CV

Doctor of Philosophy, Bioinformatics

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

• Investigating the function of cis-regulatory element networks on gene transcription.

Master of Science, Computational Sciences and Engineering

Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

• Examining the androgen receptor cis-regulatory element network in prostate cancer cells and their intrinsic potentials to discover individual regulatory element’s role in the network.

Bachelor of Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

• Developing a Python based program which searches for similar genomic patterns of genomes of specified microorganism groups on ancient DNA data to draw a conclusion about the microbiome of the sample

Graduate Research Assistant

Vancouver Prostate Center (University of British Columbia), Vancouver, Canada

Graduate Research Assistant

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

• Examining the androgen receptor cis-regulatory element network in prostate cancer cells and their intrinsic potentials to discover individual regulatory element’s role in the network.

Undergrad student

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

• Comparing brain transcriptomes of human and chimpanzee to suggest positively selected genes for advanced thinking ability of humans, and case analysis on WGS data of a patient with a rare genetic disease to report candidate disease associated variations

Intern

GeoGenetics (University of Copenhagen), Copenhagen, Denmark

• Determining pathogenic microorganism species that cause zoonotic disease in Sierra Leone and Congo Democratic Republic by analyzing metagenomic data of small mammals

Director

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

• Developing a Python based program which searches for similar genomic patterns of genomes of specified microorganism groups on ancient DNA data to draw a conclusion about the microbiome of the sample.

rnaseq-seq pipeline

• Wow! an RNAseq pipeline!

chip-seq pipeline

• Wow! a ChIPseq pipeline!

starrseq-seq pipeline

• Wow! a STARRseq pipeline!

bluegill

• New genomics visualization library!

• EMBO Conference - Full Travel Grant
• Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering (GSSE) Academic Excellence Award 2022