Biography
2022-present: ScitoVation, Senior Bioinformatician
2018-2022: University of Toronto, Donnelly Centre, Postdoctoral Fellow
2016-2018: Harvard University - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Postdoctoral Fellow
2008-2016: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Ph.D. in Cell Biology
2006-2008: Bilkent University (Ankara/TURKEY), Master of Science
2002-2006: Hacettepe University (Ankara/TURKEY), BSc. in Biology with Honors
Awards & Fellowships
2020 - Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
2018 - Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Award by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2006 - Master of Science Fellowship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
2006 - Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors Award in the Department of Science at Hacettepe University
2004 - Undergraduate Fellowship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
Publications
Selected Publications:
2022 - Barutcu, AR., Wu M. et al. Systematic mapping of nuclear domain-associated transcripts reveals speckles and lamina as hubs of functionally distinct retained introns. Molecular Cell 82, 1-18 PDF
2019 - Barutcu, AR. et al. Differential contribution of steady‐state RNA and active transcription in chromatin organization. EMBO Reports e48068 PDF
2018 - Barutcu, AR. et al. A TAD boundary is preserved upon deletion of the CTCF-rich Firre locus. Nature Communications 9 (1), 1444 PDF
2016 - Barutcu, AR. et al. SMARCA4 regulates gene expression and higher-order chromatin structure in proliferating mammary epithelial cells. Genome Research 26, 1188–1201 PDF
2015 - Barutcu, AR. et al. Chromatin interaction analysis reveals changes in small chromosome and telomere clustering between epithelial and breast cancer cells. Genome Biology 16 (1), 214 PDF
For the most updated list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar site.
