Prof. Dr. Mustafa DURAN

Hydrobiology Laboratory

Pamukkale University-Faculty of Arts & Sciences-Department of Biology

Benthos

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Interests

I have 15 years’ experience on water quality by using macroinvertebrate and physicochemical parameters. In addition, these experiences cover biological sampling preservation, transportation and analyses of samples as analysis of surface water, biota and sediment. Also I have 7 years’ experience of Biological monitoring, biotic indices and EQR in line with the EU WFD. I directed more than 10 theses, projects and given 3 classes on training on biological monitoring based on WFD requirements. Recently developed and executed a workshop on training biomonitoring with WWF, Turkey for the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs according to the WFD.

Our primary research interest as the Hydrobiology Lab. lies in furthering our understanding of the living dynamics of the freshwater. More specifically, our research focuses on how environment effects benthic macro invertebrates and their habitats directly or indirectly related to changes in indicator taxons. And also we focus on the molecular phylogeny of the subfamilies of Chironomidae, because molecular systematics is an essentially cladistic approach.

Aquatic Biomonitoring

Aquatic biomonitoring is the science of inferring the ecological condition of rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands by examining the organisms that live there. While aquatic biomonitoring is the most common form of such biomonitoring, any ecosystem can be studied in this manner.

Benthic Macroinvertebrates

Freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates, or more simply “benthos”, are animals without backbones that are larger than ½ millimeter. These animals live on rocks, logs, sediment, debris and aquatic plants during some period in their life.

Molecular Phylogeny

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analysis hereditary molecular differences, mainly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. The result of a molecular phylogenetic analysis is expressed in a phylogenetic tree.

Vitae

Curriculum vitae (Feb 2015).

Prof. Dr.

Mustafa DURAN

Pamukkale University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Department of Biology, Zoology Section.
Education

B.SC.

Department of Biology, Anadolu University (Eskisehir-TURKIYE)

M.Sc.

Department of Biology, Anadolu University (Eskisehir-TURKIYE)

Ph.D.

Department of Population Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia (Norwich-UK)
Other Skills

Full computer literacy including MS Office applications; CANOCO; Minitab and Internet Applications
Years with the firm

OCTOBER 1998-2003

Assistant Professor, Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Zoology, Biological Sciences, University of Gaziosmanpasa.

January 2003 - present

Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Zoology, Biological Sciences, University of Pamukkale.

Occupational

Publications, Projects, Symposium & Congress
Key words: Water ecology, macroinvertebrate ecology and systematics, Chironomidae systematics, ecology and phylogeny

Publications

SCI, Expanded, Abstracts

Projects

International, TUBITAK, BAP...

Symposium & Congress

International, National

Our Benthos Team

Hydrobiology Lab. Staff

Prof. Dr. Mustafa DURAN (Head)

Freshwater Ecology, Monitoring, Training, Benthos

Assist. Prof. Dr. Gurcay K. AKYILDIZ

Palaeolimnology, Monitoring, Chironomids, R

Assist. Prof. Dr. Adile SARI

Molecular Phylogeny, Toxicology, Training

3 PhD, 3 MSc and 1 BSc students are also keep studying in our laboratory.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Mustafa DURAN

Pamukkale University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biology
Kinikli Campus
20070 Denizli
TURKIYE

