CV

Education

• B.S. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016
• M.S. Department of Bioinformatics, Informatics Insitute, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2019
• Ph.D Genetics GIDP, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA (present)

Work experience

• August-December 2019: Research Scholar
  • Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Arizona
  • Phylogeny construction for translation factors
  • Supervisor: Dr. Betül Kaçar

Skills

• Bioinformatics
  • Programming: Python, R
  • Operating systems: Linux/Unix, Unix clusters, MacOS
• Population Genetics and ancient DNA analysis
  • SNP calling, PMD score analysis, mitochondrial and X-chromsome contamination control, FST and PBS analysis for selection
• Phylogenetics
  • IQTREE, RAxML, PAML

Publications

Variation and Functional Impact of Neanderthal Ancestry in Western Asia

Taşkent, Ö., Alioğlu, N. D., Fer, E., Dönertaş, H. M., Somel, M., Gökçümen, Ö. (2017). " Variation and Functional Impact of Neanderthal Ancestry in Western Asia, Genome Biology and Evolution. " Genome Biology and Evolution . 9(12)3516-3524.

Broad interests reap benefits for science

Adamowicz BM, ..., Fer E, ... (2018). "Broad interests reap benefits for science." Science. 361(6397).

Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 variants with INSaFLU and galaxyproject

Utkueri, Y., Fer, E., Bozlak, E., Kutnu, M., Kara, N. S., & Yilmaz, F. (2020, May 14). Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 variants with INSaFLU and galaxyproject. https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/9d3cz

Teaching

DjangoGirls Ankara Mentor, 2017

Workshop on Population Genetics with R, 2018

DjangoGirls Ankara Mentor, 2018

Service and leadership

• Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams