- NCG
Adi Kliot
Senior Project Manager

Biography.
I’m a senior project manager in the Project Management Team within the Genomics Pipelines Group and am primarily in charge of ensuring efficient high-throughput NGS project delivery.
I’m an entomologist by training, specializing in molecular genetics of hemipteran agricultural pests.
Before joining EI, I completed my PhD at the Israeli Agricultural Research Organisation and Hebrew University studying interactions between bacteria, virus and insect during transmission of plant viruses by insects.
After which I came to the UK as a Royal Society fellow at the John Innes Centre to study a plant pathogenic bacteria transmitted by insects.
Publications.
Fitness costs associated with insecticide resistance
Kliot A, Ghanim M (2012) Pest Management Science 68(11):1431-1437
Dispersal, endosymbiont abundance and fitness-related consequences of inbreeding and outbreeding in a social beetle
Tremmel M, Steinitz H, Kliot A, Harari A, Lubin Y (2020) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society blz204
Combined infection with Tomato yellow leaf curl virus and Rickettsia influences fecundity, attraction to infected plants and expression of immunity-related genes in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci
Kliot A, Kontsedalov S, Lebedev G, Czosnek H, Ghanim M (2019) Journal of General Virology 100(4)
A multi-layered mechanistic modelling approach to understand how effector genes extend beyond phytoplasma to modulate plant hosts, insect vectors and the environment
Tomkins M, Kliot A, Marée AFM (2018) Current Opinion in Plant Biology 44:39-48
The draft genome of whitefly Bemisia tabaci MEAM1, a global crop pest, provides novel insights into virus transmission, host adaptation, and insecticide resistance
Chen W, Hasegawa DK, Kaur N, Kliot A et al (2016) BMC Biology 14(110)