Gulhan Kaya, lab manager

Education

• M.S. Medical Genetics, Fatih University, Ankara, Turkey (2013)

• B.S. Biology, Nigde University, Turkey (2006)

Professional Experience

• Associate Specialist - Dennis Lab, Genome Center, UC Davis (2018-current)

• Lecturer – Vocational School of Health Sciences, Turgut Ozal University, Ankara, Turkey (2013-2015)

• Researcher– Medical Genetics Lab, Turgut Ozal University, Ankara, Turkey (2012-2013)

• Medical Laboratory Technician, Medical Genetics Lab, Fatih University, Ankara, Turkey (2009-2012)

• Medical Laboratory Technician, Biochemistry, Hematology, Serology and Microbiology labs, Fatih University, Ankara, Turkey (2006-2009)

Interests

• Neurological diseases

• Molecular Genetics

• Genome organization/regulation

Hobbies

• Hiking

• Traveling

• Gardening

Recent Publications

• Evaluation of CRISPR gene-editing tools in zebrafish. Uribe-Salazar JM, Kaya G, Sekar A, Weyenberg KB, Ingamells C, Dennis MY. BMC Genomics 2022.

• Diverse molecular mechanisms contribute to differential expression of human duplicated genes. Shew CJ, Carmona-Mora P, Soto DC, Mastoras M, Roberts E, Rosas J, Jagannathan D, Kaya G, O’Geen H, Dennis MY. MBE. 2021.

• Assessment of autism zebrafish mutant models using a high-throughput larval phenotyping platform. Colón-Rodríguez A, Uribe-Salazar JM, Weyenberg KB, Sriram A, Quezada A, Kaya G, Jao E, Radke B, Lein PJ, Dennis MY. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2020.

• Telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome. Miga KH*, Koren S*, Rhie A, Vollger MR, Gershman A, Bzikadze A, Brooks S, Howe E, Porubsky D, Logsdon GA, Schneider VA, Potapova T, Wood J, Chow W, Armstrong J, Fredrickson J, Pak E, Tigyi K, Kremitzki M, Markovic C, Maduro V, Dutra A, Bouffard GG, Chang AM, Hansen NF, Wilfert AB, Thibaud-Nissen F, Schmitt AD, Belton JM, Selvaraj S, Dennis MY, Soto DC, Sahasrabudhe R, Kaya G, Quick J, Loman NJ, Holmes N, Loose M, Surti U, Risques RA, Lindsay TAG, Fulton R, Hall I, Paten B, Howe K, Timp W, Young A, Mullikin JC, Pevzner PA, Gerton JL, Sullivan BA, Eichler EE, Phillippy AM. Nature. Jul 14. 2020.

• Identification of Structural Variation in Chimpanzees Using Optical Mapping and Nanopore Sequencing. Soto DC*, Shew C*, Mastoras M, Schmidt JM, Sahasrabudhe R, Kaya G, Andrés AM, Dennis MY. Genes (Basel). 2020 Mar 4;11(3).