
The Team
Read about our computational biologists that run the laboratory.
Principal
Investigator

Mert Gur, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Computational and Systems Biology
Executive Director, Computational Biomedicine & Biotechnology Master’s Program
Research Fellow

Mert Golcuk, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Dept. of Computational and Systems Biology
Autobiography
Pending.

Sema Zeynep Yilmaz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Dept. of Computational and Systems Biology
Autobiography
Pending.
University of Pittsburgh Team

Fareeda Elinam Abu Juam
Ph.D. CandidateJoint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology
Autobiography
Pending.

Omer Bashir
M.S. StudentUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Dept. of Computational and Systems Biology
Autobiography
Pending.

Armani Manov
Undergraduate StudentUniversity of Pittsburgh
Computational Biology Program
Autobiography
Pending.
Istanbul Technical University Team

Reyhan Metin Akkaya
Ph.D. CandidateIstanbul Technical University
Molecular Biology-Genetics and
Biotechnology Department
Autobiography
Pending.

Ayla Eren
Ph.D. CandidateIstanbul Technical University
Molecular Biology-Genetics and
Biotechnology Department
Autobiography
Pending.

Ebru Tuncay
M.S. StudentIstanbul Technical University
Molecular Biology-Genetics and
Biotechnology Department
Autobiography
Pending.

Cihan Uğur Otçu
M.S. StudentIstanbul Technical University
Molecular Biology-Genetics and
Biotechnology Department
Autobiography
Pending.

Clara Xazal Buran
M.S. Graduate
Istanbul Technical University
Molecular Biology-Genetics and
Biotechnology Department
Autobiography
Pending.
Alumni

Ceren Kılınç
Ph.D. Student
Michigan State University
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Mohammad Amin Salehi Tabrizi
Ph.D. Student
Istanbul Technical
University

Elhan Taka
M.S. Graduate
Istanbul Technical University
Molecular Biology-Genetics and Biotechnology Department

Clara Xazal Buran
M.S. Graduate
Istanbul Technical University
Molecular Biology-Genetics and Biotechnology Department

Derman Baştürk
M.S Student
Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg
Integrated Life Sciences &
Research Graduate Student International Max Planck
Research School Physics and Medicine
(IMPRS-PM)

Ayten Dilara Gürsel
R&D Control and Regulatory Affairs Specialist
at EPSAN

Yaren Barutçu
Design Engineer at BAYKAR

Gözde Büyükaçıkgül
M.S. Graduate
Manufacturing Engineer at Turkish Aerospace (TUSAS)