Deniz Istipliler

Visiting Scholar

• Cohort Postdocs and Visiting Scientists
• Tenure 2022-2023
• Now Assistant Professor Ege University
• ORCID 0000-0002-0887-1121

Deniz joined the lab in 2022 after completing his PhD at Ege University Izmir, Turkey. At the University of Nebraska Deniz is applying high-throughput phenotyping tools and machine learning approaches to study the basis of complex traits in maize.

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In the News

• September 22, 2025 CSA News Highlight
  Deniz İştipliler’s paper on how maize hybrid leaf spectra differ from their inbred parents featured in CSA News.
• March 28, 2025 Deniz İştipliler returns for seminar
  Dr. Deniz İştipliler, a former scientist in our lab, now a professor at Ege University in Turkey, returned to UNL as part of the Agronomy and Horticulture Seminar Series, discussing his work optimizing agricultural water use efficiency.

Recent Publications

• Istipliler D, Tross MC, Bouwens B, Jin H, Yufeng Ge, Yang J, Mural RV, Schnable JC (2025) Heritability, heterosis, and hybrid/inbred classification ability of maize leaf hyperspectral signals under changing soil nitrogen. Crop Science doi: 10.1002/csc2.70073