Publications

Papers & Attendance of international meetings ,

Papers

#	Info
1.	Gürçay Kıvanç Akyıldız, Mustafa Duran “Preliminary Results On Development of a Chironomid-Based Mean July Air Temperature Inference Model For The Turkish Lakes” ”. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Suppl.4, 175-186 2012
2.	Recep BAKIR Gürçay Kıvanç AKYILDIZ, Mustafa DURAN “A New Chironomid Genus from Gerede (Bolu, Turkey); Phaenopsectra Kieffer, 1921 (Diptera, Chironomidae)” J. Entomol. Res. Soc., 14(1): 53-57, 2012
3.	Paraskeva Michailova, Julia Ilkova, Mustafa Duran, Erdal Karadurmus, Ridvan Berber, Alaatin Sen, “Structural and functional alterations in salivary gland chromosomes and enzyme activity of Chironomus riparius Mg. (Diptera, Chironomidae) from anthropogenically polluted sites in Bulgaria and Turkey” Caryologia, 65 (2), 157-169, 2012
4.	Mustafa Duran, Paraskeva Michailova, Adile Sarı, Julia Ilkova, Alaatin Sen, Erdal Karadurmus, “Assessment of the sediment toxicity in Bulgarian and Turkish Rivers using the biomarkers in Chironomus riparius Mg. (Diptera, Chironomidae)”, Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Suppl.4, 167-173 2012
5.	Adile Sari, Mustafa Duran, Fevzi Bardakci, “Discrimination of the Orthocladiinae species (Diptera: Chironomidae) by using cytochrome c oxidase subunit I”. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Suppl.4, 73-80 2012
6.	Ozdemir, A., Duran,M., Sen, A. “Potential Use of the Oligochaete Limnodrilus profundicola V., as a Bioindicator of Contaminant Exposure” Environmental Toxicology. Vol. 26, No.1; 37-44. 2011
7.	Duran,M., Akyıldız, G. K., “Evaluating Benthic Macroinvertebrate Fauna and Water Quality of Suleymanli Lake (Buldan- Denizli) in Turkey”, Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 63 (2), 169-178 2011
8.	Ozdemir, A., Duran,M., Akyildiz, G. K, Sen, A “EROD and Metallothionein in Limnodrilus profundicola (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) as an indicator of pollution exposure inthe Curuksu Stream of Menderes River, Denizli – TURKEY” Desalination and Water Treatment, Vol. 26; 98-103. 2011
9.	P. Michailova, N. Atanasov, J. Ilkova, T. Chassovnikarova, M. Duran, E. Karadurmus. “Genome Response Of Model Invertebrates And Vertebrates Species To Stress Agents In The Environment”. BIOTECHNOL. & BIOTECHNOL. EQ. VOL: 24, NO:SE: 390-396, 2010
10.	Duran, M, , Y. Kara, G. K. Akyildiz and A. Ozdemir, Antimony and heavy metal accumulation in some plants in the Yesilirmak River near the Sb-mining area Tokat, North Turkey. Asian Journal of Chemistry , Vol. 21, No. 3, 1971-1974, 2009
11.	Michailova P., Sen A., Ilkova J., Berber R., Karadurmus E. and Duran M. “Response at different le-vels of the genome of Chironomus riparius Mg. (Diptera, Chironomidae) collected from polluted rivers in Bulgaria and Turkey- preliminary results.” Genetics and Breeding. Vol,38 (1): 29-39, 2009
12.	Duran, M. ve M. Suiçmez, “Utilization of both macroinvertebrates and physicochemical parameters for evaluating water quality of the Stream Çekerek (Tokat, Turkey). Journal of Environmental Science, 28 (2): 231-236, 2007
13.	M. Duran, Y. Kara, G. K. Akyildiz and A. Ozdemir, “Antimony and heavy metals accumulation in some macroinvertebrates in the Yesilirmak River (N Turkey) near the Sb-mining area.” Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 78:395–399 2007
14.	Duran, M. Life cycle of Gammarus pulex (L.) in the River Yeşilırmak. T. J Zoology, 31: 389-395 2007
15.	Duran, M. “Field experiment on drift and colonization of benthic macroinvertebrate in Gokpinar Stream (Denizli, E Turkey)”. Pakistan Journal of Biological Science. 9 (3), 493-496. 2006
16.	Duran, M., M. Suiçmez, M. Kayım ve Ç. Kaynar, “Preliminary analysis of the biological characteristics of alaemon elegans (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) in the Coast of Sinop, BlackSea, N. TURKEY”. Pakistan Journal of Biological Science. 9 (5), 848-853 2006
17.	Duran, M. “Monitoring water quality using benthic macroinvertebrates and physicochemical parameters of the Behzat Stream (Tokat, N TURKEY).” Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 15 (5), 709-717, 2006
18.	Duran, M. “Estimating of growth rate of Gammarus pulex (L.) collected from the River Yeşilırmak (Turkey)” Archiv für Hydrobiologie. 161 (4), 553 – 559. 2004
19.	Duran, M., M. Tüzen, ve M. Kayım, “Exploration of biological richness and water quality of stream Kelkit, Tokat-Turkey”, “ Fresenius Environmental Bulletin” 12 (4), 368-375 2003
20.	Tüzen, M ve M. Duran, “Physicochemical analysis of Tokat region (Turkey) honeys” Advances in Food Science, 24 (3), 125-127, 2002

