Birthday Date: 16^th Nov. 1978, Urmia, IRAN

Email: alireza(dot)asem(at)gmail(dot)com

Education:

B.Sc.: Animal Biology (Zoology), 1998-2002, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, IRAN

M.Sc.: Animal Biosystematics, 2002-2005, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, IRAN

Thesis:  B.s: Study of effect of various concentrations and type of ions in the mine salt and extacted salt from Urmia Lake on Artemia urmiana hatching percent and nauplii biometry M.Sc.: Systematics of Artemia urmiana (Crustacea: Anostraca) in Urmia Lake: A morphological approach

Honours and Awards:

2009: Senior Scholar of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran

Patents:

2010: Six new concepts and formulas for hatching quality of Artemia cyst (Process for hatching quality and evaluation of brine shrimp Artemia cyst), Iranian Patent Office, Patent No.: IRI,67286, Date of Patent: 02-Nov.-2010

2011: Semi-close tubular Photo-Bio-Reactor for micro-alga production, Iranian Patent Office, Patent No.: IRI,71620, Date of Patent: 25-Sept.-2011

Papers:

1) Asem, A.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Agh, N.; (2007) Biometrical study of Artemia urmiana (Anostraca: Artemiidae) cysts harvested from Lake Urmia (West Azerbaijan, Iran), Turkish Journal of  Zoology, 31: 171-180 (Full Text)

2) Asem, A.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N; (2007) Sexual dimorphism in Artemia urmiana Günther, 1899 (Anostraca: Artemiidae) from the Urmia Lake (West Azerbaijan, Iran), Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 6 (12): 1409-1415 (Full Text)

3) Asem, A.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N; (2008) Morphological differentiation of Artemia urmiana Günther, 1899 (Crustacea: Anostraca) in different geographical stations from the Urmia Lake-Iran, Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 3 (2): 222-228 (Full Text)

4) Asem, A; (2008) Historical record on brine shrimp Artemia more than one thousand years ago from Urmia Lake, Iran, Journal of Biological Research, 9: 113-114 (Full Text)

5) De los Rios, P; Asem, A; (2008) Diameter comparison of frontal knobs in Artemia urmiana Günther, 1899 (Crustacea, Anostraca): Possible similarities with New World populations, Crustaceana, 81(11): 1281-1288 (Full Text)

6) Asem, A; Atashbar, B; Rastegar-Pouyani, N; Agh, N; (2009) Biometric comparison of two parthenogenetic populations of Artemia Leach, 1819 from the Urmia Lake basin, Iran (Anostraca: Artemiidae), Zoology in the Middle East, 47: 117-120 (Full Text)

7) Mohsenpour Azari, A; Asem, A; Motallebi, A; Mohebbi, F; Shiri, S; (2009) Length-weight frequency and sex ratio of Crayfish, Astacus leptodactylus, in Aras Reservoir, West Azerbaijan; Iran, Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal, 18(3): 139-148 (Full Text)

8) Asem, A; Atashbar, B; Rastegar-Pouyani, N; Agh, N; (2010) Morphological and biometric characterisation of rare male and sexual dimorphism in parthenogenetic Artemia  (Crustacea: Anostraca), Zoology in the Middle East, 49: 115-117 (Full Text)

9) Asem, A and Rastegar-Pouyani, N; (2010) Different salinities effect on biometry of nauplii and meta-nauplii of two Artemia (Crustacea; Anostraca) populations from Urmia Lake basin, Int. J. Aqu. Sci, 1 (1): 10-13 (Full Text)

10) Djamali, M; Ponel, P; Delille, T; Thiéry, A;  Asem, A; Andrieu-Ponel, V;   Beaulieu, J; Lahijani, H; Shah-Hosseini, M; Amini A; Stevens, L;  (2010) A 200,000-year record of Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca) remains in Lake Urmia, NW Iran, Int. J. Aqu. Sci, 1 (1): 14-18 (Full Text)

