Nihal earned her B.S. in molecular biology and genetics from Bilkent University, Turkey, in 2005. In the Buratowski Lab, she studied the interactions between histone modifications and transcription termination. After graduating in 2011 she joined Stuart Orkin's lab as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2016 she moved back home and is now an assistant professor at Middle East Technical University.
Tim is from New Jersey and received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. Tim was co-advised by Jarrod Marto at Dana Farber Cancer Institute studied transcription initiation complexes using quantitative mass spectrometry. After graduating he joined the postdoctoral fellows program at Glaxo Smith Kline in Pennsylvania, where he is now an Investigator. Tim's LinkedIn profile.