Research Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
BS, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Languages Spoken: TurkishBiography
My research focuses on the co-evolution of retroviruses with their mammalian hosts. I combine phylogenetics, genomics and transcriptomics with wet-lab strategies such as mutagenesis and protein biochemistry to study the host innate immune factors that restrict retroviruses as well as the evolution of domesticated genes from ancient retroviruses found in mammal genomes