11) Asem, A;  Rastegar-Pouyani, N; De Los Rios, P;  Manaffar, R; Mohebbi, F; (2010) Biometrical comparison of Artemia urmiana Günther, 1899 (Crustacea: Anostraca) cysts between rainy and drought years (1994-2003/4) from Urmia Lake, Iran, International Journal of Biological and Life Sciences, 6 (2): 100-106 (Full Text)

12) Asem, A; Rastegar-Pouyani, N; De los Rios, P;  (2010) The genus Artemia Leach, 1819 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): true and false taxonomical descriptions, Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 38 (3): 501-506 (Full Text)

13) Mohsenpour Azari, A;  Mohebbi, F; Asem, A; (2011) Seasonal changes in phytoplankton community structure in relation to physico-chemical factors in Bukan-dam reservoir (northwest Iran), Turkish Journal of Botany, 35, 77-84 (Full Text)

14) Asem, A; (2011) New concepts for hatching quality and evaluation of brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca) cyst, World aquaculture, 42 (1); 11-13,58 (Full Text)

15) Mohebbi, F; Mohsenpour Azari, A; Heidari, M; A; Asem; (2012) Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa bloom in Aras dam reservoir of Iran: a case study, International Journal of Environmental Research, 6 (1): 309-312 (Full Text)

16) Asem, A; Mohebbi, F;  Ahmadi, R; (2012) Drought in Urmia Lake, the largest natural habitat of brine shrimp Artemia, World aquaculture, 43 (1); 36-38 (Full Text)

Abstracts in Conferences:

1) Alireza Asem and Mansour Aliabadian; The study of effects of various concentrations and type of ions in the mine salt and extracted salt from Urmia Lake on Artemia urmiana hatching percent and nauplii biometry; World Aquaculture, March 1-5, 2004, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

2) Alireza Asem and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani; Biometrical comparison of the cyst and larva of Artemia urmiana in Urmia Lake and Fesendooz region in Miandoab (West Azerbijan, IRAN); World Aquaculture, March 1-5, 2004, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

3) Alireza Asem, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani and Naser Agh; Biometrical variation of Artemia urmiana cysts harvested in north part of The Lake Urmia (I) (IRAN); World Aquaculture Society, Sept. 26-29, 2004, Sydney Convention Center, Sydney, Australia

4) Alireza Asem, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani and Naser Agh; Biometrical variation of Artemia urmiana cysts from Urmia Lake (II) (West Azerbaijan, Iran); 5th International Workshop on Artemia, Sept. 21-25, 2004, Artemia and Aquatic Animals Research Center, Urmia University, Urmia, IRAN

5) Behrooz Atashbar, Alireza Asem, Ramin Manaffar and Naser Agh; Biometry of cysts and nauplii of Artemia urmiana and Artemia partenogenetica from Urmia Lake region; 5th International Workshop on Artemia, Sept. 21-25, 2004, Artemia and Aquatic Animals Research Center, Urmia University, Urmia, IRAN

6) Alireza Asem, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani and Patricio De los Rios; Biometric comparison of the frontal knob in four populations of Artemia urmiana (Anostraca, Artemiidae) from Urmia Lake (I), northwestern Iran; World Aquaculture, May 9-13, 2005, Bali International Convention Center, Nusa Dua, Bali - Indonesia

7) Alireza Asem, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani and Naser Agh; Sexual dimorphism in Artemia urmiana in four different geographical stations from the Urmia Lake, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran; World Aquaculture, May 9-13, 2005, Bali International Convention Center, Nusa Dua, Bali - Indonesia

8) Behrooz Atashbar, Alireza Asem, Naser Agh and Ramin Manaffar; Morphological differentiation between two parthenogenetic of Artemia from Urmia Lake region; World Aquaculture, May 9-13, 2005, Bali International Convention Center, Nusa Dua, Bali - Indonesia

