Bilgin Sonay Tugce
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
I am a Forschungskredit post-doc fellow in the University of Zurich in Evolutionary Genetics Lab. I am in Zurich since 2010, when I came here to carry out my PhD in Andreas Wagner’s lab to work on robustness and phenotypic variation in various levels of biological systems.F1.medium.
Research Interest
I mainly work on DNA tandem repeats and their effect on gene expression in various contexts, including gene regulation evolution and cancer. You can check out our recent paper on great ape tandem repeats and their contribution in gene expression evolution, which got the cover in Genome Research. Also, another study on tandem repeat instability and its impact on cancer phenotype is out. I consider this publication as preliminary and plan to continue working on it, as it has highly intersting and promising results on colorectal cancer evoultion.
