Partner No 1: COORDINATOR-Cukurova University (CUNI)
Prof. Fatih Ozogul, male, is a Professor at the Department of Seafood Processing and Technology and leader of the research group. His current research interest include seafood microbiology and technology, which are food borne pathogen, packaging, preservation techniques, biogenic amines, fatty acids and marine toxins. He has experience in determination of compounds such as biogenic amine, fatty acids, toxin and organic acids in food products by using HPLC, GC and GC-MS instruments. He has published over 100 research articles in peer reviewed (SCI) journal, 10 invited reviews and 8 book chapters (papers have been cited more than 2000 times, with an H-index of 29). He has a role an associate editor in Food Bioscience and Frontiers in Microbiology (Food section) journals.
Prof. Gulsun Ozyurt, female, is a food scientist with over 20 years’ of experience working with seafood processing technology and over 40 SCI papers. Her research activities have been focused on nutritional quality, lipid oxidation, protein denaturation, conventional and smart packaging, microencapsulation of fish oil, valorisation of seafood by products.
Prof. Yesim Ozogul, female, is a Professor at the Department of Seafood Processing and Technology. Her research interests includes seafood quality and control, application of additives in seafood products, safety issues, nano-technological application on seafood and also the effects of nano- emulsions containing essential oils on food borne pathogens and spoilage microorganisms. She has published over 90 research articles, 4 invited reviews, 6 chapters for books, and edited a book called ‘Innovative Technologies in Seafood Processing’ for CRC press.
Dr. Ali Riza Kosker, male, is a scientist at the Faculty of Fisheries. His research activities have been focused on seafood bio toxins, toxic marine species, seafood control, quality, safety and risk assessments. He has published over 30 research articles in peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Hatice Yazgan, female, is an assistant professor and head of the Department of Food Hygiene and Technology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Her research interest includes food quality and safety, food microbiology and food hygiene, nano-emulsion application in seafood and effects of nano-emulsion application on food spoilage bacteria and food borne pathogen.
Dr. Esmeray Boga, female, is an associate professor at the Department of Seafood Processing. Her research area is related to protective cultures and its use in seafood, detection of lactic acid bacteria and metabolites, elimination of fish spoilage and pathogenic bacteria, antimicrobial activity analysis, food hygiene, microbiological quality analysis of food. She had more than 60 research articles and 3 chapters for books in these areas.
Dr. Mustafa Durmuş,
Dr. Ali Serhat Ozkutuk,
Partner No 2: Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA (UNIBO)
Prof. Fausto Gardini, male, is full Professor of Microbiology of the Department of Agricultural and Food Science of University of Bologna (Italy) and leader of the research group. His principal fields of interest are focused on fermented food characterisation, evaluation of the effects of fermentation processes on quality and safety of animal fermented foods, antimicrobial activity of natural compounds, use of predictive microbiology to evaluate the microbial growth in in vitro or real systems. He is co-author of over 150 scientific papers published on international journals, national articles and chapters on national and international books and he coordinated or were responsible for research units of several national or international projects. Maria Fiorenza Caboni, female, is full Professor of Food Science and Technology of the Department of Agricultural and Food Science of University of Bologna (Italy). Her research activities include quality of fatty foods, oxidation and antioxidation, characteristics and performance of antioxidants, both in food of animal origin and in vegetables and dried fruits. She is involved in national and international research projects and collaborates with several European institutes.