9) Alireza Asem, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani and Naser Agh; Morphological differentiation of Artemia urmiana in four different geographical stations from the Urmia Lake, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran; Sixth international Crustacean Congress, July 18th-22nd 2005, Glasgow, England

10) Alireza Asem, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani and Naser Agh; Suggesting a new method for procurement samples to morphometrical study in the brine shrimp Artemia (Anostraca: Artemiidae); Third International Conference: Animals, Zoos and Conservation; June 8-9, 2006; Poznan , Poland

11) Alireza Asem, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani and Naser Agh; Suggesting sexual dimorphism as a new method for biosystematical study of the brine shrimp Artemia (Anostraca: Artemiidae); Third International Conference: Animals, Zoos and Conservation; June 8-9, 2006; Poznan , Poland  

12) Jafar Vatandoost and Alireza Asem; Geographic variation of Myotis blythii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in four caves from the West Zagros Mountains, Iran: a morphometrical approach; 15^th Annual Conference of South East Asian Zoos Association; 11-13 Sep. 2006; Hochiminh, Vietnam

13) Alireza Asem and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani; Taxonomical revision of brine shrimp Artemia in North America (Artemia gracilis instead of Artemia franciscana); 8^th Asian Fisheries Forum; 20-23^rd Nov. 2007; Kochi, India

14) Alireza Asem and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani; Taxonomical revision of Artemia gracilis (Artemia franciscana) and Artemia monica; 8^th Asian Fisheries Forum; 20-23^rd Nov. 2007; Kochi, India

15)  Alireza  Asem, Amin Eimanifar and Yosefali Asadpour; Using of Artemia to deal with biological studies in great saline habitats; Asian Pacific Aquaculture 2007; Aug 5-8 2007; Hanoi; Vietnam

16) Patricio De los Rios and Alireza Asem; Morphometric and biometric observations in frontal knobs of Artemia populations from Chile and Iran (Crustacea, Anostraca); IV Congress Chilean Limnological Society, 22^nd -25^th October 2007; Santiago,  Chile

17) Alireza Asem , Araz Mahmoodi , Hamed Asem; Comparison Resource of Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca) in the Urmia Lake in rainy (1995) and drought (2003) years, 10th International Conference on Salt Lake Research, May 11-16, 2008, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

18) Baharak Sehatnia, Alireza Asem, Amin Eimanifar; A study of physicochemical characterization of Urmia Lake (A comparative approach), 10th International Conference on Salt Lake Research, May 11-16, 2008, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

19) Alireza Asem, Behrooz Atashbar and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani; The first report of biometrical characterization of a rare male in a parthenogenetic population of the brine shrimp Artemia (from Urmia Lake); World Aquaculture, May 19 -23 2008, Busan, Korea

20) Alireza Asem, Ramin Manaffar and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani; A biometrical comparison of Artemia urmiana (Crustacea: Anostraca) cyst between rainy (1994) and drought (2003-2004) years from the Urmia Lake; World Aquaculture, May 19 -23 2008, Busan, Korea

21) Alireza Asem; Historical Note on Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca); World Aquaculture, May 19 -23 2008, Busan, Korea

22) Alireza Asem; New concepts to Hatching quality and evaluation of brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca) cyst; World Aquaculture, May 19 -23 2008, Busan, Korea

23) Ramin Manaffar, Afag Falahati, Abdolmajid Moshtagiyan, Seyed Morteza Mosavi, Behrooz Atashbar and Alireza Asem; First report for existence of Artemia franciscana coexistence with endemic parthenogenetic Artemia population in inside of the Lake Maharlu, Iran; World Aquaculture, May 19 -23 2008, Busan, Korea

24) Alireza Asem, Araz Mahmoodi, Hamed Asem; Area variation of Urmia Lake, the greatest habitat of Artemia from 1989 to 2003; World Aquaculture, May 19 -23 2008, Busan, Korea

