Bioinformatician, Human-being, Cat sympathizer

Education

2014-2020 BSc, Molecular Biology and Genetics (GPA: 3.⁶⁵⁄₄.00, High Honor) at Bilkent University—Ankara, Turkey

Currently

Graduate Student at Sabancı University Adebali lab

Research Experience

Feb 2014-June 2020 at Bilkent University

Worked under Assistant Professor Serkan Belkaya. I wrote a script using R language to filter whole exome sequencing results of a patient to identify set of candidate mutations that could be the cause of a rare disease and later evaluated these mutations by fitting them to various disease models and by literature search.

Feb 2014-June 2020 at Bilkent University

Worked under Associate Professor Özlen Konu. I contributed to the online tool developed for RNA sequencing data analysis. Specifically, I worked on development of heatmaps and KEGG pathway gene enrichment analysis. I used R language and various packages like EdgeR, limma, and Shiny.

Sep 2019-Jan 2020 at Bilkent University

Worked under Assistant Professor Onur Çizmecioğlu. I established and maintained prostate cancer cells (LNCaP) with doxycycline inducible PTEN expression.

Research interests

Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Cancer Biology, GPCRs, Evolutionary Biology

Skills

MATLAB, R (Shiny, plotly), Python (pandas), Java

Western Blotting

qRT-PCR, conventional PCR, RNA and DNA purification

Cell culturing methods (cell freezing, passaging, viral transfection)

Achievements and Honors

2011 Bronze Medal, 18th National Biology Olympiads, TUBİTAK