Göknur Giner
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolGöknur Giner is a senior postdoctoral bioinformatician with 10 years’ experience applying statistics and machine learning to genomics, currently leading computational CRISPR genomics efforts at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Her work spans RNA-Seq, WES, CRISPR/Cas9 and single-cell assays, with a focus on unraveling the origins of aggressive breast cancers and mechanisms of metastasis. Trained to PhD level in applied mathematics and statistics, she builds and validates analytical methods that bridge experimental and computational teams. Beyond the lab, she co-founded R-Ladies Melbourne to grow diversity in the R community and completed leadership training through the veski inspiring women program, reflecting a commitment to mentorship and inclusive science. An uncommon strength is her combined deep statistical theory background and hands-on experience with patient-derived xenografts and circulating tumor cell experiments, enabling rigorous, biologically grounded analyses.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Statistics at Dokuz Eylül ÜniversitesiMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Operations Research, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Operations Research at Marmara ÜniversitesiDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Overall GPA 93/100, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Overall GPA 93/100 at İzmir Ekonomi ÜniversitesiMaster of Science (M.S.), Statistics, Master of Science (M.S.), Statistics at Ege Üniversitesi
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (9)
r-package9
visualization8
statistics8
r8
shiny6
data-visualization6
pipeline6
data-science6
bioconductor6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
goknurginer/XenoSplit
Sep 2015 - Sep 2019
Mapping pipeline
Contributions:32 commits, 5 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years
mappingpipeline
goknurginer/CuReSPR
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
Contributions:1 PR, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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