Fatemeh Ganjisaffar
Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Entomology and Nematology University of California, Davis
Education
Entomology, University of California, Riverside
Agricultural Entomology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Agricultural Engineering-Plant Protection, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Awards
2nd Place in the Annual UCR Dept. of Entomology Student Seminar Day, Ph.D. Poster Competition, 2015
University of California Dean’s Distinguished fellowship, 2011
9th rank in the National M.Sc. Entrance Exam in Agricultural Entomology among 942 applicants, 2006
Current Research
Publications
First report and analysis of two native Trissolcus species utilizing Bagrada hilaris eggs in California. F Ganjisaffar, EJ Talamas, MC Bon, TM Perring Journal of Hymenoptera Research (in press).
Effects of parasitoid age, host egg age, and hostegg freezing on reproductive success of Ooencyrtus mirus, on Bagrada hilaris eggs N Power, F Ganjisaffar, TM Perring Environmental Entomology doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaa150.
Evaluation of the physiological host range for the parasitoid Ooencyrtus mirus, a potential biocontrol agent of Bagrada hilaris N Power, F Ganjisaffar, TM Perring Insects 11 (7), 432.
Effect of temperature on the survival and developmental rate of immature Ooencyrtus mirus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) N Power, F Ganjisaffar, TM Perring Journal of Economic Entomology, 1-10.
Life history evaluation of Ooencyrtus lucidus, a newly described egg parasitoid of Bagrada hilaris F Ganjisaffar, TM Perring Insects 11 (5), 292.
Two new species of Ooencyrtus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae), egg parasitoids of the bagrada bug Bagrada hilaris (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae), with taxonomic notes on Ooencyrtus telenomicida SV Triapitsyn, SA Andreason, N Power, F Ganjisaffar, L Fusu, C Dominguez, TM Perring Journal of Hymenoptera Research 76, 57-98.
Lethal and sub-lethal effects of insecticides on the pink hibiscus mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) F Ganjisaffar, SA Andreason, TM Perring Insects 10 (1), 31.
Trissolcus hyalinipennis Rajmohana & Narendran (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), a parasitoid of Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae), emerges in North America F Ganjisaffar, EJ Talamas, MC Bon, L Gonzalez, BV Brown, TM Perring Journal of Hymenoptera Research 65, 111-130.
Reduced susceptibility of Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) to commonly applied insecticides SA Andreason, N Prabhaker, SJ Castle, F Ganjisaffar, DR Haviland, B Stone-Smith, TM Perring Journal of Economic Entomology 111 (5), 2340-2348.
Mutual interference between adult females of Galendromus flumenis (Acari: Phytoseiidae) feeding on eggs of Banks grass mite decreases predation efficiency and increases emigration rate F Ganjisaffar, G Nachman, TM Perring Experimental and Applied Acarology 72 (1), 1-14.
Effects of temperatures on immature development and survival of the invasive stink bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) DA Reed, F Ganjisaffar, JC Palumbo, TM Perring Journal of economic entomology 110 (6), 2497-2503
Effects of the miticide hexythiazox on biology of Galendromus flumenis (Acari: Phytoseiidae) F Ganjisaffar, TM Perring International Journal of Acarology 43 (2), 169-172.
A life table analysis to evaluate biological control of banks grass mite using the predatory mite, Galendromus flumenis (Acari: Phytoseiidae) F Ganjisaffar, TM Perring Systematic and Applied Acarology 22 (1), 7-13.
Relationship between temperature and development of Galendromus flumenis (Acari: Phytoseiidae), a predator of Banks grass mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) F Ganjisaffar, TM Perring Experimental and Applied Acarology 67 (4), 535-546.
Prey stage preference and functional response of the predatory mite Galendromus flumenis to Oligonychus pratensis F Ganjisaffar, TM Perring Biological Control 82, 40-45.
Temperature-dependent development and life table parameters of Typhlodromus bagdasarjani (Phytoseiidae) fed on two-spotted spider mite F Ganjisaffar, Y Fathipour, K Kamali Experimental and Applied Acarology 55 (3), 259.
Effect of temperature on prey consumption of Typhlodromus bagdasarjani (Acari: Phytoseiidae) on Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) F Ganjisaffar, Y Fathipour, K Kamali International Journal of Acarology 37 (6), 556-560.