Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, December 7, 2026
Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D.
Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
How a Superorganism Generates Endogenous Rhythms
Recommended Readings:
Kronauer, Daniel JC. “The Biology of the Clonal Raider Ant (Ooceraea biroi) and Its Role as a Social Insect Model System.” Annual Review of Entomology 72 (2026).
Frank, Dominic D., and Daniel JC Kronauer. “The budding neuroscience of ant social behavior.” Annual Review of Neuroscience 47.1 (2024): 167-185.
Gal, Asaf, and Daniel JC Kronauer. “The emergence of a collective sensory response threshold in ant colonies.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.23 (2022): e2123076119.
Ulrich, Yuko, et al. “Emergent behavioral organization in heterogeneous groups of a social insect.” BioRxiv (2020): 2020-03.
Garnier, Simon, and Daniel JC Kronauer. “The adaptive significance of phasic colony cycles in army ants.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 428 (2017): 43-47.
