CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS

Horowitz, R. PI, Denholm I. PI and Morin, S. PI (2007). Resistance to insecticides in the TYLCV vector, Bemisia tabaci. In "Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Disease: Management, Molecular Biology and Breeding for Resistance", Czosnek, H. Ed., Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. pp. 305-325.

M.Sc Open Positions

Open M.Sc. position – 'Utilizing RNA interference for developing insect-proof plants'.

If you are interested in combining plant molecular engineering and ecology into one experimental system – we are the place for you!!!

Curriculum Vitae

1988-1991 B.Sc., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine.

1992-1995 M.Sc., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Pathogen-Vector-Interaction, Supervisor: Prof. Hanokh Czosnek.

1995-2000 Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Pathogen-Vector-Interaction, Supervisor: Prof. Hanokh Czosnek.

Teaching Areas:

'Biometry and Experimental Analysis' (M.Sc. and Ph.D.):

Course aims:

Learning the principles and practice of statistics in biological research

Research Interests and Activity

Evolution of polyphagy in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci
Developing insect proof plants
Climate change effects and herbivorous insect population outbreaks

General

The laboratory's research interests are in ecological and evolutionary genetics, as they relate specifically to insect-plant and insect-environment interactions. We combine ecological and genomic tools in order to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying insect adaptation to biotic and a-biotic environmental constrains: synthetic insecticides, plant defensive chemistry and more recently, climate changes.