Ilknur Aktan
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Ilknur is an Anatomy Demonstrator in Veterinary Basic Sciences Department.
Biography
Following graduation from Veterinary Faculty in 1999 from Istanbul University, Ilknur worked shortly as a Vet in a small animal practice and a poultry farm. She then travelled to England to pursue a postgraduate career. Ilknur joined the VLA in 2002 to carry out voluntary work for one year.
In 2003 she was offered a PhD studentship which was funded by DEFRA, to study the interaction of E. coli O157:H7 with other attaching and effacing E. coli in sheep. Ilknur was registered at the University of Liverpool in the department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences and carried out her research at the VLA in Surrey in Professor Martin Woodward's work group in the Department of Food and Environmental Safety.
Ilknur took a three year post at the RVC in 2008 as a post doctoral research associate with Prof Fiona Cunningham researching the antimicrobial properties of equine platelets and its interaction with neutrophils. While researching platelets Ilknur helped to demonstrate Anatomy to RVC students.
Ilknur is currently full time Anatomy Demonstrator.
Selected Publications
R. M. La Ragione, A. Best, I. Aktan, F. A. Clifton-Hadley , A. H. Dugdale , U. Weyer , T. Crawley, P. Townsend, W. A. Cooley, L. Johnson, A. Wangoo , M. J. Woodward , A. D. Wales (2011). Escherichia coli O115 forms fewer attaching and effacing lesions in the ovine colon in the presence of E. coli O157:H7. Research in Veterinary Science (Epub ahead of print).
I. Aktan, B. Dunkel and F. M. Cunningham (2011). PKC isoenzymes in equine platelets and stimulus induced activation. Vet Immunology and Immunopathology. 141, 276-282.
I. Aktan, M. J. Woodward, R. M. La Ragione (2009). Interaction between attaching-effacing Escherichia coli O26:K60 and O157:H7 in young lambs. Research in Veterinary Science. 87, 13-15.
I. Aktan, B. Carter, H. Wilking, R. M. La Ragione, L. Wieler, M. J. Woodward and M. F. Anjum (2007). The influence of geographical origin, Host animal and Stx gene on the virulence characteristics of Escherichia coli O26 strains. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 56, 1431-1439.
I. Aktan, R. M. La Ragione, G. C. Pritchard, M. J. Woodward (2007). Prevalence of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli serogroup O103 in Orphan lambs on an open farm in eastern England. Veterinary Record. 161, 386-388.
T. Ooka, M. A. Vieira, Y. Ogura, L. Beutin, R. M. La Ragione, P. M. Van Diemen, M. P. Stevens, I. Aktan, S. Cawthraw, A. Best, R. T. Hernandes, G. Krause, T. A. Gomes, T. Hayashi, G. Frankel (2007). Characterisation of TCCP2 carried by atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 271, 126-135.
D. F. Twomey, I. Aktan, J. D. Boon, R. J. Higgins, R. M. La Ragione, G. D. Preston (2005). Streptococcus bovis biotype I meningoencephalitis in an alpaca (Lama pacos) cria in the United Kingdom. Veterinary Record. 160, 337-339.
I. Aktan, R. M. La Ragione, M. J. Woodward (2007). Colonization, persistence, and tissue tropism of Escherichia coli O26 in conventionally reared weaned lambs. Applied Environmental Microbiolology. 73, 691-698.
I. Aktan, K. A. Sprigings, R. M. La Ragione, L. M. Faulkner, G. A. Paiba and M. J. Woodward (2004). Characterisation of attaching-effacing Escherichia coli isolated from animals at slaughter in England and Wales. Veterinary Microbiology. 102, 43-53.