Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Dr Mona Moradi Vajargah

Adjunct Associate Professor
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
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Researcher biography

Dr Moradi is an entomologist with extensive experience using novel technologies to control plant and animal insect pests. As a research scientist at DAF currently she is scoping out new projects to use flies as vectors of vaccines for livestock.she is also developing projects on using Nano technology for livestock exctosparsite control.

Publications

Journal Articles (4)
Conference Paper (1)

Journal Articles

Macfadyen, Sarina, Moradi-Vajargah, Mona, Umina, Paul, Hoffmann, Ary, Nash, Michael, Holloway, Jo, Severtson, Dusty, Hill, Matthew, Van Helden, Maarten and Barton, Madeleine (2019). Identifying critical research gaps that limit control options for invertebrate pests in Australian grain production systems. Austral Entomology, 58 (1), 9-26. doi: 10.1111/aen.12382
Moradi-Vajargah, Mona and Parry, Hazel Ruth (2017). Environmental and biological drivers of flight initiation in a sporadic pest, Rutherglen bug, Nysius vinitor Bergroth (Hemiptera: Orsillidae). Austral Entomology, 56 (2), 225-234. doi: 10.1111/aen.12225
Moradi-Vajargah, Mona, Rafiee-Dastjerdi, Hooshang, Golizadeh, Ali, Hassanpour, Mehdi and Naseri, Bharam (2013). Laboratory toxicity and field efficacy of Lufenuron, Dinotefuran and Thiamethoxam against Hypera postica (Gyllenhal, 1813) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology Journal, 8 (1) 1, 448-457.
Moradi-Vajargah, Mona, Golizadeh, Ali, Rafiee-Dastjerdi, Hooshang, Zalucki, Myron P., Hassanpour, Mehdi and Naseri, Bahram (2011). Population density and spatial distribution pattern of Hypera postica (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Ardabil, Iran. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 39 (2), 42-48. doi: 10.15835/nbha3926381

Conference Paper

Crew, Kathy, Vance, Megan, Tran, Nga, Moradi, Mona and Thomas, John (2021). Better understanding of banana bunchy top disease. Australasian Plant Pathology Society, Online, 23-26 November 2021.