25) Alireza Asem, Yosefali Asadpour, Fereshte Gasemzadeh, Alireza Borhani Dariane; The study of Circulation and Stratification in Urmia Lake; 15th National and 3rd International Conference of Biology, 19-24 Aug 2008, Tehran, Iran

26) Naser Agh, Hasan Sedghi, Alireza Asem; Effect of cold shock (from -80 to -230) on diapause termination, hatching characteristics, growth, survival and sexual Maturity of parthenogenetic Artemia from lagoons neighboring Urmia Lake; 15th National and 3rd International Conference of Biology, 19-24 Aug 2008, Tehran, Iran

27) Hasan Sedghi, Naser Agh, Alireza Asem; Effect of magnetic fields on hatching characteristics, growth, survival and reproductive characteristics of parthenogenetic Artemia from Maharlu Lake; 15th National and 3rd International Conference of Biology, 19-24 Aug 2008, Tehran, Iran

28) Alireza Asem and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani; True and False Taxonomical Decisions on the genus Artemia Leach, 1819 (Anostraca: Artemiidae), 20th International Congress of Zoology, 26-29 August, 2008, Paris, France

29) Alireza Asem and Mansour Aliabadian; The culture of the invasive Artemia franciscana: A serious threat to endemic parthenogenetic Artemia population of Maharlu lake, Iran, 20th International Congress of Zoology, 26-29 August, 2008, Paris, Frence

30) Ali Mohsenpour Azari, Feridoon Mohebbi, Abasali Motaalebi, Reza Ahmadi, Alireza Asem, Saber Shiri, Syavash Ganji; Evaluation of the Aras dam reservoir water quality by phytoplankton indexes, The first national conference on the Caspian Sea fisheries resources, 17-18 Nov. 2008, Gorghan, Iran

31) Ali Mohsenpour Azari,Saeed Chodar Rezai,Yusofali Asadpoor, Alireza Asem, Reza  Ahmadi, Saber Shiri; Aras River zooplankton population changes, The first national conference on the Caspian Sea fisheries resources, 17-18 Nov. 2008, Gorghan, Iran

32) Patricio De los Rios and Alireza Asem; Use of biometrical characters of cyst for intra-specific and inter-specific variation within the genus Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca), II National Aquaculture Congress, 07-09 January 2009, Temuco, Chile

33) Dola Bhattacharjee, Alireza Asem and Amin Eimanifar; Biometric study of mercury exposure on the early larval stages of brine shrimp, Artemia spp. (Crustacea: Anostraca), Aquaculture America 2009, February 15- 18 2009, Washington State, Seattle, Washington, USA

34) Ali Mohsenpour Azari, Alireza Asem, Feridun Mohebi and Saber Shiri; Some Biological Characteristics of Crayfish, Astacus leptodactylus (Decapoda; Astacidae) in Aras Dam (2008), Aquaculture America 2009, February 15- 18 2009, Washington State, Seattle, Washington, USA

35) Ramin Manaffar, Alireza Asem, Amin Eimanifar and Behrooz Atashbar; Fatty acid composition of Artemia urmiana in five separated stations from the Urmia Lake, Aquaculture America 2009, February 15- 18 2009, Washington State, Seattle, Washington, USA

36) Naseh Abdolah zadeh, Samad Zare , Ramin Manaffar and Alireza Asem; The effect of two different salinities on cyst biometry of Artemia urmiana from Urmia Lake regions, Aquaculture America 2009, February 15- 18 2009, Washington State, Seattle, Washington, USA

37) Behrooz Atashbar, Alireza Asem and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani; First report of morphological characterization of rare males and Sexual Dimorphism in parthenogenetic Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca): an evolutionary approach, Aquaculture America 2009, February 15- 18 2009, Washington State, Seattle, Washington, USA

38) Alireza Asem; New concepts for study on survival, growth and reproductive characteristics of brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca), Aquaculture America 2009, February 15- 18 2009, Washington State, Seattle, Washington, USA

