Bioinformatician. Python, R, Unix, SQL, Aws, Bwa, Gatk, Docker, Igv

Gufran Gungor 781-***-**** ********@*****.***

AUTHORIZED TO WORK FOR ANY US EMPLOYER

EDUCATION

Boğaziçi (Bosphorous) University Istanbul, Turkey

Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Genetics January 2019 WORK EXPERIENCE

MITEE Labs Istanbul, Turkey

Founder and CEO Apr. 2017 – Current

● Leading a team of 7 employees within three teams: business development, transformation and expression lab, and protein purification lab to create a new, organic pesticide for use in the poultry industry

● Designed proteins utilizing analysis of WGS and RNA-seq and interpreted results using Uniprot and PDB database with Python

● Received and currently managing $200,000 USD of seed investment as of July 2019 Genomize, Biotechnology Company Istanbul, Turkey

Bioinformatician Jan. 2019 – Mar. 2020

● Optimized somatic analysis pipeline which increased variant calling accuracy by 20%

● Created a pseudogene filter tool by utilizing CIGAR strings from bam files with Python to realign reads filtered through our algorithm to genes rather than pseudogenes

● Built full Copy Number Analysis pipeline using GATK, AWS, pandas, and Docker; in addition, coded in R to compare CNV algorithms

● Presented my research findings on comparison of somatic pipelines which utilized BWA, GATK and Freebayes with various pipelines at the Turkish National Bioinformatics Conference RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Polymer Research Center Lab Istanbul, Turkey

Student Researcher Mar. 2017 – Dec. 2018

● Worked on individual research projects under the observation of Dr. Turkan Haliloğlu at the PRC lab at Boğaziçi University

● Developed my own code in Matlab to perform original simulation techniques for polymer dynamics

● Coded in Python to research new orientational based ramachandran plot for protein folding University of Pittsburgh, CDAR Pittsburgh, PA, USA Student Researcher July 2016 – Sept. 2016

● Developed excel databases for the multıple myeloma project under the supervision of Dr. Xiang-Qun Xie

● Attended and contributed to lab meetings and learned the basics of protein docking softwares such as Autodock and Sybyl SKILLS

Coding Languages:Python, R, SQL, Matlab

Softwares: BWA, GATK, caret, Docker, AWS, IGV, Freebayes, VMD, NAMD, Pymol, Nanome, Geneious Laboratory:Transformation, transfection, cloning, PCR, RE digestion, flow cytometry, protein purification, western blotting Languages:English, Turkish

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)

AWARDS

Big Bang Challenge, Istanbul Technical University 2018

● Accepted from 25,000 total applications into an entrepreneurship incubation program sponsored by the Istanbul Technical University Seed Pre-Incubation Center - the third largest incubator center in the Europe

● Qualified as finalist out of 300 teams for the Big Bang Start-up Challenge to enter investment seed rounds 3rd place in the physics division International Science Olympiads 2012

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