Assistant Professor
MD Anderson Cancer Center
I am a computational biologist and a tenure-track assistant professor at the Neurosurgery and Genomic Medicine departments of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. I completed my post-doctoral fellow training in Dr. Andrew Futreal's group studying the relationship between spatial chromatin organization and somatic mutations in cancer genomes (Akdemir et al. Nature Genetics 2020 Feb and 2020 Oct). In my group, we are analyzing multi-omics datasets from primary human tumors such as long-read whole genome sequencing, genome-wide chromatin organization (Hi-C) and single-cell ATAC-sequencing from common (i.e. glioblastoma) or rare (i.e. chordoma) CNS tumor types to investigate how tumor evolution shapes the organization of chromatin in cancer cells and tumor microenvironment.
