Michael Ben-Yosef
Research entomologist
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Ph.D. in Agroecology and Plant Health. 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 Prof. 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.
Carmel Katz
M.Sc. student
Horticulture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(Co-advised with Dr. Yafit Cohen, ARO)
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Carmel is working on the ecoinformatic characterization of Mediterranean fruit fly trappings aiming to isolate the effect of urban habitats on the fly's prevalence in citrus orchards.
Mai Hamburg
M.Sc. student
Agroecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(Co-advised with Prof. Boaz Yuval, HUJI)
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Mai studies mechanisms that mediate interspecific competition between the invasive Peach fruit fly and the Mediterranean fruit fly at the larval stage.
Lab alumni
Ravindran Keppanan (Postdoc)
characterization of the fungal and bacterial microbiome of drosophila larvae developing in grapes.
