General

Main research topics

• Feeding and starvation effects on the overall endocrinological regulation with major
  emphasis towards reproduction in grasshoppers
• cGMP differential gene expression and foraging behaviour in social insects and locusts
• Circadian clock effects on fertility and fecundity in the locust Schistocerca
• Study of metalloprotease enzymes in evolutionary context
• Functional elaboration of innate immunity and its use for optimizing the biocontrol of locusts
• Alllatotropin receptor signalling and energy metabolism, sleep and feeding regulation
• Allatotropin regulation of feeding and reproductive succes.
• Search for peptides involved in the regulation of behaviour.