H E B R E W  U N I V E R S I T Y  O F  J E R U S A L E M
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment

DEPARTMENT OF  ENTOMOLOGY

Ephraim Cohen

Professor of Entomology


Department Of Entomology
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
P.O Box 12, Rehovot 76100, ISRAEL

Tel: 972-8-9489718
Fax: 972-8-9466768
e-mail address: ecohen@agri.huji.ac.il
                                                                                         


Professor since 1990

Research Areas:

  • Pest Control, Toxicology of Pesticides

Teaching:

  • Introduction to Pest Control
  • Chemical Control of Pests
  • Toxicology of Pesticides

Research Interests:

  • Chitin biochemistry
  • Genes coding for chitin synthase in insects
  • Photostabilization of biocontrol agents
  • Resistance and resistance management of insect pests
  • Biochemical mechanisms of resistance in insect pests
  • Biological clocks and circadian rhythms in insects
     
 

Selected publications:

Cohen, E. 1987. Chitin biochemistry: Synthesis and inhibition. Annu. Rev. Entomol.
32, 71-93.

Cohen, E., G. B. Quistad and J. E. Casida, 1966. Cytotoxicity of nimbolide,
epoxyazadiradione and other limonoids from neem insecticide. Life Sci. 58, 1075-
1081.

Cohen, E., T. Joseph and M. Wasserman-Golan, 2001. Photostabilization of
biocontrol agents by berberine. Intern. J. Pest Manag. 47, 63-67.

Cohen, E. 2001. Chitin synthesis and inhibition: a revisit. Pest Manag. Sci. 57, 946-
950.

Yerushalmi, N. and Cohen, E. 2002. Acetylcholinesterase of the California red scale
Aonidiella aurantii Mask.: Catalysis, inhibition and reactivation. Pest. Biochem.
Physiol. 72, 133-141.

Cohen.E., Joseph,T., Kahana,F. & Magdassi,S, 2003. Photostabilization of an
entomopathogenic fungus using composite clay matrices. Photochem. Photobiol. 77,180-185.

 Reuveni, H. and Cohen, E. 2004. Evaluation of mechanisms of azinphos-
 methyl resistance in the codling moth Cydia pomonella (L.). Arch. Insect
 Biochem. Physiol. 57: 92-100.
 




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