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May. 08, 2016
 

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Prof. Frederic Libersat was informed last week that he had received a prestigious grant from the National Geographic Society. He is the first BGU researcher to receive such a grant.

The grant will finance his research project “Characterization of two solitary parasitoids wasps Southeast Asia: A comparative behavioral study and identification of venom compounds responsible for the zombification of the cockroach host.” He will conduct field research in August of this year and February of next year.

Libersat is the incumbent of the Abraham and Bessie Zacks Chair in Neurobiology and a member of the Department of Life Sciences and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience.

His research focuses on neuroparasitology, an emerging branch of science that deals with how parasites control the brain of their host.