Mehmet Candas is a scientist, educator and occasional multimedia artist at The University of Texas at Dallas.  He teaches at the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.  His courses include Biochemistry, Molecular Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Proteomics, Cellular Microbiology, Modern Biology, and Human Body Systems.  Previously he served as Research Manager at the Center for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. At this position, he conducted research on cell adhesion receptors and bacterial toxins.  He also helped start a company focusing on agricultural and environmental biotechnology.  As the scientific co-founder and internal consultant to the company, he provided strategic and operational leadership for the R&D projects.  He implemented a technology platform for genomic-based product development.  The platform integrated bioinformatics and proteomics applications with laboratory robotics, enabling processing of multi-species genetic sequences to select highly-specific DNA primers by discriminating protein conserved domains in complex samples. The technology facilitated high-throughput cloning and construction of gene libraries utilized to identify expression-ready cDNA clones, which were used to screen drug and insecticide targets in cell-based functional assays. https://personal.utdallas.edu/~candas/   https://profiles.utdallas.edu/mehmet.candas