Branch of Marine Biology

Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University(Assiut Branch), Assiut, Egypt

Branch of Marine Biology

Dr. A. Tharwat

Assistant Prof. of Marine Invertebrates

CURRICULAM VITAE

NAME: ABD ALLAH THARWAT ABD ALLAH
ADDRESS: 110 EL-SANADELI STREET, GIZA, EGYPT MAILING
ADDRESS: - DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE,
AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, ASSIUT, EGYPT.

DATE OF BIRTH: 29 JULY, 1963.
PLACE OF BIRTH: GIZA, EGYPT. FAMILY STATUS: MARRIED.

EDUCATION: -

B. SC. OF ZOOLOGY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, CAIRO UNIVERSITY, MAY, 1983. -

M. SC. OF ZOOLOGY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, SEPTEMBER,1990. -

PH. D. OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, NOVEMBER, 1996.

POSITIONS -

DECEMBER,1986- SEBTEMBER, 1990 DEMONSTRATOR, DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY,FACULTY OF SCIENCE, AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, ASSIUT. -

SEBTEMBER, 1990- DECEMBER, 1996 TEACHING ASSISTANT, DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY,ASSIUT. -

JANUARY, 1997- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, ASSIUT.

AWARDS:
CHANNEL-SYSTEM SCHOLARSHIP FOR PH.D. STUDY OPENED
BETWEEN AL- AZHAR UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE AT JULY, 1993.

CONFERENCES ANDSYMPOSIA PARTICIPATION -

Twelfth InternationalMalacological Congress, Vigo, Spain at Aug. 1995 -
International Congress on Molecular Genetics, CICC, Cairo, Egypt at Feb. 1998 -

Tenth International Symposium on Biomonitoring, Karlsruhe, Germany at Sep.
1999.

SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP: -

MEMBER OF EGYPTIAN SOCIETY OF PARASITOLOGY. - MEMBER OF EGYPTIAN-GERMAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGY. - MEMBER OF ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF EGYPT.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1- Abd-Allah, A.T.(1990)Ecological and physiological genetic studies on some Egyptian desert snails. M.Sc. thesis, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. 2- Abd-Allah, A.T.(1996) Ecological and Biologcal studies on the freshwater
snail Biomphalaria glabrata ; the intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni. Ph.D. Thesis, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

3- Abd-Allah, A.T. (1999) Heavy metal accumulation in the freshwater prosobranch Bellamia unicolor. 10th International Symposium on
Biobomonitoring, Karlsruhe, Germany, sept. 1999.

4- Abd-Allah, A.T., Thompson, S.N, Brochardt, D.B. and Wanas, M.Q.A.(1999) Biompahalaria glabrata: A laboratory model illustrating the potential of
pulmonate gastropods as freshwater biomonitors of heavy metal pollutants. Malacologia 41(2):345-353.

5-Abd-Allah, A.T., Bordchart, D.B., Wanas, M.Q.A. and Thompson, S.N. (1998) A Qualitative 31P NMR Investigation on the effect of exposure to lead, cadmium, or mercury on the energrtic status of the Pulmonate Gastropod Biomphalaria glabrata (Say). The Veliger, 41(4):368-372.

6- Abd-Allah, A.T., Wanas, M.Q.A. and Thompson, S.N. (1998) Effect of heavy metal pollution on In Vitro development of Schistosoma mansoni miracidia. Prelimenary observation. International Congress on Molecular Genetics, Cairo, Egypt. Feb.21-25, P. 101-106.

7- Wanas, M.Q.A., Thompson, S.N. and Abd-Allah, A.T. (1998) Effect of
lead, mercury and cadmium on the extramolluscan larval stages of Schistosoma mansoni (Sambon). Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology. 28(2): 583-594.

8- Abd-Allah, A.T., , Mejia-Scales,V., Wanas, M.Q.A. and Thompson, S.N. (1998) Effects of Cadmium, mercury and lead on the biology of the schistosome vector, Biomphalaria glabrata Say (Gastropoda : Pulmonata)
.Journal of Medical and Applied Malacology. In press.
9- Abd-Allah, A.T., Wanas, M.Q.A. and Thompson, S.N. (1997) Effects of heavy metals on survival and growth of Biomphalaria glabrata Say (Gastropoda:Pulmonata) and interaction with schistosome infection. The
Journal of Molluscan Studies. 63: 79-86.

