Yuval Gottlieb-Dror, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Entomology- Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Office Address:
P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Koret School of Veterinary Medicine,
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Phone: +972-(0)8-9489633
Fax: +972-(0)8-9467940
Email Address: gottlieb@agri.huji.ac.il; yuvalgd@yahoo.com

Special interests

Arthropods symbiosis, Veterinary entomology, Microbial interactions, Vector ecology, Reproductive manipulators and sex determination mechanisms.

Teaching

Scientific writing, Parasitology.

Research

In my laboratory we are studying the endosymbiotic fauna of ticks and biting midges in relation to their vectorial capacity of disease agents such as pathogenic bacteria, sporozoans and arboviruses.

Other projects include: Biological aspects of spircocercosis vector and agent, Dipteran ecology in dairy farms.

Service

Head of Final project committee.

International interests

Arthropods symbiosis, Vector-borne-diseases, Zoonoses.

Membership in Scientific organizations

- International society of symbiosis
- Entomological society of Israel
- Israel society of microbiology
- COST AF0701

Selected Recent Publications

Gottlieb, Y., Zchori-Fein, E., Mozes-Daube, N., Kontsedalov, S., Skaljac, M., Brumin, M., Sobol, I., Czosnek, H., Vavre, F., Fleury, F. and Ghanim, M. (2010) The transmission efficiency of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci is correlated with the presence of a specific symbiotic bacterium species. J. Virol. 84: 9310-9317.

Kedmi, M., Herziger, Y., Galon, N., Cohen, R.M., Perel, M., Batten, C., Braverman, Y., Gottlieb, Y., Shpigel, N. and Klement, E. (2010). The association of winds with the spread of EHDV in dairy cattle in Israel during an outbreak in 2006. Prev. Vet. Med. 96: 152-160.

Morick, D., Krasnov, B.R., Khokhlova, I.S., Gottlieb, Y. and Harrus, S. (2011) Investigation of Bartonella acquisition and transmission in Xenopsylla ramesis fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae). Mol. Ecol. 20: 2864-2870.

*Gottlieb, Y., Markovics, A., Klement, E., Naor, S. Samish, M., Aroch, I. and Lavy, E. (2011) Characterization of Onthophagus sellatus as the major intermediate host of the dog esophageal worm Spirocerca lupi in Israel. Vet. Parasitol. 180: 378-82.

Aharonson-Raz, K., Steinman, A., Bumbarov, V., Maan, S., Maan, N.S., Nomikou, K., Batten, C., Potgieter, C., Gottlieb, Y., Mertens, P. and Klement, E. (2011) The isolation and characterization of Equine Encephalosis Virus in Israel. EID In Press.

Links

Final project instruction
http://people.bu.edu/iss/
http://www.cost-fa0701.com/index.php
http://www.sove.org/Home.html