Lab Members
Kadir Akdemir, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Akdemir is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Neurosurgery at MD Anderson. Raised in Turkey, he studied computer science and genetics at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. He obtained a Ph.D. from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for his work on p53 protein’s functions during human embryonic stem cell differentiation. He then completed his postdoctoral training with Dr. Andrew Futreal at MD Anderson’s Genomic Medicine department on cancer genomics and three-dimensional chromatin organization. He has an extensive research program focused on genomic alterations observed in human central nervous system tumors. His lab has developed a large set of techniques to study mechanisms and patterns of chromatin folding and somatic rearrangements that occur in cancer genomes during neoplastic transformation.
Allison Anderson
Data Manager
Lingqun Ye, Ph.D.
Computational Staff Scientist
Mesut Unal, Ph.D.
Computational Postdoctoral Fellow
Bo Zhao, Ph.D.
Computational Postdoctoral Fellow
Ines Martin Barrio
Masters Student
Kate Cho
Graduate Research Assistant
Nora Lawson
Research Assistant