Defne Surujon

Art

In my free time, I enjoy drawing, painting, collage and calligraphy. Recently I have decided to dedicate more time to curating my work and sharing it with others. My medium of choice for paintings is acrylics, since it's a forgiving and fast-drying medium. Though most of my paintings have elements of ink, watercolors, oil pastels and scraps.

Prints and Stickers for Sale

I have recently begun curating collections of my work with thematic links. I will be updating and adding new collections on a regular basis.

Collections

Science

I’m a computational biologist with a PhD in Biology from Boston College, where I focused on developing diagnostic and predictive tools for infectious disease using microbial genomics and machine learning.

Currently, I work as a Senior Research Scientist at Day Zero Diagnostics—recently acquired by bioMérieux—where I led the development of species identification pipelines and contributed directly to the technical due diligence supporting the acquisition. My work integrates large-scale sequencing, data science, and microbial systems biology to improve infectious disease detection and accelerate diagnostics.

I collaborate across R&D, regulatory, and engineering teams, and I advocate for open science through my contributions to reproducible, interpretable workflows. You can find my code and ongoing projects at github.com/dsurujon.

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About

I am a Boston-based scientist and artist. Historically I had focused on the science stuff a lot more than the art stuff. I am trying to change that.

Contact

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