Tahereh Moadeli

Tahereh Moadeli

Tahereh's MRes and PhD work focused on the development of larval diets for mass rearing of tephritid fruit flies. Larval diets that can produce large numbers of high-quality flies at minimal expense, are a key requirement of sterile insect technique programs. Tahereh developed gel diets that have greatly improved the quality of mass-reared fruit flies used in SIT programs, greatly improving program efficacy and cost-effectiveness.