๐ PhD Student in Plant Evolution & Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (Hancock Lab) / University of Cologne
๐งฌ Researching pangenomes, structural variation, and adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana & Arabis alpina
๐ป Passionate about computational biology, population level pangenomics, and genome assembly pipelines
- Comparative pangenome analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabis alpina from East Africa
- Investigating structural variations and their role in adaptation
- Developing bioinformatics tools for CNV/SV detection and pangenome integration
- Nextflow pipeline optimization and containerization for genomics and transciptomics
- Machine learning approaches for pangenomics
- Advanced data analysis, visualization and pipeline development for genomics
- โ๏ธ Email: ykaya@mpipz.mpg.de | yyasinkkaya@gmail.com
- ๐ Bluesky
- ๐ผ LinkedIn
- ๐งฌ Hancock Lab Website
Programming:
โข๐ง Linux โขPython โขR โข C++ โข Bash
Tools/Projects:
- ๐ PanHOG โ A phylogeny-aware toolkit for classifying and annotating Hierarchical Orthologous Groups (HOGs) in pangenomic datasets
- ๐ Revelio โ A lightweight C++ tool to identify cytosine contexts (CG/CHG/CHH) and assign sequence-based probabilities for methylation calling
- ๐ AraFusion โ A pipeline for building and improving hybrid T2T genome assembly


