Biography:

Prof. Kence graduated from the departments of Zoology and Botany at Istanbul University, Faculty of Science in 1968. He got his Ph.D. at the department of Ecology and Evolution, SUNY at Stony Brook in 1973. since 1974, he has been a faculty member at the Department of Biology, Middle East Technical University . He served as the executive secretary of the Basic Sciences Research Group at the Scientific and Technical Council of Turkey and the Head of the Department of Biology. His current interests are Conservation Biology and Genetics of Honeybee, Apis mellifera L. in Turkey. He works also in Conservation Ecology and Genetics of Anatolian mouflon, Ovis gmelinii anatolica, wild goat, Capre aegagrus and endemic fish species of the genus Psedophoxinus.

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