CONTACT INFORMATION Alihan Katlav Ph.D. student of Entomology at the Hawkesbury EMAIL Institute for the Environment (HIE), Western Sydney a.katlav@westernsyedney. University with more than six years of laboratory edu.au experience in the taxonomy of mites and insect ADDRESS biology. Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked EXPERIENCE Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia Voluntary Research Title of research: Study of parasitic mites of PHONE Assistant the families Pyemotidae and Podapolipidae +61421097858 Deparment of (Acari: Heterostigmatina) associated with Entomology, Coleoptera in the Western Mazandaran Agricultural Faculty, Province, Iran. Tarbiat Modares LANGUAGES University Tehran, Iran Turkish February-2015 - August-2016 Advanced English Advanced Persian EDUCATION Advanced M. Sc. of GPA 18.46/20 Agricultural Entomology Thesis: Heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Heterostigmatina) associated with SKILLS Tarbiat Modares Coleoptera in Western Mazandaran Province, University Iran. Tehran, Iran Taxonomy and eld 2015 sampling skills Basic molecular B. Sc. of Plant GPA 14.07/20 techniques (e. g. PCR, Protection Electrophoresis, etc.) University of Ability to work in teams Mohaghegh Ardabili and on my own Ardabil, Iran Having methodical 2012 approach to work. Insect lab skills (e. g. colony PROJECTS establishment/maintenan The role of reproductive parasites in the biology of invasive pest ce, insect collection, thrips insect organ dissection, microscopy, etc.) SPSS and R software My PhD project looks into the role of the common endosymbiotic CorelDraw software bacteria (reproductive parasites) Wolbachia and Cardinium in Adobe Photoshop reproductive biology of Kelly's citrus thrips (a haplodiploid pest species software native to Australia) and the resulting selective pressure imposed by Reviewer of the journals these bacteria on the evolution of two aspects of sexual selection, "Zootaxa", "International namely sex allocation and sperm competition. Moreover, we are aiming Journal of Acarology" and to address the underlying factors contributing to the invasion dynamics "Persian Journal of of these bacteria in their host populations. Finally, we are going to asses Acarology" the potential role of these bacteria in the biological control of thrips under the framework of the Incompatible Insect Technique (IIT). HONORS & AWARDS - F.G. Swain Research Award (2018) Hawkesbury Foundation (Western Sydney University) (11220 AUD). - Western Sydney University Postgraduate Research Award (International) - Dec 2016 - Ranked 12th among more than 3,000 participants in the National University Entrance Exam for the M.Sc. degree, Iran. - Ranked 2nd among graduate students of the Department of Agricultural Entomology, Tarbiat Modares University, 2014. - Thesis with excellent grade (20/20) in M.Sc. - Award for best M. Sc. thesis of Agricultural faculty of Tarbiat Modares University, 2015. - Award for best M. Sc. thesis in 1st Iranian International Congress of Entomology, 2015. PUBLICATIONS Katlav A. & Hajiqanbar H. (2018). First description of male and larval female of parasitic mite Eutarsopolipus abdominis (Acari: Podapolipidae) with redescription of the adult female. The Journal of Parasitology, 104(1): 1-9. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. & Talebi A.A. (2016). Two remarkable new species of the superfamily Pygmephoroidea (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Staphylinidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 109: 136-144. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. & Talebi A.A. (2015). First record of the genus Aethiophenax (Acari: Acarophenacidae) from Asia, redenition of the genus and description of a new species. Asia-Pacic Entomology, 18: 389-395. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. & Talebi A.A. (2015). A new genus and species of mites of the family Caraboacaridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Clivina ypsilon (Coleoptera: Carabidae) with notes on distribution and host range of the family. Canadian Entomologist, 147: 370-38. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. and Talebi A.A. (2015). Pseudopygmephorellus mazandaranicus sp. nov. (Acari: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoridae), phoretic on scarabaeid dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Iran. Zootaxa, 3919: 100-110. