Emrah Kırdök
Assistant Professor at Mersin Üniversitesi / Mersin University
Mersin, Mersin, Turkey
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Top SchoolEmrah Kırdök is an Assistant Professor of Biotechnology with nine years of experience turning high-throughput sequencing data—from Neolithic sediments to modern bioreactors—into reproducible biological insight. Trained in molecular biology and genetics (PhD) and seasoned through postdoctoral work in Istanbul and Bordeaux, he blends wet-lab expertise with computational genomics, machine learning, and systems biology. He led development of aMeta, an damage-aware metagenomic workflow, and designed authentication pipelines for ancient metagenomes used to interrogate Stone Age oral microbiomes and human DNA from chewed birch pitch. At Mersin University he runs a cross-disciplinary bioinformatics group, teaching R/Python data analysis while deploying nf-core and custom pipelines on national HPC resources for projects ranging from dental calculus profiling to metabolic modeling of Pseudomonas putida. His work uniquely ties archaeological context to modern systems biology, reflecting a talent for framing biological questions across time scales. He maintains active international collaborations and regularly mentors students seeking to bridge computation, molecular biology, and archaeology.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Markes, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Markes at Gebze Technical UniversityMaster's degree, Plant Biotechnology, Molecular Markers, Cryopreservation, Master's degree, Plant Biotechnology, Molecular Markers, Cryopreservation at Gebze Institute of Technology
English, Turkish
Github Skills (32)
internet10
bioinformatics7
cryptocurrency6
genomics6
api6
binance6
sequencing6
python6
infectious-diseases5
fm-index5
sequence-alignment5
classification5
snakemake4
classifier4
automated-trading3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
emrahkirdok/internship-project
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
kirdoklab/aMeta-workshop
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:97 commits, 62 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
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