Hybrid Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, February 9, 2024
Sylvia Cremer, Ph.D.
Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Social Immunity: Cooperative Disease Defense in Insect Colonies
Recommended Readings:
Metzler, Sina, et al. “Trade-offs between immunity and competitive ability in fighting ant males.” BMC Ecology and Evolution 12, 37 (2023).
Casillas-Pérez, Barbara, et al. “Dynamic pathogen detection and social feedback shape collective hygiene in ants.” Nature Communications 14.1 (2023): 3232.
Stockmaier, Sebastian, et al. “Behavioural defences against parasites across host social structures.” Functional Ecology 37.4 (2023): 809-820.
Viljakainen, Lumi, et al. “Antiviral immune response reveals host-specific virus infections in natural ant populations.” Frontiers in Microbiology 14 (2023): 1119002.
Stock, Miriam, et al. “Pathogen evasion of social immunity.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 7.3 (2023): 450-460.
