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| Entomology and the Nematology and Chemistry units |
| Head: David Nestel, Ph.D. |
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| The Department of Entomology, Nematology and Chemistry conducts applied and basic research on issues and problems related to agriculture and forestry. Its main objective is to solve problems of plant protection that affect the agricultural and forestry sectors of Israel, for the benefit of both producers and consumers. The Department’s research also aims to improve the rural and urban environment by developing, testing and applying novel pest management strategies that reduce the use of pesticides. The members of the department conduct cutting-edge research on the ecology and biological control of insect pests and nematodes, including their chemical ecology, physiology, and biochemistry, using modern techniques of molecular biology and genomics. The department maintains numerous collaborations with scientists and institutions throughout the world. |
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Research interests include: Integrated pest management and arthropod ecology. Environment-friendly control measures. Chemical control, insecticide biochemistry and toxicology. Insect and nematode physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Taxonomy and fauna surveys.
Aspects of these studies include: 
population dynamics of arthropod pests in deciduous fruit trees and citrus orchards, olive orchards, cut flower beds and field crops; using the composition of insect communities to reveal migratory movement rates, as an indicator of environmental perturbation, for conservation purposes; - use of geostatistical tools and geographic information systems to study spatial dependence of citrus, olive and forest insects;
- development of phenological models;
- study of dispersion patterns in scale insects in order to define optimal sampling units;
- utilization of molecular and statistical techniques to analyze the geographic origin of insect pests and to study population genetics;
- study of the chemical ecology and nutrition of fruit flies and other insects.
Staff members located at the regional centers: - Mansour Fadel, Ph.D., Newe Ya'ar
- Palevsky Eric, Ph.D., Newe Ya'ar
- Zchori-Fein Einat, Ph.D., Newe Ya'ar
- Horowitz Rami A., Ph.D., Gilat
- Oka Yuji, Ph.D., Gilat
- Weintraub Phyllis, Ph.D., Gilat
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| Altstein Miriam, Ph.D. | |
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| Ben-Yakir David, Ph.D. | |
The fate of antibodies ingested by arthropod pests and the… |
| Chejanovsky Nor, Prof. | |
The insect antiviral response: innate immunity, RNAi,… |
| Ghanim Murad, Ph.D. | |
* Biology & Genetics of Insect Resistance to Insecticides.… |
| Gindin Galina, Ph.D. | |
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| Glazer Itamar, Prof. | |
Biological Control of Insect Pests by Microbial control… |
| Harari Ally R., Ph.D. | |
Ecology of mating systems and sexual conflicts
Sexual… |
| Horowitz Rami A., Ph.D. | |
Insecticide resistance and management
Cotton pests… |
| Mendel Zvi, Ph.D. | |
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| Nestel David, Ph.D. | |
Spatial Dispersion Patterns of Fruit Flies; Nutritional… |
| Oka Yuji, Ph.D. | |
Control of plant-parasitic nematodes by organic and… |
| Soroker Victoria, Ph.D. | |
a. Chemical Ecology:
1) Regulation of pheromone… |
| Spiegel Yitzhak, Prof. | |
--- Control of plant-parasitic nematodes by intervention… |
| Zada Anat, Ph.D. | |
Pheromone chemistry Identification, synthesis and… |
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| Anshelevich Leonid, Ph.D. | |
Sex pheromones for monitoring and control of insect pests… |
| Bar-Eyal Meira | |
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| Ben-Aziz Orna | |
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| Bornshtein Alisa | |
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| Chen Michael | |
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| Davidovitz Michael | |
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| Dragushich Daniela, B.Sc. | |
Pheromone chemistry Identification, synthesis and… |
| Eliyahu Miriam | |
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| Gitgarts Liat, B.Sc. | |
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| Gordon Dvora | |
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| Harel Miriam | |
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| Kontsedalov Svetlana | |
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| Kuznetsova Tatiana | |
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| Lavi Ester | |
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| Levadov Galina | |
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| Levski Shlomit | |
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| Mazor Michal, Ph.D. | |
Fruit flies, attractants and repellents, baits, behavior and… |
| Mor Mishael | |
Plant-parasitic nematodes. |
| Protasov Alex, Ph.D. | |
Forest pests;
Gall wasps;
Citrus scale… |
| Reneh Saadia | |
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| Rivkin Hadasa | |
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| Sade Adi | |
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| Salame Liora | |
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| Sharon Edna, Ph.D. | |
Biological control of plant-parasitic… |
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| Kamchi Arial | |
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| Aharonson, Nadav, Ph.D. | |
Development of analytical methods for pesticide… |
| Ben-Dov, Yair, Ph.D. | |
Scale Insects: systematics, biology, ecology and control… |
| Berlinger Menachem J., Ph.D. | |
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| Blumberg Daniel, Ph.D. | |
Date palm and citrus pests
Ecology and control of scale… |
| Chyzik Raisa, Ph.D. | |
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| Dunkelblum Ezra, Ph.D. | |
Chemical communication
Sex pheromone identification and… |
| Halperin Josef, Ph.D. | |
Forest Insect Pests |
| Ishaaya Isaac, Ph.D. | |
Novel Insecticides
Insecticides: resistance, biochemistry… |
| Klein Meir, Ph.D. | |
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| Melamed-Madjar Venezia, Ph.D. | |
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| Muszkat Lea, Ph.D. | |
Remediation of organic pollution in water and effluents by … |
| Navon Amos, Ph.D. | |
Microbial control of agricultural pests with Bacillus… |
| Orion Daniel, Ph.D. | |
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| Virov Dan, Ph.D. | |
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| Wysoki Manes, Ph.D. | |
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