Grant Award Announcement

We are pleased to share that our group, led by Prof. Murad Ghanim, has been awarded a grant from the ISF–NSFC Joint Scientific Research Program (Israel Science Foundation – National Natural Science Foundation of China).The funded project focuses on the role of the symbiotic bacterium Rickettsia in shaping whitefly populations and virus transmission, in collaboration with Prof. Jun-Bo Luan (Jun-Bo Luan Lab).