Defne Ercelen
Defne is a research associate working on the genetic architecture of autoimmune diseases. She is interested in using large scale data to identify associations between clinical phenotypes and genomic traits. She is also part of the IBD research team at NYU Langone under Dr. Jordan Axelrad. She received a B.S. in computational and systems biology with a concentration in bioinformatics from UCLA, where she completed her thesis work in the diversity of genomic features detectable by exome sequecning in Dr. Noah Zaitlen’s lab. Other than genomics, she completed a minor in art history in UCLA and a certificate program in Art & Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
