Ulaş Tezel

Enstitü müdür yardımcısı
Office: 
HKC-305
e-mail: 
ulas.tezel@bogazici.edu.tr
web: 
http://web0.boun.edu.tr/ulas.tezel/tezel/Welcome.html
http://www.biomig.boun.edu.tr/biomig/BIOMIG.html
Phone: 
+90 212 359 4604
Interest Areas: 

Occurrence and fate of micropollutants in the environment

Biotransformation of organic pollutants

Molecular genetics of bacterial biotransformation

Catabolic transposons and plasmids

Education: 

Ph. D., School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, 2009

M.S., Environmental Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, TR, 2003

B.S., Environmental Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, TR, 2001

Academic Career: 

Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2021 - present

Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2012 - 2020

 

CV: 
PDF icon cv-ulastezel-nov2022.pdf
Recent Projects: 
  1. “Occurrence of Organic Disinfectants and Their Biodegradation Potential in Türkiye’s Rivers During a Year of SARS-CoV2 Pandemic”, Boğaziçi University Research Fund, 2022-2023.
  2. “Sustainable Watershed Management Through IoT-Driven Artificial Intelligence (SWAIN)”, CHIST-ERA, 2021-2024. (https://swain-project.eu )
  3. “Determination of Mobile Genetic Element of QxyA Gene Cluster and Its Ecophylogenetic Analysis”, Boğaziçi University Research Fund, 2020-2021. (http://www.biomig.boun.edu.tr/evobiomig/ )
  4. “Development of a Geographical Information Systems Based Decision-Making Tool for Water Quality Management of Ergene Watershed Using Pollutant Fingerprints” The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2016-2019.
  5. “Development of enzyme bioreactors for the advanced treatment of wastewater containing antimicrobial chemicals” The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2014-2017.
Selected Publications: 
  1. Wilkinson, J. L., Boxall, A., Kolpin, D. W., Leung, K., Lai, R., Galbán-Malagón, C., Adell, A. D., Mondon, J., Metian, M., Marchant, R. A., Bouzas-Monroy, A., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Coors, A., Carriquiriborde, P., Rojo, M., Gordon, C., Cara, M., Moermond, M., Luarte, T., Petrosyan, V., … Teta, C. (2022). Pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(8), e2113947119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113947119
  2. Sefiloglu, F. O., Tezel, U., & Balcıoğlu, I. A. (2021). Validation of an Analytical Workflow for the Analysis of Pesticide and Emerging Organic Contaminant Residues in Paddy Soil and Rice. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 69(11), 3298–3306. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.0c06111
  3. Sakarya, F. K., Haznedaroglu, B. Z., & Tezel, U. (2021). Biological removal of benzalkonium chlorides from wastewater by immobilized cells of Pseudomonas sp. BIOMIG1 in an up-flow packed bed reactor. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 418, 126210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126210
  4. Emadian, S. M., Sefiloglu, F. O., Akmehmet Balcioglu, I., & Tezel, U. (2021). Identification of core micropollutants of Ergene River and their categorization based on spatiotemporal distribution. The Science of the Total Environment, 758, 143656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143656
  5. Akay, C., & Tezel, U. (2020). Biotransformation of Acetaminophen by intact cells and crude enzymes of bacteria: A comparative study and modelling. The Science of the Total Environment, 703, 134990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134990