PhD Candidate
Pelin Taş develops molecular methods for food safety and traceability, focusing on food adulteration, animal and plant species authentication and the detection of genetic modifications.
During her education, she worked on production, microbiology and wine research in the food industry and at the University of Teramo, Italy. Her master’s research analysed the botanical origin of honey using metabarcoding; her doctoral work focuses on modelling pollen–pollinator relationships.
She has collaborated with the Universities of Neuchâtel and Franche-Comté on Alpine butterfly microbiomes. Her work spans field sampling and bioinformatics and uses qPCR, ddPCR and high-throughput sequencing.
Research interests include airborne eDNA, the effects of marine mucilage on biodiversity, eDNA/eRNA protocol development and multi-omics data. Her master’s thesis is available in the YÖK National Thesis Centre under reference 749495.