39) Ali Mohsenpour Azari, Saeed Chodar Rezai, Alireza Asem, Saber Shiri; Bukan Dam reservoir zooplanktonic population changes, Modern Aquaculture, February 18- 19  2009, Babul, Iran  

40) Ali Mohsenpour Azari, Feridoon Mohebi, Alireza Asem; Evaluation and determination of the Bukan dam reservoir water quality, Modern Aquaculture, 18-19 Feb. 2009, Babul, Iran

41) Patricio De los Ríos and Alireza Asem; Biogeography of Iranian and Chilean Anostraca: a comparative track analysis, Aquaculture 2010, March 1-5 2010, San Diego, California, USA

42) Behrooz Atashbar, Alireza Asem, Naser Agh; Sexual Dimorphism in Streptocephalus torvicornis (Anostraca: Streptocephalidae) from Gom Tapa and Peghic (Iran), Aquaculture 2010, March 1-5 2010, San Diego, California, USA

43) Behrooz Atashbar, Alireza Asem, Naser Agh; Sexual Dimorphism in Phllycriptus spinosa (Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) from Eider and Bafgh (Iran), Aquaculture 2010, March 1 - 5 2010, San Diego, California, USA

44) Alireza Asem, Behrooz Atashbar, Naser Agh; Sexual Dimorphism in Chirocephalus skorikowi (Anostraca: hirocephalidae) from Sahand Highlands (Iran), Aquaculture 2010, March 1-5 2010, San Diego, California, USA

45) Alireza Asem, Behrooz Atashbar, Naser Agh; Sexual Dimorphism in Branchinecta orientalis (Anostraca: Branchinectidae) from Khaslou and Akh Gol (Iran), Aquaculture 2010, March 1-5 2010, San Diego, California, USA

46) Alireza Asem; Use of new concepts of hatching quality for three populations of brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca) cyst, Aquaculture 2010, March 1-5 2010, San Diego, California, USA

47) Feridoon Mohebi,  Ali Mohsenpour Azari, Abasali Motallebi, Alireza Asem;  The phytoplankton population succession in the Aras Dam Reservoir, National Conference of Biodiversity, 8 August 2010, Urmia, Iran

48) Ali Mohsenpour Azari, Alireza Asem, Feridoon Mohebbi, Yosefali Asadpour; Evaluation of environmental Index to Resource of Astacus leptodactylus, in Aras Reservoir, 3rd Iran Shrimp Conference, 5-6 December 2010, Bushehr, Iran

49) Ali Mohsenpour Azari, Feridoon Mohebbi, Alireza Asem, Syavash Ganji; Effect of environmental factors on growth of Astacus leptodactylus, 3rd Iran Shrimp Conference, 5-6 December 2010, Bushehr, Iran

50) Ali Mohsenpour Azari, Alireza Asem, Feridoon Mohebbi, Mir-Yosef Yahyazade; Evaluation of weight groups of Astacus leptodactylus in Aras Reservoir with Rumyanetsev Classification, 3rd Iran Shrimp Conference, 5-6 December 2010, Bushehr, Iran

51) Alireza Asem, Ali Mohsenpour Azari, Fereidun Mohebbi, Mir Yousef Yahyazadeh, Saber Shiri, Mohammad Farrokhi Moghaddam, Siavosh Ganji, Bayramali; Dadashpour; Sexual Length-Weight Dimorphism on Astacus leptodactylus in Aras Reservoir (NW; Iran), Aquaculture America 2012, February 29 - March 2, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

52) Mojtaba Fathi, Alireza Asem, Alireza Amirsadeghi; Effect of different concentrations of Urmia Lake Salt on Growth, Beta-Carotene and Chlorophyll a in halophic Chlorella sp., Aquaculture America 2012, February 29 - March 2, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

53) Alireza Asem, Mojtaba Fathi, Alireza Amirsadeghi; Correlation of the biological characters of halophic Chlorella sp. in different salinity of NaCl, Aquaculture America 2012, February 29 - March 2, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA