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Baris Tursun, PhD (he/him/his)

University of Hamburg, Germany

Baris Tursun has been a full Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Hamburg (Germany) since 2021. He uses the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a genetic model organism to study direct cellular reprogramming.
After his PhD research in mouse neurogenesis, Prof. Tursun started working with C. elegans in Oliver Hobert’s group at Columbia University (NY, USA) as a Postdoc from 2006 - 2012.
As a research group leader at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (Germany), he continued establishing C. elegans as a powerful in vivo reprogramming model. Using reverse genetics, his group identified several factors, such as chromatin and metabolism regulators, as direct reprogramming barriers that are conserved and have analogous functions in human cells.

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