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Hire Bengul G.

Canada

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Molecular Biologist with a deep experience on translational research on CRISPR technologies. Experienced on R.

Profile Summary

Postdoc working on developping pre-clinical models and performing CRISPR screens to find durggable targets in rare gynecologic cancers. Highly skilled at desgining and executing experiments, troubleshooting and risk analysis. Participates in peer-review at certain journals.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Gene Editing/CRISPR
• ★ Cancer Biology
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Epigenetics
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Molecular Cloning
• ☆ Biomolecular Engineering
• ☆ R
• ☆ Ovarian Cancer
• ☆ Men's Health
• ☆ Prostate Cancer
• ☆ Oncology
• ☆ Cancer Research

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing, Translation

Research Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Analysis, Data Visualization

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of British Columbia

September 2022 - Present

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of British Columbia

April 2022 - June 2022

Education

PhD Candidate (Molecular Biology)

Koç Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri ve Mühendislik Enstitüsü

September 2015 - February 2022

Visiting PhD Student

Vancouver Prostate Centre

November 2017 - December 2020

Certifications

• Fundamentals of project management

  Univeristy of British Columbia

  March 2026 - Present

• PhD Certificate

  Koc University

  February 2022 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Bengul Gokbayrak, Jessica D. St. Laurent, Grace D. Xu, Alexander W. Ying, Ajinkya Patil, Joao A. Paulo, Kasey S. Cervantes, Shary Chen, William W. Feng, Akshay Sankar, et al. (2025). Shifted assembly and function of mSWI/SNF family subcomplexes underlie targetable dependencies in dedifferentiated endometrial carcinomas . Nature Genetics.

Bengul Gokbayrak, Eunice S. Li, Rebecca Ho, Ran Tao, Yannes Wai Yan Choi, Chae Young Shin, Shary Y. Chen, Janine Senz, Betty Yao, Liam Johnston, et al. (2025). Molecular subtyping of endometrial carcinoma cell lines uncovers subtype-specific targetable vulnerabilities . npj Precision Oncology.

Bengul Gokbayrak, Chae Young Shin, Valerie L Tao, Noorah Almadani, Eunice S Li, Rebecca Ho, Felix KF Kommoss, Jutta Huvila, Derek Chiu, Samuel Leung, et al. (2025). Prognostic values of molecular subtypes and SWI/SNF protein expression in de‐differentiated/undifferentiated endometrial carcinoma . Histopathology.

Bengul Gokbayrak, Umut Berkay Altintas, Shreyas Lingadahalli, Tunc Morova, Chia-Chi Flora Huang, Betul Ersoy Fazlioglu, Ivan Pak Lok Yu, Batuhan M. Kalkan, Paloma Cejas, Sonia H. Y. Kung, et al. (2025). Identification of selective SWI/SNF dependencies in enzalutamide-resistant prostate cancer . Communications Biology.

Bengul Gokbayrak, Ozlem Yedier-Bayram, Alisan Kayabolen, Ali Cenk Aksu, Ayse Derya Cavga, Ahmet Cingöz, Ezgi Yagmur Kala, Goktug Karabiyik, Rauf Günsay, Beril Esin, et al. (2022). EPIKOL, a chromatin-focused CRISPR/Cas9-based screening platform, to identify cancer-specific epigenetic vulnerabilities . Cell Death & Disease.

Bengul Gokbayrak, Chia-Chi Flora Huang, Shreyas Lingadahalli, Tunc Morova, Dogancan Ozturan, Eugene Hu, Ivan Pak Lok Yu, Simon Linder, Marlous Hoogstraat, Suzan Stelloo, et al. (2021). Functional mapping of androgen receptor enhancer activity . Genome Biology.

PREPRINT

Bengul Gokbayrak, Jessica D. St. Laurent, Grace D. Xu, Alexander W. Ying, Ajinkya Patil, Joao A. Paulo, Kasey S. Cervantes, Shary Chen, William W. Feng, Akshay Sankar, et al. (2025). Shifted assembly and function of mSWI/SNF family subcomplexes underlie targetable dependencies in dedifferentiated endometrial carcinomas .

CONFERENCE POSTER

Bengul Gokbayrak, Rebecca Ho, Eunice Li, Shary Chen, Emma Guo, Chae Young Shin, David Huntsman, Nathan Lack, Yemin Wang (2025). Abstract 443: Targeting therapeutic vulnerabilities mediated by epigenetic reprogramming in ARID1A and ARID1B dual-deficient gynecologic cancers . Cancer Research.

Bengul Gokbayrak, Jessica Diane St. Laurent, Grace Xu, Alexander Ying, Ajinkya Patil, Akshay Sankar, Chae Young Shin, Daniel Same Guerra, David Kolin, David Huntsman, et al. (2024). Abstract 1243: Shifted mSWI/SNF complex assembly and function underlie therapeutically targetable dependencies in endometrial carcinoma . Cancer Research.