Michael Ben-Yosef
Research entomologist
Ph.D. in Agroecology and Plant Health. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Postdoctoral fellow at Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Yam Altman
Laboratory manager
In addition to keeping the lab going and everything running, Yam is working on peach fruit fly monitoring and physiology.
Bareket Goldstein
Post-Doc Fellow
Bareket is examining factors that affect Olive fly symbiosis with bacteria.
Carmel Katz
Ph.D. student
Horticulture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(Co-advised with Dr. Yafit Cohen, ARO)
Carmel is working on ecoinformatic characterization of Mediterranean fruit fly trappings aiming to charecterize the effect of urban habitats on the fly's prevalence in citrus orchards.
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Hagai Har-Shoshanim
M.Sc. student
Agroecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(Co-advised with Prof. Arnon Dag, ARO)
Hagai is working on female host choice in Olive flies and possible associations to fruit characteristics and symbiosis.
Lab alumni
Ravindran Keppanan (Postdoc)
characterization of the fungal and bacterial microbiome of drosophila larvae developing in grapes.
Tial Len Sung
M.Sc. student
Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University.
(Co-advised with Prof. Vered Tzin, BGU)
Tial studied the tri-partied interaction between Drosophila larvae, their associated yeasts and bacteria and the host fruit, in context with the sour rot disease of table grapes.
Mai Hamburg
M.Sc. student
Agroecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(Co-advised with Prof. Boaz Yuval, HUJI)
Mai examined mechanisms that mediate interspecific competition between the invasive Peach fruit fly and the Mediterranean fruit fly at the larval stage.