Attendance of international meetings

#	Info
1.	Mustafa Duran, Paraskeva Michailova, Adile Sarı, Julia Ilkova, Erdal Alaatin Sen, Karadurmus Assessment of the sediment toxicity in Bulgarian and Turkish Rivers using the biomarkers in Chironomus riparius Mg. (Diptera, Chironomidae)”, 50^th years International Conference on Zoology, Hissar, Bulgaria, October 8–10, 2012
2.	Adile Sari, Mustafa Duran, Fevzi Bardakci, Discrimination of the Orthocladiinae species (Diptera: Chironomidae) by using Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, 50^th years International Conference on Zoology, Hissar, Bulgaria, October 8–10, 2012
3.	Akyildiz, G.K., Duran, M. Preliminary Results On Development of a Chironomid Based Summer Surface Water Temperature Inference Model For The Turkish Lakes, 50^th years International Conference on Zoology, Hissar, Bulgaria, October 8–10, 2012
4.	Sari, A., Bakir, R., Duran, M., Bardakci, F. “Discrimination of the Genus Cricotopus (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Turkey by Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit I-Preliminary Results” 18^th International Symposium on Chironomidae, 4-6 July, Trondheim, Norway, 2011
5.	Akyildiz, G.K., Duran, M. “Preliminary Results on Subfossil Chironomid Training Set from Turkey” 18^th International Symposium on Chironomidae, 4-6 July, Trondheim, Norway, 2011
6.	P. Michailova1, J. Ilkova, A. Sen, R. Berber, E. Karadurmus, M. Duran. Effect of environmental pollution on genome and biochemical characteristics of Chironomus riparius Mg. (Chironomidae, Diptera), collected from Bulgarian and Turkish aquatic basins. 5^th Annual International Symposium on Environment, 19-23 Mayıs, Atina, Yunanistan, 2010
7.	OZDEMİR A, DURAN M, AKYILDIZ GK, SEN A, EROD and Metallothionein in Limnodrilus profundicola (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) as an indicator of pollution exposure in the Curuksu Stream of Menderes River, Denizli – TURKEY ule2009 / International Workshop on Urbanisation, Land Use, Land Degradation and Environment Denizli, Turkey, 28^th September – 1^st October 2009
8.	Özdemir, A., , M, Duran, A. Şen. Acetylcholinesterase And Metallothionein In Limnodrilus profundicola (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) As An Indicator Of Pollution Exposure. The 1^st International Workshop on Aquatic Toxicology and Biomonitoring, 27 - 29 August Vodnany, Czech Republic. 2008
9.	ÖZDEMİR A., AKYILDIZ GK, ŞEN A, DURAN M,. Determination of Heavy Metals in Water, Sediment and Chironomus thummi (Diptera, non-biting midges) of the Çuruksu Stream (Denizli)” 6^th AACD2008 09-12 October, Denizli, Turkey. 2008
10.	Özdemir, A., A. Şen, M, Duran, “Effect of Deltamethrin, Methomyl and Methyl-parathion on Cholinesterases activities in Limnodrilus profundicola” 6^th International Congress of Turkish Society of Toxicology (IC-TST), 2-5 November, Antalya, Turkey, 2006
11.	Özdemir, A., A. Şen, M, Duran, “Cholinesterases as potential biomarkers in Tubifex sp.” 31^st FEBS Congress, 24-29 June, İstanbul-Turkey, 2006
12.	Duran M., R. James, “Ecology of the Brown Shrimp Crangon crangon in the Wash” British Ecological Society Winter and Annual General Meeting, University DURHAM, Durham, UK. 1996

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Projects

Specific & Professional Experiences

Specific Experience In the region

Country	Project	Date
TR	Determination of Water Quality of the Meander River (Buyuk Menderes,Denizli) Using Biomarkers. The Scientific and Technological research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)	2008-2010
TR	Determination of benthic fauna, heavy metals and organic pollution using by macroinvertebrate in the Stream Curuksu (Denizli).The Scientific and Technological research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)	2006-2008
TR	Constitute to a primitive biotic indeks using benthic macroinvertebrates in Menderes River in Denizli frontier, Scientific Research Project Unit of Pamukkale University	2006-2007
TR-BL	Assessment of Chemical Pollution in Some Turkish and Bulgarian Rivers by Genome and Biochemical Studies of Chironomidae (Diptera). Bilateral project TUBITAK (Turkish Academic Science) and BAS (Bulgarian Academic Science).	2008-2011

