Yağız Alagöz is interested in biosynthesis and function of linear and cyclic apocarotenoids on plant metabolism, and phenotype, and biosynthesis of zaxinone and zaxinone-derived metabolites and their application in crop plants. He researches In-planta transport and recognition mechanisms of carotenoid-derived hormones and signaling metabolites.

• Manipulating the Biosynthesis of Bioactive Compound Alkaloids for Next-Generation Metabolic Engineering in Opium Poppy Using CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology, Alagoz Y., Gurkok T., Zhang B., Unver T. Scientific Reports, 2016. (doi:10.1038/srep30910)
• cis-carotene biosynthesis, evolution and regulation in plants: The emergence of novel signaling metabolites, Alagoz Y., Nayak P., Dhami N., Cazzonelli C., Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2018. (doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2018.07.014)
• cis/trans Carotenoid extraction, purification, detection, quantification, and profiling in plant tissues, Alagoz Y., Dhami N., Mitchell C., Cazzonelli CI., In: Concepción MR, Welsch R (eds) Plant and food carotenoids: methods and protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2020, Springer, New York. (doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9952-11)
• A cis-carotene derived apocarotenoid regulates etioplast and chloroplast development, Cazzonelli CI., Hou X., Alagoz Y., Rivers J., Dhami N., Lee J., Shashikanth M., Pogson BJ. eLIFE , 2020. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.45310)
• Plant Apocarotenoids: From retrograde signaling to interspecific communication, Moreno JC., Mi J., Alagoz Y., Al-Babili S. The Plant Journal, 2020. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.15102)

• PhD, Plant Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Environmental Epigenetics Lab, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia, 2020

• 2021-present: Postdoctoral Fellow, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• 2020-2021: Academic Consultant (Remote), KAUST
• 2019-2020: New Generation Network (NGN) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Horticulture Plant Chemistry, National Vegetable Protected Cropping Centre (NVPCC), Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE), Western Sydney University, Australia

• 2018 Research Science Award in COMBIO2018, Australian Society for Plant Scientists (ASPS), ICC Sydney
  
• 2018 Poster Award, Gordon Research Conference on Carotenoids, Maine, USA
  
• 2018 Travel Grant for COMBIO2018, Australian Society for Plant Scientists (ASPS)
  
• 2017 Registration Support for Gene Editing of Crops Workshop, CSIRO Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) 
• 2016-2019 Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment-Postgraduate Research Award (HIE-PRA) with Tuition Fee Waiver Scholarship and OSHC, Western Sydney University
  
• 2013-15 Research Project Scholarship provided by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), International Olive Genome Consortium
  
• 2012 Erasmus Summer Internship Grant, National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit (NPARU) at the University of Worcester, Worcestershire (United Kingdom)
  
• 2012 Travel Grant for Virus-Induced Gene Silencing-Training School (VIGS-TS), UK, Rothamsted Research, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (EU-COST)
  
• 2011 Poster Award (2^nd Place), Biotech2011 National Biotechnology Student Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
  
• 2008-2013 Undergraduate Full Tuition Fee Waiver Scholarship (2008-2013), Council of Higher Education (CoHE) of Republic of Turkey (YÖK)

• Center for Desert Agriculture (CDA)
• Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE)