Lab Members

 

Shai Morin, Associate Professor 
Tel:++972-8-9489365 
Fax:++972-8-9466768 
shai.morin@mail.huji.ac.il

Pnina Moshitzky, technician. 
Effects of Juvenile hormone mimics of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci.  
Publications: 1, 2
Tel:08-9489271 
pnina.moshitzky@mail.huji.ac.il

Osnat Malka, Post doc. student 
Evolution of resistance to plant secondary metabolites in herbivorous insects.
Publications: 1, 2, 3
Tel:08-9489271 
osnat226@gmail.com

Galit Eakteiman, Ph. D. student 
Silencing of detoxification genes in herbivorous insects for developing insect proof plants.
Tel:08-9489271 
Publications: 1
galit.ts@gmail.com

Roni Gafni, MSc. student 
Response of insect pest species to climate change.
Tel:08-9489271 
rogafni@gmail.com

 

Under Graduates 

Gil Zimran, Undergraduate student

Plant and insect rearing; Greenhouse and rearing chambers management; Experimental support.

 

Yotam Perelman, Undergraduate student 
Plant and insect rearing; Greenhouse and rearing chambers management; Experimental support.

Sharon Ben-Hur, Undergraduate student 

Characterizing the gene silencing machinery in Bemisia tabaci (undergraduate research project).

 

Mor Meshulam, Undergraduate student
Plant and insect rearing; Greenhouse and rearing chambers management; Experimental support.

 

 

Former Lab Members

 

Eyal Halon, MSc. 
2009-2013
Eyal's thesis was:" Induction of metabolic genes in Bemisia tabaci  in response to feeding on artificial diet containing plant allelochemicals" 
Publications1
eylhln@gmail.com

Galit Eakteiman, MSc. 
2008-2012 
Galit's thesis was "Production of transgenic plants for suppression of Bemisia tabaci metabolic genes, using  the RNA interference technology".
Publications: 1
galit.ts@gmail.com

Roee Shavit, MSc. 
2009-2012 
Roee's thesis was "Effect of tomato plant - bacteria interactions on Bemisia tabaci"
Publications: 1
Roeeshavit@yahoo.com

Michal Alon, Ph.D. & MSc. 
2004-2012
Michal's MSc. thesis was "Molecular and evolutionary charcterization of resistance mechanism of pyrethroids and organophosphates in Bemisia tabaci"
Michal's PhD. thesis "Characterization of the behavioral and genomic responses of Bemisia tabaci to the over-expression of the phenylpropanoids biosynthetic pathway in Nicotiana tabacum"
Publications: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
alon@agri.huji.ac.il

Moshe Elbaz, Ph. D. student 
2005-2011
Moshe's thesis was "Ecological interaction, population dynamic and "enviromental response genes" in two sympatric biotypes of Bemisia tabaci"
Publications: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 
elbazmoshe7@gmail.com
Oshri Marcovich, MSc. student 
2007-2010  co-supervisor with Prof. Asaph Aharoni 
Oshri's thesis was "Behavioral response of Bemisia tabaci  to variation in glucosinolates level in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Publications: 1
oshrym@yahoo.com
Dinesh Kafle, MSc. student 
2009-2011 co-supevisor  with Prof. Moshe Coll 
Dinesh's thesis was "effects of secondary compounds on host plant preference by the phloem-feeding insect, Bemisia tabaci and the predatory omnivorous insect, Orius laevigatus"
Publications: 1 
dinesh.kafle@yahoo.com
Iris karunker, Ph. D. 
Iris's thesis was "From gene to function, molecular analysis of metabolic and target site resistance to insecticides"
Publications: 1, 2, 3
karunkeri@gmail.com
Tslila Ben-David, Ph. D.
2004-2009 , co-supervisor with Prof. Uri Gerson,
Tslila's thesis was "Molecular and ecological characterization of Israel’s spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae)"
Publications: 1, 2
zlilabd@gmail.com
Fishel Alon, MSc. student 
2004-2006
Fishel's thesis was "Characterization of metabolic genes of the GST family from Bemisia tabaci and examining their involvement in plant-insect interaction"
Publications: 1, 2, 3
  Margaret Wilson, MSc. student 
2004-2006
Margaret's thesis was "biological and genetic characterization of compensating fitness components associated with resistance to pyriproxyfen in Bemisia tabaci, Q biotype"
Publications: 1
  Navit Lahav, MSc. student 
2004-2010 
Navit's thesis was "Evidence for a reproductive barrier between the B and Q biotype of Bemisia tabaci"
Publications: 1
  Einat Laor, MSc. student 
2005-2007
Einat's thesis was "Molecular charcterizaion of resistance to pyriproxyfen in Bemisia tabaci"
Publications: 1