Instructor
Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics
Biography
BIRCWH Scholar: 2023
Seyma Katrinli, PhD, is an Instructor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics and an investigator within the Grady Trauma Project (GTP). Seyma received her PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Istanbul Technical University. In 2018, she received a mentored research grant from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and started her postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University to investigate the role of the immune system in PTSD.
Seyma studies the role of genetic, epigenetic, and sex-specific mechanisms in the development and severity of stress-related psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. She uses multi-omics approaches to develop a more comprehensive understanding of PTSD and related psychiatric symptomatology. She is the lead analyst of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC)-PTSD Epigenetics Workgroup and develops pipelines for the quality control and analysis of DNA methylation data.
During her BIRCWH award, Seyma will receive new training and support to extend her research on PTSD to borderline personality disorder (BPD), specifically to investigate sex-related factors that may exacerbate BPD symptoms in females, including fluctuations in endogenous and exogenous ovarian hormones. Dr. Alicia Smith is her lead mentor.
Click here to see a complete list of Seyma's published work in MyBibliography.