Education

• 2023-Present Ph.D. Sabancı University

  • Major: Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering

• 2018-2021 M.Sc. Dokuz Eylul University/Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Institute

  • Major: Molecular Biology and Genetics

• 2018 B.S. Istanbul Technical University

  • Major: Molecular Biology and Genetics

Publications

• Guneri-Sozeri, P. Y., Özden-Yılmaz, G., Kisim, A., Cakiroglu, E., Eray, A., Uzuner, H., Karakülah, G., Pesen-Okvur, D., Senturk, S., & Erkek-Ozhan, S. (2023). FLI1 and FRA1 transcription factors drive the transcriptional regulatory networks characterizing muscle invasive bladder cancer. Communications biology, 6(1), 199. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04561-3

• Mazi, F. A., Cakiroglu, E., Uysal, M., Kalyoncu, M., Demirci, D., Sozeri, P. Y. G., Yilmaz, G. O., Ozhan, S. E., & Senturk, S. (2023). The paracaspase MALT1 is a downstream target of Smad3 and potentiates the crosstalk between TGF-β and NF-kB signaling pathways in cancer cells. Cellular signalling, 105, 110611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cellsig.2023.110611

• Guneri-Sozeri, P. Y., & Erkek-Ozhan, S. (2022). Identification of the gene expression changes and gene regulatory aspects in ELF3 mutant bladder cancer. Molecular biology reports, 49(4), 3135–3147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-022-07145-2

• Eray, A., Güneri, P. Y., Yılmaz, G. Ö., Karakülah, G., & Erkek-Ozhan, S. (2020). Analysis of open chromatin regions in bladder cancer links β-catenin mutations and Wnt signaling with neuronal subtype of bladder cancer. Scientific reports, 10(1), 18667. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75688-0