Research interests
• Ticks as a vector of pathogens.
• Tick-borne Diseases (TBD's).
• Using DNA to differentiate between Tick species.
• Role of Tick Salivary glands and Mid-gut in pathogens transmission.
• Control of Ticks using herbal extracts.
• Tick immunobiology.
• Anti-tick vaccines.
• Using PCR and molecular techniques to follow the tick blood meal and assessing the anti-feeding effect of the acaricides against them.
Invited talks at seminars and conferences
• 2009: seminar in Dept. of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt "Ticks as a dangerous arthropods", 14-16 November, 2009.
• 2010: seminar in Dept. of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt "The most poisonous arthropods", 7-9 December, 2010.
• 2011: seminar in Dept. of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt "Prostaglandines in Ticks", 19-21 June, 2011.
• 2013: seminar in Dept. of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt "Studies on Some Species of Ticks" (M.Sc. Thesis seminar), 10 January,2013.
• 2014: seminar in Dept. of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt " New Aspects of Tick Feeding and Alternative Control", 14-16 June,2014.
- 2014: seminar in Dept. of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt " Tick-borne Diseases TBD's", 14-16 June,2014.
- 2015: seminar in Dept. of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt " Tick toxins: Perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks", 12-13 May, 2015.