Michael Ben-Yosef
P.I.
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Ph.D. in Agroecology and Plant Health. Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Postdoctoral fellow at Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yam Altman
Laboratory manager
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In addition to keeping the lab going Yam is working on peach fruit fly monitoring and physiology (Jointly with Dr. David Nestel, ARO)
Tial Len Sung
M.Sc. student
Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University.
(Co-advised with Dr. Vered Tzin, BGU)
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Tial is studying 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.
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Hagai Har-Shoshanim
M.Sc. student
Agroecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(Co-advised with Prof. Arnon Dag, ARO)
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Hagai is working on female host choice in olive flies and possible associations to fruit characteristics and symbiosis.
Ravindran Keppanan
Postdoctoral fellow
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Ravindran is characterizing the fungal and bacterial microbiome of drosophila larvae developing in grapes
