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My research work concerned with the biological control of insects and systematic of Hymenoptera. I was member of Governing Board of the Entomological Society of Iran and currently as the society chair. I was Editor-in Chief of Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics and Director-in-Charge of Journal of Crop Protection and Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology (JAST) . I was Dean of the College of Agriculture (TMU) from August 2014 to December 2018
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Javad Karimi is a professor of insect pathology at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) (2008- now) who graduated from the University of Tehran (2007). His academic teaching and research interest focuses on insect pathogens as biocontrol agents with special reference to entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) (including their symbiotic bacteria) and insect parasitic nematodes. He has an international approach to research and most of his works result from shared projects with scientists from the USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, China, South Africa, and other countries. He edited a book for biological control of insects and mites in Iran which was published by Springer. He is the author of more than 70 papers and has presented at some international congresses like SIP, IOBC, ESA, and ESN as well as IPPC. During his career, he has supervised seven Ph.D. students and 30 MSc students, and three postdoc researchers.
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CV https://entomology.rutgers.edu/personnel/randy-gaugler.html
Randy Gaugler had a presentation in the 100th. anniversary of first entomopathogenic nematode introduce, during 10th April, 2024 until Friday 12th of April, 2024 (Logornio, Spain organized by Raquel Campos-Herrera. The link for this as he named it as his last scientific lecture is here:
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Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WkVStpkAAAAJ
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Antonio Biondi is Full Professor in General and Applied Entomology and Coordinator of the PhD Course in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science. He got a MS in Agriculture Science and Technology in 2009 and a PhD in Crop protection at the University of Catania in 2012. He worked, as visiting or as post doc at the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA) (Moncada, Spain), the Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA) (Sophia-Antipolis, France), the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, MN, USA) and the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He was Assistant (2015-2021) and Associate Professor (2021-2023) at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the University of Catania. There he teaches classes in Applied Entomology and Integrated Pest Management to undergraduate and master students.
Dr. Biondi gave several invited talks at numerous national and international congresses, and he took part to several national and international research projects on various topics related to the sustainable control of insect pests in agro-ecosystems. Most of the scientific results have been published in peer-reviewed journals (h-index: 40) and he got awarded by the yearly title of Highly cited researcher since 2019. He serves as editor for various international journals, as well as peer reviewer of scientific manuscripts and research project proposals. He currently serves ad Editor in Chief for Journal of Pest Science. From 2018 to 2022, he served as a member of the panel of experts of the French ANSES for biological risks for plant health and of the Italian Society of Entomology.
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My research focuses on development of integrated management strategies for insect pest control. Although citrus is the focal commodity for my current research program, I extensively collaborate with colleagues on research projects involving insect pests of temperate tree fruit, small fruit (both temperate and tropical), as well as in other agricultural commodities such as ornamental plants and vegetables. My research interests include both principles-level fundamental questions as well as practical applied questions geared toward providing solutions to major problems facing a diversity of agricultural commodities. My philosophy is to meld basic and applied research as a single pursuit. My approach is to conduct research on the behavior and ecology of insects and subsequently develop biorational management solutions. Current ongoing projects include: 1) development of behavior modifying chemicals, including attractants and repellents, for pest control with a focus on but not exclusive to citrus pests, 2) toxicological investigations of insect growth regulators, 3) quantitative measurement of pest movement patterns and dispersal behavior in relation to management practices, 4) identification of herbivore induced volatile emissions from plant roots that recruit entomopathogenic nematodes, 5) development and optimization of mating disruption technologies for moth pests, 6) enhancement of biological control by identification and development of recruitment pheromones and kairomones for natural enemies, 7) pesticide resistance management, 8) development of antifeedants to prevent plant pathogen transmission by insect vectors, 9) pheromone-mediated multitrophic parasitoid-prey interactions, 10) insect sensory physiology as it relates to pheromone and kairomone perception, and 11) optimization of pesticide spray technologies.
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Applied Chemical Ecology, Insect Behavior and Sensory Physiology, Plant-Insect Interactions, Integrated Pest Management, Insect Vector-Pathogen Interactions, Pest Management in Citrus
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Dr. Alireza Sazmand is Assistant Professor of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases at Department of Pathobiology, Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran. He completed a PhD in Veterinary Parasitology from University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria in 2016 on molecular epidemiology of vector-borne pathogens of camels. He holds DVM (2011) from Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran. Dr. Sazmand has published +100 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also supervising postgraduate students. He is editor for several international journals. His main focus in research are molecular epidemiology of zoonotic vector-borne parasitoses.
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Dr Dimitrios Ch. Kontodimas was born at November 1971 in Athens. He completed his B.Sc. at Agricultural University of Athens (1995) and his Ph.D. (2003) in Entomology at the same University. He is employed as Head Research Scientist at Benaki Phytopathological Institute (B.P.I.), Department of Entomology & Agricultural Zoology and he is Head of Laboratory of Agricultural Entomology. In addition he was teacher of “Plant Protection in Viticulture” in Technological Educational Institution of Athens and “Integrated Management of arthropods” in Msc of Sustainable Agriculture in Business in International University of Greece.
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Dr. Peng Han is a professor and research scientist from Yunnan University (China), the head of the lab "EEBIM" - (Ecological Entomology and Biological Invasion Management). The research key words of him lab include: Entomology; Insect ecology; Bottom-up effect, top-down effects and indireaction interactions in "Soil-crop-insect pests-natural enemies" multitrophic interactions; Chemical ecology; Plant defense priming; Invasive insect pest management; Development of "Multi-dimensional Managment of Multiple pests (3M)" theoretical framework.
