Zsolt Karpati
Postdoc
email: zsolt.karpati@uni-wuerzburg.de
During his PhD Zsolt has been working on electrophysiological and behavioral aspects of olfaction of the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis). During his first postdoc position at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, he worked on various aspects of neuroethology of the European corn borer, including flight behavior, electroantennograms, intracellular recordings, 3D brain reconstruction, single sensillum recordings, immunocytochemistry and molecular biology. During his Marie Curie fellowship he worked on perception/integration in the brain and the flight behavior of Manduca sexta toward host plant volatiles at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany. After his Marie Curie fellowship, Zsolt became a permanent senior research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary and he worked on various pest insect species to identify attractive host plant odors and pheromones. Curently, he is a postdoc at the University of Würzburg working on pheromone evolution of Nasonia species.