About Me

Hey there, I am Onur! I am a PhD candidate in Computational Oncology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) advised by Prof. Marcel Reinders and Asst. Prof. Erik van den Akker and co-supervised by Assoc. Prof Marieke Griffioen.

I am currently working on better stratification of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patients using single-cell technologies and machine learning models. I am particularly interested in understanding how things change with AML in the epigenetic and transcriptional landscape.

Previously, I was a Computational Biologist at The Jackson Laboratory as a member of Ucarlab and worked on human&mice immune system aging. I had my MSc in Computer Science (2020) and BSc in Electrics and Electronics Engineering (2017) departments at Bilkent University.

Recent News

• [1 July 2022] Our poster accepted to ECCB 2022 (I will present it in July in Sitges, Barcelona)
• [15 May 2022] Our poster accepted to ISMB in Translational Medicine COSI (I will present it in July in Madison, Wisconsin) - Cancelled
• [17 Dec 2021] Our work on the comparison of mice and human immune system aging is available as a preprint.
• [1 April 2021] Started my PhD at LUMC