Biography:
Dr. Zavala is Full Professor of Biochemistry and Agricultural Zoology at the School of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires and Principal researcher at CONICET. He studied Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and earned his M.S. in 2000. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 and a two-year postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign supervised by Profs May Berenbaum and Evan DeLucia, USA. He obtained the position of Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Agronomy. He has published more than 70 research articles in SCI(E) journals. He is interested in plant defenses against insect attack, and how insects respond to plant defenses, using chemical, biochemical and ecological tools.
Title : Systemic defenses of soybean seeds within the plant and pods: The role of protease inhibitors against Nezara viridula (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
Title : Plant response to a new pest of corn the stink bug Diceraeus furcatus
Title : "Soybean response to herbivory: an alternative to insecticide application?"
Title : Ethylene alone may play a key role in modulating induction of isoflavonoids, an important defense against herbivore insects in field grown soybean