Bengisu Subasi

Bengisu Subasi

Doctoral student

Address Königin-Luise-Str. 1-3, 14195 Berlin
Room 217
Telephone +49 (0) 30 838 51567
Email b.subasi (AT) fu-berlin (DOT) de

Curriculum vitae

2020-2025 Doctoral student, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Thesis topic: Damage, immune defence and pathogen virulence evolution: From the wild to the lab (DFG funded)
2015-2017 MSc in Biology, Hacettepe University, Turkey. Thesis: Investigation of geographical and seasonal diapause and relation to insulin-like receptor (InR) polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster
2010-2015 BSc in Biology, BSc (Minor) in Anthropology, Hacettepe University, Turkey

Publications (ORCiD)

Subasi BS*, Finsterbusch AL*, Büge M, Armitage SAO (2025) Two matings lead to more copulatory wounding than a single mating in female Drosophila melanogaster. Proceeding of the Royal Society B. 292:20250523. (Earlier version available on bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.02.20.639254) *Joint first authors.
Franz M, Armitage SAO, McMahon D, Subasi BS, Rafaluk C (2025) Trade-offs in virulence evolution: A Hierarchy-of-Hypotheses approach. Trends in Parasitology. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.006.
Subasi BS, Grabe V, Kaltenpoth M, Rolff J, Armitage SAO (2024) How frequently are insects wounded in the wild? A case study using Drosophila melanogaster. Royal Society Open Science.11:240256. doi: 10.1098/rsos.240256. See here for a news article in Science about our paper.
Khatib L, Subasi BS, Fishman B, Kapun M, Tauber E (2023) Unveiling subtle geographical clines: Phenotypic effects and dynamics of circadian clock gene polymorphisms. Biology. 12:858. doi: 10.3390/biology12060858.