Professional Experience

Date	Location	Position	Description
2014-Cont.	Samsun, Sivas, Erzincan TURKEY	Researcher	Water Quality Monitoring of Kızılırmak, Küçük Menderes, Antalya, Marmara and Konya Basins Under The Scope Of Water Frame Work Directive Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry, General Directorate of Water Management Sampling Ecological Quality ratio Biological monitoring Water quality Training
2012-Cont.	Meriç-Ergene, Susurluk, Marmara Basins TURKEY	Researcher	Determination of sensitive areas and objective of water quality of basins in TurkeyTUBİTAK MAM ÇTÜE Sampling Ecological Quality ratio Biological monitoring Biotic indices Water quality Training
2011-2013	Uşak, Denizli, Aydın, TURKEY	Superviser of the project	Living Rivers and living Aegean, Atlas of the Buyuk Menderes river basin Sampling Ecological Quality ratio Biological monitoring Biotic indices Water quality Training
2011-2013	Middle, north, south and west of Anatolia, TURKEY	Researcher	Determination of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies by Determining the Role and Factors Affecting the Development of Submerged Macrophytes in the Past, Present and Future Warmer Conditions in Shallow Lakes in the Mediterranean Climatic Region Palaeoecology Monitoring water quality Snapshot samples methods sampling using space-for-time substitution approach
2011-2012	Whole Anatolia, TURKEY	Project Coordinator	Molecular Sistematic and Phylogeny of the Chironomidae (Diptera) Family Distributed in the Some Lakes of Turkey Systematics of Chironomidae Molecular Systematic
2009-2011	Amasya, Çorum, TURKEY - Sofia, Plovdiv, BULGARIA	Researcher	Assessment of Chemical Pollution in Some Turkish and Bulgarian Rivers by Genome and Biochemical Studies of Chironomidae (Diptera) Chemical analysis of sediment and water Genetic and somatic aberrations Chironomidae family enzymes activities Training Sampling
2008-2008	Denizli, TURKEY	Project Coordinator	Determination of water quality using biomarkers Buyuk Menderes (Denizli) Biological monitoring Water quality Enzyme activities Training
2006-2008	Denizli, TURKEY	Project Coordinator	Determination of benthic fauna, heavy metals and organic pollution using by macroinvertebrate in the Stream Curuksu (Denizli). Water quality Biological monitoring PAH Pesticide Macroinvertebrate systematics Biota
2006-2007	Denizli, TURKEY	Project Coordinator	Constitute to a primitive biotic indeks using benthic macroinvertebrates in Menderes River in Denizli frontier. Ecological Quality ratio Biological monitoring Water quality Macroinvertebrate systematics Determination fauna (biota)
2005-2006	Denizli, TURKEY	Project Coordinator	Determination of exspression levels of cytochrome P450 isoforms in Gammarus sp., Asellus sp. ve Chironomus sp. Macroinvertebrate systematics Water quality Biological monitoring PAH Pesticide
2001-2002	Tokat, TURKEY	Project Coordinator	The Effects of Different Density Rates on Growth of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Reared in Almus Dam (Tokat). Scientific Research Project Unit of Gaziosmanpasa University Rainbow trouth growth rate Fish farming Mesh net fishing
2009-2013	Whole Anatolia, TURKEY	Project Coordinator	Development Of Transfer Function Modeling On The Chironomid-Temperature Relationship In Some Turkish Lakes. Scientific Research Project Unit of Pamukkale University Palaeoecology Monitoring water quality Transfer function
2012-2014	Uşak, Denizli, Aydın, TURKEY	Project Coordinator	The Ecological Requirements of Chironomids (Büyük Menderes River Sampling). Scientific Research Project Unit of Pamukkale University Biota Ecology of Chironomidae family Water quality Biological monitoring Sediment type

