Raşit Bilgin

Head of Environmental Sciences Division
Office: 
HKC-205
e-mail: 
rasit.bilgin@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone: 
+90 212 359 6409
Interest Areas: 

Molecular ecology,

Evolutionary biology,

Conservation genetics,

Environmental DNA

Education: 

Ph. D., Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, USA, 2006

M. Phil., Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, USA,  2003

M.A., Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, USA, 2002

M.S., Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, TR, 2000

B.S., Civil Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, TR, 1998

Academic Career: 

Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 2012- Present

Assistant Professor,  Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 2008-2012

Instructor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 2007-2008

CV: 
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Recent Projects: 
  1. “The Conservation of Yelkouvan Sheerwater in the Medierranean and Black Sea Basins Using New Generation Genomics, and Acoustic and GPS-GSM Monitoring Methods” TÜBİTAK 1001 –2021-2024.
  2. “Multi-omic bases of coral disease resistance” TÜBİTAK 2501 –2020-2023.
  3. “An Investigation of the intertidal amphipod crustaceans of the Southern Shetland Islands and islands on the west coasts of the Antarctic Peninsula, using the DNA Barcoding approach” Boğaziçi University Research Fund – 2020-2022.
Selected Publications: 
  1. Çetin, C., Furman, A., Kalkan, E., & Bilgin, R. (2022). Mitonuclear genetic patterns of divergence in the marbled crab, Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Fabricius, 1787) along the Turkish seas. PloS one, 17(4), e0266506.
  2. Bilgin, R., Gürün, K., Rebelo, H., Puechmaille, S. J., Maracı, Ö., Presetnik, P., ... & Juste, J. (2016). Circum-Mediterranean phylogeography of a bat coupled with past environmental niche modeling: A new paradigm for the recolonization of Europe?. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 99, 323-336.
  3. Şekercioğlu, Ç. H., Anderson, S., Akçay, E., Bilgin, R., Can, Ö. E., Semiz, G., ... & Dalfes, H. N. (2011). Turkey’s globally important biodiversity in crisis. Biological Conservation, 144(12), 2752-2769.
  4. Bilgin, R. (2011). Back to the suture: the distribution of intraspecific genetic diversity in and around Anatolia. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 12(6), 4080-4103.
  5. Bilgin, R. (2007). Kgtests: a simple Excel Macro program to detect signatures of population expansion using microsatellites. Molecular Ecology Notes, 7(3), 416-417.