“When it comes to wound care, I found out honey is one of the best healers on the market,” Ferhat Ozturk said. honey 🐝
Dr. Ferhat Ozturk works with biology majors Jada Woodson and Adriana Mendoza during a Microbial Diversity class at the University of Texas at San Antonio Tuesday.Students and staff from the University of Texas at San Antonio are buzzing about some pretty sweet research happening at their campus on the healing properties of local honey.
Thus far Ozturk has collected about 60 honey samples from across Texas, 35 of which are from the San Antonio area. Ozturk’s students have learned to spread micro amounts of bacteria on Petri dishes, allowing them to grow for a few days before introducing different honey samples and observing the effects.Success! You're on the list.
“Dr. Ozturk is a really passionate researcher, I can see it in the way he talks about honey,” Muniz said. “He’s also really passionate about teaching; he’s taken the time to show us how to do everything.” Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Creighton University and a position as a research associate at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Ozturk was invited back to his hometown of Samsun, Turkey by the president of Canik Basari University to be an assistant professor and the department chair of the university’s department of molecular biology and genetics. From there, Ozturk became a high school teacher in the San Antonio area.
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