Biography
Fikri Avci, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Emory University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2022, Dr. Avci was an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of Georgia.
Dr. Avci is a member of the Cancer Immunology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute and a member of the Emory Vaccine Center.
Education
Dr. Avci earned his PhD in Bioorganic Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He completed his postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Titles & Roles
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Associate Professor, Department of BiochemistryEmory University School of Medicine
Research
Dr. Avci's lab is an interdisciplinary research group at the interface of carbohydrate research and immunology. Our objective is to explore the treatment of and protection from infectious diseases and cancer by understanding key molecular and cellular interactions between the components of the immune system and carbohydrate antigens associated with microbes or cancers.
Publications
| Title/Journal | Authors | Publication Date |
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The immune interactions of gut glycans and microbiota in health and disease. Molecular microbiology |
M Demirturk, MS Cinar, FY Avci | 05/04/2024 |
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Serine-rich repeat proteins: well-known yet little-understood bacterial adhesins. Journal of bacteriology |
MS Cinar, A Niyas, FY Avci | 01/25/2024 |
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Tn antigen interactions of macrophage galactose-type lectin (MGL) in immune function and disease. Glycobiology |
B Tumoglu, A Keelaghan, FY Avci | 12/25/2023 |
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Emerging vaccine strategies against the incessant pneumococcal disease. NPJ vaccines |
JA Duke, FY Avci | 08/17/2023 |
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Prevalence and Homology of the Pneumococcal Serine-Rich Repeat Protein at the Global Scale. Microbiology spectrum |
J Aceil, A Venkat, E Pan, N Kannan, FY Avci | 06/15/2023 |
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Advanced functional materials |
S Zhou, Z Zhen, AV Paschall, L Xue, X Yang, AG Bebin-Blackwell, Z Cao, W Zhang, M Wang, Y Teng, G Zhou, Z Li, FY Avci, W Tang, J Xie | 02/10/2021 |