Dr. Kemal Avican

Biography

Kemal Avican employs a systems biology approach to study bacterial infections at the population single-cell level. He serves as the Director of the µNordic Single Cell Hub (µNiSCH) at Umeå University, where he provides technology support to researchers. His work addresses chronic infections and antibiotic resistance, aiming to uncover new knowledge about bacterial tissue adaptation mechanisms and identify gene products that may serve as potential antimicrobial targets. Avican’s research involves studying diverse bacterial pathogens to gain deeper insights into how they adapt to host environments. He develops novel tools for retrieving bacterial transcriptomes and employs bulk and single-cell transcriptomics to understand gene regulatory networks. His focus includes the identification of survival mechanisms that enable bacteria to withstand treatments. Avican’s lab also works on pushing the boundaries of full bacterial transcriptome acquisition and scrutinizing subpopulations of bacteria that escape treatments.

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