People

Marco Tasin

Position	Post-doc (INTERPLAY)
Current site of work	Fondazione Edmund Mach-IASMA
Street, number	via Mach, 1
City	S. Michele all'Adige TN
Postal code	38010
Country	Italy
E-mail	marco.tasin@iasma.it
Phone	+39 0461 615509
Mobile phone	+39 347 6448746
Degree, Msc, or PhD; when; where; on what subject; title of the thesis	PhD, 2005; Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Division of Chemical Ecology; "Sex, wine and chemical communication in grapevine moth Lobesia botrana"
Expertise	Plant-insect interactions (Chemical Ecology, Mating Disruption, Pheromones, Plant volatiles, Pest control)
Professional societies	Convenor of IOBC WG "Pheromones and other Semiochemicals in Integrated Control"; member of ECRO
Research experience, training, professional stages	7-year experience in plant- pathology: 2001-2005, Research as PhD student by IASMA and by SLU (Alnarp, Sweden) on chemical ecology of pest insects (Lobesia botrana and Cydia pomonella); from 2005 post-doc position at IASMA (chemical ecology of insect-plant-microbes interactions, host-preference in relation to feeding habit of insects, strain specific pheromone preference of Ostrinia nubilalis)
Website	http://www.iasma.it/sperimentazione_context.jsp? ID_LINK=3281&area=6 http://www.iobc-wprs.org/expert_groups/index.html
Current research area	My research concerns with pheromones and other odors involved in the chemical communication among insects of a given species and between insects, host-plants and microbes. The use of these compounds instead of pesticides is a safe method for plant protection.

Publication List (last five years):

Faccoli M, Anfora G, Tasin M. 2008. Responses of the Mediterranean pine shoot beetle Tomicus destruens (Wollaston) (Coleoptera Curculionidae Scolytinae) to pine shoot and bark volatiles. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34: 1162-1169.

Tasin M, DeMaria D, Ryne C, Cesano A, Galliano A, Anfora G, Ioriatti C and Alma, A. 2008. Effect of flat anti-hail nets on Cydia pomonella (L.) behaviour in apple orchards. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata: 129: 32-36.

Ioriatti C, Tasin M, Charmillot PJ, Reyes M, Sauphanor B. 2007. Detection of resistance to tebufenozide in field populations of codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.): methods and mechanisms. Journal of Applied Entomology 131(7): 453-459.

Tasin M, Bäckman A-C, Coracini M, Casado D, Ioriatti C, Witzgall P. 2007. Synergism and redundancy in plant volatile blends attracting grapevine moth females. Phytochemistry 68: 203-209.

Tasin M, Bäckman AC, Bengtsson M, Ioriatti C, Witzgall P. 2006. Essential host plant cues in the grapevine moth. Naturwissenschaften 93(3):141-144.

Tasin M, Bäckman AC, Bengtsson M, Varela N, Ioriatti C, Witzgall P. 2006. Wind tunnel attraction of grapevine moth females, Lobesia botrana, to natural and artificial grape odour. Chemoecology 16(2):87-92.

Anfora G, Tasin M, Bäckman AC, De Cristofaro A, Witzgall P, Ioriatti C. 2005. Attractiveness of year-old polyethylene Isonet sex pheromone dispensers for Lobesia botrana. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 117:201-207.

Tasin M, Anfora G, Ioriatti C, Carlin S, De Cristofaro A, Schmidt S, Bengtsson M, Versini G, Witzgall P. 2005. Antennal and behavioural responses of grapevine moth Lobesia botrana females to volatiles from grapevine. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31(1):77-87.

Witzgall P, Tasin M, Buser HR, Wegner-Kiss G, Mancebon VSM, Ioriatti C, Bäckman AC, Bengtsson M, Lehmann L, Francke W. 2005. New pheromone compounds in the grapevine moth Lobesia botrana. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31(12):2923-2932.

Ansebo L, Coracini MDA, Bengtsson M, Liblikas I, Ramírez M, Borg-Karlson A-K, Tasin M, Witzgall P. 2004. Antennal and behavioural response of codling moth Cydia pomonella to plant volatiles. Journal of Applied Entomology 128(7):488-493.

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