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. & Talebi A.A. (2015) A contribution to the knowledge of heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Prostigmata) in western Mazandaran Province, Northern Iran. Acarologia, 55: 311-320. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. & Talebi A.A. (2014). Dorsipes caspius n. sp. (Acari: Podapolipidae), a subelytral parasite of Pterostichus caspius (Menetries) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) with notes on host range of the genus and the distribution of the platysmae group. Systematic Parasitology, 89: 117-132. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. & Talebi A.A. (2014). First record of the genus Acanthomastix Mahunka, 1972 (Acari: Dolichocybidae) from Asia, with the description of a new species. International Journal of Acarology, 40: 7-14. In-house presentations Katlav A. (2018) Bacterial highjackers and biocontrol of thrips. Three minutes thesis - Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University (Oral presentation). Katlav A., Cook J.M. and Riegler M. (2018) Egg size-mediated sex allocation in Kelly's citrus thrips, Pezothrips kellyanus. High Degree Research Forum, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University (Poster presentation). Katlav A., Cook J.M. and Riegler M. (2017) Sex allocation and sperm competition in Kelly's citrus thrips infected by the bacterial reproductive parasites Cardinium and Wolbachia. High Degree Research Forum, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University (Oral presentation). Katlav A. (2017) Bacteria to x a thrips problem Three minutes thesis - Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University (Oral presentation). Conference Presentations Nguyen, D.T., Katlav, A., Spooner-Hart, R.N. and Riegler, M (2018). Endosymbionts modulate sex ratio bias in Pezothrips kellyanus in a temperature-dependent way. Wolbachia conference, Salem, Massachusetts, USA. Abbasi-Moqaddam F., Hajiqanbar H., Merabadi M. and Katlav A. (2015). First record of Petalomium mbrisetum (Acari: Neopygmephoridae) associated with ants Lasius sp. (Hym. Formicidae) from Iran. 1st Iranian international congress of Entomology. Aug., Tehran, Iran. Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, p. 29. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. and Talebi A.A. (2015). First record of the mite Eutarsopolipus abdominis (Acari: Podapolipdae) from Asia. 1st Iranian international congress of Entomology. Aug., Tehran, Iran. Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, p. 51. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. and Talebi A.A. (2014). First record of the mite Archidispus bembidii (Heterostigmata: Scutacaridae) from Iran. 21st Iranian Plant Protection Congress. Aug., Urmia, Iran. Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, p. 949. Katlav A., Hajiqanbar H. and Talebi A.A. (2014). First record of the phoretic relationship of the mite genus Elattoma (Heterostigmata: Pygmephoridae) on beetles of the family Bostrichidae (Insect: Coleoptera). 21st Iranian Plant Protection Congress. Aug., Urmia, Iran. Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, p. 952. Abbasi-Moqaddam F., Hajiqanbar H. and Katlav A. (2014). First record of Unguidispus okumura (Acari: Microdispidae), as a new genus and species to mites fauna of Iran 21st Iranian Plant Protection Congress. Aug., Urmia, Iran. Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, p. 959. REFERENCES Markus Riegler - Associate Professor of Entomology - Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment - Western Sydney University. Telephone :(02) 4570 1229 e-mail :[email protected] Staff Prole :http://www.uws.edu.au/hie/markusriegler PhD supervisor James Cook - Professor of Entomology - Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment - Western Sydney University. Telephone : (02) 4570 1371 e-mail : james.cookwesternsydney.edu.au Staff Prole: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/hie/people/researchers/prof essor_james_cook PhD co-supervisor Hamidreza Hajiqanbar – Associate Professor of Acarology – Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115-336 Tehran, Iran – Email: [email protected] M.Sc. supervisor Ali Asghar Talebi – Associate Professor of Entomology – Dean of the College of Agriculture (TMU) – Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115-336 Tehran, Iran – Email: [email protected] M.Sc. co-supervisor .