Research Interests: DNA barcoding, phylogeography, marine benthic ecology, and the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems

Education

  • Ph.D. 2006 - 2013, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, TÜRKİYE
  • M.Sc., 2002 - 2006, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, TÜRKİYE
  • B.Sc., 1998 – 2002, Faculty of Fisheries, Istanbul University, TÜRKİYE

Career Highlights

Selected Publications 

  1. KALKAN, E., HEMOND, L. E., KARHAN, U.S., BILGIN, R. (2023). The Intertwined Effects of Hydrographic Barriers, Palaeoclimate and Life History on Genetic Structure of Marine Populations: A Case Study of Two Marine Invertebrates. Mediterranean Marine Science, 24, 1, 56-75.
  2. YÜCEL, M., KALKAN TEZCAN, E, et al. (2023). Deoxygenation and Mucilage Spread in the Sea of Marmara in the Light of New Oceanographic Approaches with the MARMOD Project. Environmental, Urban, and Climate Journal, 2, 3, 82-96.
  3. CETIN 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. https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal.pone.0266506 (*These authors share senior authorship).
  4. DELI, T., KALKAN, E., KARHAN, S. Ü., UZUNOVA, S., KEIKHOSRAVİ, A., BİLGİN, R., SCHUBART, C. D., (2018). Parapatric genetic divergence among deep evolutionary lineages in the Mediterranean green crab, Carcinus aestuarii (Brachyura, Portunoidea, Carcinidae), accounts for a sharp phylogeographic break in the Eastern Mediterranean. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18 (53) :1,  1–21.
  5. KALKAN, E., KURTULUŞ, A., MARACI, Ö., & BILGIN, R. (2011). Is the Bosphorus Strait a barrier to gene flow for the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamark, 1819)? Marine Biology Research, 7: 690-700.