay-Turkey. She has published over 180 research publications and 5 book chapters on plant viruses, phytoplasmas and viroids. She was invited peaker at many national and international meetings and seminars, conveners of many international meetings organized by ISHS, member of scientific committees of several international meetings on plant virology, referee for numerous scientific international journals. She visited many important virology lab worldwide and collaborated with many important scientists. She and her team was involved in many international projects supported by EU, NATO and also Turkish Scientific Council (TUBITAK) in frame of several bilateral projects with different European countries. She is member of the Turkish Phytopathology Society and International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) . She is responsible of the Virology laboratory where she is leading a team of about 20 collaborators/students focusing on the diagnosis, epidemiology and control of plant diseases caused by viruses, viroids and phytoplasmas, applying biological approaches and molecular tools. At the moment she is head of Plant Protection Department in her university and also has been member of international projects evaluation advisory board member of TUBITAK in the last 2 years. Read More Read Less