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Efe Sezgin
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Dr. Efe Sezgin is an Associate Professor at Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), in Izmir, Turkey. Before joining IZTECH he was faculty member at the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. His main research interests are identifying genetic and non-genetic basis of complex phenotypes such as infectious disease and cancer susceptibility, nutrigenomics, and accelerated aging. He received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University focusing on the genetic architecture of interactions among energy driving metabolic pathways. Later, he completed his postdoctoral studies in a Genetic Epidemiology laboratory at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) specializing on designing and conducting studies to discover and map novel genetic variants, identify biological pathways, and elucidate potential genetic and environmental interactions involved in HIV-1 infection, progression to AIDS, therapy response, susceptibility to other opportunistic infections, and cancers among diverse patient cohorts.