Symposium & Congress

#	Info
1.	Mustafa Duran, Paraskeva Michailova, Adile Sarı, Julia Ilkova, Erdal Alaatin Sen, Karadurmus Assessment of the sediment toxicity in Bulgarian and Turkish Rivers using the biomarkers in Chironomus riparius Mg. (Diptera, Chironomidae)”, 50^th years International Conference on Zoology, Hissar, Bulgaria, October 8–10, 2012
2.	Adile Sari, Mustafa Duran, Fevzi Bardakci, Discrimination of the Orthocladiinae species (Diptera: Chironomidae) by using Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, 50^th years International Conference on Zoology, Hissar, Bulgaria, October 8–10, 2012
3.	Akyildiz, G.K., Duran, M. Preliminary Results On Development of a Chironomid Based Summer Surface Water Temperature Inference Model For The Turkish Lakes, 50^th years International Conference on Zoology, Hissar, Bulgaria, October 8–10, 2012
4.	Sari, A., Bakir, R., Duran, M., Bardakci, F. “Discrimination of the Genus Cricotopus (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Turkey by Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit I-Preliminary Results” 18^th International Symposium on Chironomidae, 4-6 July, Trondheim, Norway, 2011
5.	Akyildiz, G.K., Duran, M. “Preliminary Results on Subfossil Chironomid Training Set from Turkey” 18^th International Symposium on Chironomidae, 4-6 July, Trondheim, Norway, 2011
6.	P. Michailova1, J. Ilkova, A. Sen, R. Berber, E. Karadurmus, M. Duran. Effect of environmental pollution on genome and biochemical characteristics of Chironomus riparius Mg. (Chironomidae, Diptera), collected from Bulgarian and Turkish aquatic basins. 5^th Annual International Symposium on Environment, 19-23 Mayıs, Atina, Yunanistan, 2010
7.	OZDEMİR A, DURAN M, AKYILDIZ GK, SEN A, EROD and Metallothionein in Limnodrilus profundicola (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) as an indicator of pollution exposure in the Curuksu Stream of Menderes River, Denizli – TURKEY ule2009 / International Workshop on Urbanisation, Land Use, Land Degradation and Environment Denizli, Turkey, 28^th September – 1^st October 2009
8.	Özdemir, A., , M, Duran, A. Şen. Acetylcholinesterase And Metallothionein In Limnodrilus profundicola (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) As An Indicator Of Pollution Exposure. The 1^st International Workshop on Aquatic Toxicology and Biomonitoring, 27 - 29 August Vodnany, Czech Republic. 2008
9.	ÖZDEMİR A., AKYILDIZ GK, ŞEN A, DURAN M,. Determination of Heavy Metals in Water, Sediment and Chironomus thummi (Diptera, non-biting midges) of the Çuruksu Stream (Denizli)” 6^th AACD2008 09-12 October, Denizli, Turkey. 2008
10.	Özdemir, A., A. Şen, M, Duran, “Effect of Deltamethrin, Methomyl and Methyl-parathion on Cholinesterases activities in Limnodrilus profundicola” 6^th International Congress of Turkish Society of Toxicology (IC-TST), 2-5 November, Antalya, Turkey, 2006
11.	Özdemir, A., A. Şen, M, Duran, “Cholinesterases as potential biomarkers in Tubifex sp.” 31^st FEBS Congress, 24-29 June, İstanbul-Turkey, 2006
12.	Duran M., R. James, “Ecology of the Brown Shrimp Crangon crangon in the Wash” British Ecological Society Winter and Annual General Meeting, University DURHAM, Durham, UK. 1996

Interests

Aquatic Biomonitoring

Benthic Macroinvertebrates

Molecular Phylogeny

Vitae

Curriculum vitae (Feb 2015).

Prof. Dr.

Mustafa DURAN

Education

B.SC.

M.Sc.

Ph.D.

Other Skills

Years with the firm

OCTOBER 1998-2003

January 2003 - present

Occupational

Publications, Projects, Symposium & CongressKey words: Water ecology, macroinvertebrate ecology and systematics, Chironomidae systematics, ecology and phylogeny

Publications

Projects

Symposium & Congress

Our Benthos Team

Hydrobiology Lab. Staff

Prof. Dr. Mustafa DURAN (Head)

Assist. Prof. Dr. Gurcay K. AKYILDIZ

Assist. Prof. Dr. Adile SARI

Contact

Publications, Projects, Symposium & Congress
Key words: Water ecology, macroinvertebrate ecology and systematics, Chironomidae systematics, ecology and phylogeny