WORK:
Assistant professor
Dept. of Plant Protection,
College of Food & Agriculture Science ,
King Saud University 2006- present
Teaching Assistant
Dept. Plant Protection,
College of Agriculture,
King Saud University 1996-1997
Plant protection specialist
Dept. of Landscape
Royal Commission
Jubail Industrial City 1992- 1996
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Entomology
Dept. of Entomology
Kansas State University January 2006
MS – Acarology
Dept. of Entomology
The Ohio State University 2001
B.Sc. - Plant Protection
Plant Protection,
College of Agriculture,
King Saud University, January 1992
TRAINING COURSES:
Acarology Summer Program (Soil Mites), The Ohio State University. 2002
Acarology Summer Program (Introduction to Acarology and Agricultural Acarology), The Ohio State University. 2001.
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Undergraduate level:
PLPT 348 Insect Ecology
PLPT 349 Non Insect Animals Pests
PLPT 446 Integrated Pest Management
PLPT 447 Biological Control of Insects
PLPT 404 Research and Discussion
PLPT 405 Field Training
For detailed Undergraduate course contents click here
Graduate level:
PLPT 508 Insect Ecology and Behavior
PLPT 510 Recent Approaches of Insect Control
PLPT 528 Acarology
PLPT 534 Biological Control(Advanced)
PLPT 536 Integrated Pest Management (Advanced)
PLPT 590 Selected Topics
PLPT 595 Seminar
PLPT 600 Thesis and Research
For detailed Graduate course contents click here
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Alatawi, F.J., J.R. Nechols, D.C. Margolies, L. Senne, and J. Boyer. Biological Control Of Twospotted Spider Mites, Tetranychus Urticae, On Impatiens Is Affected By Release Ratios Of The Predator, Phytoseiulus Persimilis (in preparation for Biological Control)
Alatawi, F.J., J.R. Nechols, D.C. Margolies. Aesthetic Damage Threshold For Twospotted Spider Mites, Tetranychus Urticae Koch On Impatiens (in preparation for Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata)
Alatawi, F.J., D.C. Margolies, and J.R. Nechols. Spatial Distribution Of Predators And Prey Affect Biological Control Of Twospotted Spider Mites, Tetranychus Urticae, Using Phytoseiulus Persimilis On Impatiens In Greenhouses (in preparation for Journal of Economic Entomology).
Alatawi, F. J. 2006. Development of Biological Control of Towspotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus urticae KOCK (ACARI: TETRANYCHIDAE) On Greenhouse Impatiens , Impatiens wallerana Hook.f. cv ‘Impulse Orange’, Using The predatory mite, Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot (Acari: PhytoseiIdae).Ph.D. Dissertation, Kansas StateUniversity.150 pp.
Alatawi, F.J., G.P. Opit, D.C. Margolies, and J.R. Nechols. 2004. Within-Plant Distribution of Twospotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), on Impatiens: Development of a Presence-Absence Sampling Plan. J. Econ. Entomol. 98:1040-1047.Al-Atawi, F.J., H. Klompen and J.C. Moser. 2002. Redescription of Schizosthetus lyriformis (Parasitiformes: Parasitidae), with Revision of the Genus. International Journal of Acrology 28: 341-360.
Al-Atawi, F.J., H. Klompen and J.C. Moser. 2002. Redescription of Schizosthetus lyriformis (Parasitiformes: Parasitidae), with Revision of the Genus. International Journal of Acrology 28: 341-360
Alatawi, F. J. 2001. Revision of The Genus Schizosthstus And Redescription Of Its Type Species S. Lariform. MS Thesis, The Ohio State University. 73pp.
Posters:
Alatawi, F. J., D.C. Margolies and J.R. Nechols. . Spatial Distribution Of Predators And Prey Affect Biological Control Of Twospotted Spider Mites, Tetranychus Urticae, Using Phytoseiulus Persimilis On Impatiens In Greenhouses
Alatawi, F. J., J.R. Nechols and D.C. Margolies. Biological control of twospotted spider mites, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), on impatiens using Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot (Acari: Phytoseidae). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Central Branch-Entomological Society of America, W. Lafayette, IN, 20-23 March 2005.
Alatawi, F., G. Opit, J.R. Nechols and D.C. Margolies. Within-plant distribution of twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), on impatiens: Development of a presence-absence sampling plan. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the North Central Branch-Entomological Society of America, Kansas City, MO, 28-31 March 2004.
Presentations:
Alatawi, F. J. 2007. Before applying biological control in Saudi Arabia. In 'Symposium biological control, Saudi Society of Agriculture Sciences. College of Agriculture, King Saud University, Riyadh
Alatawi, F. J. 2006. The most important pests attack Alfalfa in Saudi Arabia. Alquseem