10- Abd-Allah,A.T., Wanas, M.Q.A. and Thompson, S.N. (1996) The effects of lead, Cadmium and Mercury, onthe Mortality and Infectivity of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae Journal of Parasitology. 82(6): 1024-1026
11- Thompson, S.N., Abd-Allah, A.T. and Quasseem, M.Q.A. (1995) Effects of hesvy metals on the growth and reproduction of the schistosome vector Biomphalaria glabrata Say. Twelfth International Malacological Congress, Vigo, Spain.

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Maged M.A. Fouda

Atef

Alaa G. M. Osman

ASSISTANT LECTURER IN BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF FISHES

EDUCATION:

1. 1992: B.Sc. (Zoology) Faculty of Science, Assiut University (very good).

2. 2000: M.Sc. (Fish Biology)Taxonomical and Biological studies on some species of Genus Epeniphlus (Family Serranidae) from the Red Sea, Egypt.. Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

1995 -2000: Demonstrator in Zoology Dept. Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University (Assiut Branch) Assiut.

2000- 2004 : Assistant Lecturer in the Marine Biology Branch, Zoology Dept. Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University (Assiut Branch) Assiut.

2004- : PhD student Leinbniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, German.

Language Skills:

Arabic: Native

English: Fluent

German: Intermediate

Professional society Memberships:

1- Egyptian Society of Fish Recourses and Human Health.

2- Egyptian Society of Electron Microscopy

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

Osman, A.G.M; Mekkawy,I.A.A; Verreth, J.; Wuertz, S.; Kloas, W.; Kirschbaum, F. (2007): Monitoring of DNA breakage in embryonic stages of the African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) after exposure to lead nitrate using alkaline comet assay. Environmental Research (submitted)

Osman, A.G.M; Wuertz, S.; Mekkawy,I.A.A; Kirschbaum, F.(2007) Early development of the African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) focusing on the ontogeny of selected organs. Journal of Applied Ichthiology (submitted)

Osman, A.G.M; Wuertz, S.; Mekkawy,I.A.A; Exner, H.; Kirschbaum, F.(2007) Lead induced malformations in embryos of the African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822). Environmental Toxicology (in press)

Osman, A.G.M; Mekkawy,I.A.A; Verreth, J.; Kirschbaum, F. (2006). Effects of lead nitrate on the activity of metabolic enzymes during early developmental stages of the African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822). Fish Physiology and Biochemistry DOI 10.1007/s10695-006-9111-8.

Mekkawy,I.A.A; Osman, A.G.M. (2006): Ultrastructural studies of the morphological variation of the egg surface and envelopes of the African Catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) before and after fertilization with a discussion of fertilization mechanism. Sientia Marina 70: 23-40.

Mekkawy, I.A.A; Shehata, S.M.A; Saber, S.A. and Osman, A.G.M. (1999): Scale characteristics of five species of genus Epinephelus (Family: Serranidae) from the Red Sea, Egypt. J. Egypt. Ger. Soc. Zool. 30(B): 71-102.

Mekkawy, I.A.A; Saber, S.A.; Shehata, S.M.A and Osman, A.G.M. (2000): Protein taxonomy of four Epinephelus species from the Red Sea, Egypt: I-Muscle and eye-lens nucleus proteins. Bull. Fac. Sci. Assiut Univ., 29(1-E):23-37.

Mekkawy, I.A.A; Saber, S.A.; Shehata, S.M.A and Osman, A.G.M. (2000): Protein taxonomy of four Epinephelus species (Family: Serranidae) from the Red Sea, Egypt: II- Isoenzymes. Bull. Fac. Sci. Assiut Univ., 29(1-E): 37-53.

Mekkawy, I.A.A; Saber, S.A.; Shehata, S.M.A and Osman, A.G.M. (2002): Morphometrics and Meristics of four species of genus Epinephelus (Family Serranidae) from the Red Sea, Egypt. Bull. Fac. Sci. Assiut Univ.,31(1-E): 21-41.

Conference contributions:

Mekkawy,I.A.A; Osman, A.G.M. (2005): Ultrastructural studies of the morphological variation of the egg surface and envelopes of the African Catfish Clarias gariepinus before and after fertilization with a discussion of fertilization mechanism. 29th Annual Larval Fish Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 11-14 Juli 2005.

Osman, A.G.M; Mekkawy,I.A.A; Verreth, J.; Kirschbaum, F. (2006). Metabolic enzymes as biomarkers in embryonic stages of the African catfish after lead exposure. 8^th international poster conference, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM, ORGANISMA, INNOVATIONS-8, October 20, 2006, Muscow State University, Moscow.

Mail to: osman@igb-berlin.de

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