He started his PhD study in Université Côte d’Azur (formerly named as Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Desneux (together with Dr. Eric Wajnberg and Dr. Anne-violette Lavoir) in France in 2011. Since then, he developed a series of manipulative experiments to explore the bottom-up effects of nitrogen inputs on “tomato-insect pests-natural enemies” multitrophic interactions, the indirect interactions as well as the biological control of Tuta absoluta. He then worked as a visiting research associate in INRAe Sophia Antipolis from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, he started to work as a full researcher in Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (XIEG-CAS). He led one CAS-STS project “IPM of Tuta absoluta in Xinjiang”, one international project “IPM of Tuta absoluta in Tajikistan” as well as one NSFC project "Multitrophic interactions and impacts on pest managment". At the end of 2021, he moved to Yunnan University as the PI for the new lab “EEBIM”. He has published over 40 scientific papers with some key ones in Annual Review of Entomology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Chemical Ecology, Journal of Pest Science and Entomologia Generalis. Notably, Dr. Han has led one review article on Tuta absoluta in Asia (Han et al. 2019), and co-led one review article on IPM of Tuta absoluta worldwide (Desneux et al. 2022). While Dr. Han is a regular reviewer for more than 10 journals, he also serves as the editorial member of Journal of Pest Science and Entomologia Generalis.
Education: BS, Hunan Agricultural
University (China); MS: Huazhong
Agricultural University (China); PhD: University of Nice Sophia
Antipolis (France)
Areas of responsibility: Agricultural entomology, biological control,
community ecology, bottom-up effects of abiotic variables on crop-insect
pest-natural enemies multitrophic interactions, indirect interactions, IPM
of invasive species, ecology and management of Tuta absoluta
Email: penghan@ynu.edu.cn
Other editorial duties: Associate editors for the Journal of Pest Science, Entomologia Generalis
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Past President (2020-2021)
American Mosquito Control Association
http://www.mosquito.org
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Masumeh Ziaee is Full Professor of the Plant Protection Department, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran. She got a BSc in Plant Protection at Urmia University in 2004, a MSc in Agricultural Entomology at Urmia University in 2006, and a PhD in Agricultural Entomology at Tarbiat Modares University in 2012. She was Assistant (2013-2018) and Associate Professor (2018-2023) at the Department Plant Protection Department, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. She nurture a keen interest in pesticides production and application for pest control. Her primary research interest is in the area of insecticides production and application, and effects of pesticides on insects and mites demography parameters. A particular focus is on the synthesizing and evaluating the toxicity of the eco-friendly and safe products as control strategy.
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Dr. Ioannis Eleftherianos completed his BSc degree in Crop Production from the Technological Education Institute of Larissa (Greece), a Master’s degree in Technology of Plant Protection from the University of Reading (UK), and a PhD degree in Insecticide Resistance/Insect Molecular Toxicology from the University of Bath/Rothamsted Research (UK). He conducted postdoctoral studies in Insect Immunology and Host-Pathogen Interactions at the University of Bath (UK) and in Drosophila antiviral immunity at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (UPR-9022) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Strasbourg (France). His current research involves Drosophila immune responses to nematode parasites (entomopathogenic nematodes) and their mutualistic bacteria as well as Drosophila antiviral immunity in relation to the host microbiome. He is currently a Professor of Biology in the Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for Biomedical Sciences at George Washington University in Washington DC.
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Associate Professor |
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Bsc: Plant Protection, 1994, Isfahan University of Technology, IRAN.
PhD: Insect Toxicology and Physiology , 2010, Ghent University, Belgium |
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Msc Thesis: Leafhopper fauna (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) of potato fields in Isfahan and Fereidan.
PhD Thesis: Mechanisms of acaricide resistance in strains of Tetranychus urticae: a genetic, biochemical and molecular approach. |
Dr. Jahangir Khajehali is an Associate Professor of Entomology at the Department of Plant Protection, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran. His research focuses on the mechanisms of insecticide and acaricide resistance in agricultural, veterinary, and medical pests. His expertise encompasses insect physiology, molecular and biochemical mechanisms of resistance, alternative pest control strategies, and integrated pest management.
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Hayk Mirzayans was an Iranian -Armenian entomologist. He was born in Qazzvin, Iran, to an Armenian family. He completed his primary and high school education in Qazvin and Tehran, and graduated from the University of Tehran, Faculty of Agriculture (Karaj) in 1945, upon which he was hired by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Together with a few fellow graduate students and with the aid of Russian entomologists Drs. Alexandrov, Chovachin and Kiriokhin, Mirzayans founded the Entomology and Plant Pathology Research Department, which later (in 1962) became the Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute. Despite logistic and budgetary restrictions at the time, Mirzayans managed to conduct several expeditions across the country, and his collection of insects from 1945 became the first specimens to be deposited in the departmental collection, which would later become the largest insect collection in Iran and named in his honour, the Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum (HMIM).
Mirzayans' knowledge of several languages (including Russian, French and English), communication skills and perseverance led to scientific collaborations and exchanges with many entomologists and entomological institutions around the world and resulted in growth of the insect collection and creation of an entomological library. Mirzayans was also one of the founding members of the Entomological Society of Iran (ESI) in 1965, and an active participant in the society's activities throughout his life, serving as a member of board of directors. He was the first chief editor of the Journal of Entomological Society of Iran (JESI) for many years.
Mirzayans specialized in taxonomy of Orthoptera of the Palaerarctic region but had a keen interest in several other groups including Hemiptera. He retired in 1979 but continued to work in his office in the Insect Taxonomy Research Department until the end of his life. During over 53 years of work, he trained many young entomologists, published many books and papers and described several new genera and species of insects for Iran. Several plant and insect species have been named in his honour
