Işıl Takan - Post-doc

isil.takan@ki.se

Publications: Pubmed, Google Scholar

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Daub Lab at Karolinska Institute. I have a background in system biology and bioinformatics, with a focus on cancer biology and evolution. I received my PhD from Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Institute, in 2022, where I applied computational biology approaches to investigate the molecular mechanisms of cancer across taxonomic groups. During my PhD, I also worked as a visiting research assistant in Pavlopoulou Lab at the IBG Center and gained experience in various bioinformatics tools and techniques, such as phylogenetic analysis, high-throughput data analysis, biological network analysis, text mining, database management, and web design. I am passionate about learning new things and solving challenging problems. I enjoy working in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. The idea of searching for answers to questions about life by comparing different taxonomic groups is quite fascinating. I am incredibly excited to be a part of the project called Molecular Origins of Human Psychiatric Disorders: DogGenomeAnnotation Project to understand ourselves and, in essence, nature by looking at nature itself in Daub lab.

Tahmina Akther - PhD Student

tahmina.akhter@ki.se

I am a PhD student in the CDA lab. I have a general background in computer science (Bachelor degree) and completed my Masters in Computational and Systems Biology at KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm. I worked as a research engineer in the department of Computation Biology at KTH involved in a project about parallelism in neural networks using the Blue Gene Super Computer. My PhD project goal is to understand and characterize differences between severe and controlled asthma. The aim is to find asthma biomarkers for steroid response using bioinformatics methodsand also to identify key regulatory mechanism (enhancers, transcription factors and promoters) of genes linked to severe and mild asthma. I have programming skills (R, C++, Python and Java etc.), use different algorithms and bioinformatics software as well as professional experience in software development. I am highly motivated to do research and my strength is my dedication to work.

Rasha Fahad - PhD Student

Rasha.fj@gmail.com

I got my master degree in Biotechnology from the University of Queensland, AU in 2015 and joined Carsten’s group in 2019 as a Phd student. In my research I will study the RNA profile of different types of breast cancer tissues using spatial transcriptomics. I’ll investigate breast cancer types based on the pathological characterizations combined with their RNA profiles and I’ll identify breast cancer associated risks using sequencing data (genomic variants) and molecular profiling.

• Anna Kerber, Master student (2022)

• Audrey Piraud, Summer intern (2022)

• Sabina Gansberger, Master student (2022)

• Matthias Hörtenhuber, PhD student (2015-2022)

• Abdul Kadir Mukarram, PhD Student (2015-2021)

• Enrichetta Mileti, PhD Student (2014-2021)

• Fiona Roß, Master Student (2021)

• Kelvin Kwok, Postdoc (2017-2021)

• Ahmad Ali, Master student (2020)

• Filip Runebou Läärä, Master student (2020)

• Irene Stevens, Bioinformatics Lab Technician (2018-2019)

• Marine Tessarech, Master student (2019)

• Michaël Dong, Bioinformatics Lab Technician (2016-2018)

• Amitha Raman, Lab engineer (2013-2018)

• Niyaz Yoosuf, Postdoc (2014-2018)

• Jiarui Mi, Master student (2017-2018)

• Marta Dias, Erasmus master student (2015-2016)

• Johanna Labate, Erasmus summer student (2015)

• Olga Hrydziuszko, Postdoc (2012-2014)

• Nancy Yu, Postdoc (2012-2014)

• Wenjing Kang, Masters student (Feb-June 2014)

• Jacqueline Nowak, Masters student (April-August 2014)

• Kubra Altinel, Erasmus summer student (2014)