Laws of Attraction: The Factors that Determine the Attraction of Black-Legged Ticks to Their Rodent Hosts

Arash holds an MSc in Agricultural Entomology from the University of Tehran in Iran and completed his Ph.D. in Entomology at Penn State University. His expertise covers a diverse range of areas, including biological control, plant-plant and plant-insect interactions, pesticide fate, plant growth-promoting bacteria, and, most recently, tick behavior.

As an explorer in the field of chemical ecology, Arash is passionate about hypothesis testing through ecological and physiological approaches. He loves using a variety of biochemical techniques, such as gas chromatography and gene transcript analysis, to explore and dissect complex biological interactions.