Ant Lab UNAM

Ant Lab UNAM / Laboratorio de Hormigas UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas @biomedicasunam 🇲🇽🐜 Account run by lab students

[Ingrid Fetter Pruneda @IngridFetter]

Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! 🐜🧠🥳
We explore how age, social context, and neuromodulatory systems shape temporal polyethism in harvester ants.
If you’re at #IUSSI2026, stop by Carlos Zavaleta’s poster on Wednesday to hear more!
Preprint: https://t.co/3zF46QGwQX

[Ingrid Fetter Pruneda @IngridFetter]

Thrilled to share the first full paper from @AntLabUNAM!
We examine how queen and worker harvester ants differ in ovarian morphology and gene expression, shedding light on the ovary as a hub for multiple physiological systems, not just reproduction. https://t.co/gOG3Z6Tmft

[Ingrid Fetter Pruneda @IngridFetter]

Read our new #preprint on @researchsquare: Age, Caste, and Social Context Shape Ovarian Morphology and Transcriptomic Profiles in Red Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) https://t.co/4jjsyvV2FY @AntLabUNAM

[Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IIBO, UNAM @biomedicasunam]

🪅🧠 ¡Muchas felicidades a todos los ganadores del Segundo Concurso de Neuropiñatas de la Semana del Cerebro Biomédicas 2025! | #BrainAwarenessWeek #BrainWeek

[Ant Lab UNAM @AntLabUNAM]

Check out our amazing 1 and a half meter piñata 🪅 !!! We are representing the inotocin signaling within its nervous system 🐜🧠 Vote with a like pls ❤️🐜

[Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IIBO, UNAM @biomedicasunam]

🪅 Piñata: The ant connection | 👍🗳 Vota por tu favorita dejando tu like.

Segundo Concurso de Neuropiñatas de la Semana del Cerebro Biomédicas 2025 🧠 | #BrainAwarenessWeek #BrainWeek

[María Fernanda Vergara-Martínez @mafer_biomed]

Denle like ❤️ a ‘The Ant Connection”
Representando la señalización de oxitocina de una hormiga reina 👑 entre el cerebro y los ovarios 🐜💗

[Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IIBO, UNAM @biomedicasunam]

🪅 Piñata: The ant connection | 👍🗳 Vota por tu favorita dejando tu like.

Segundo Concurso de Neuropiñatas de la Semana del Cerebro Biomédicas 2025 🧠 | #BrainAwarenessWeek #BrainWeek

[UNAM @UNAM_MX]

Las hormigas son prueba de que el cerebro más pequeño puede esconder las habilidades más asombrosas 🐜 🧠. Lee la nota. 👇
https://t.co/E1DIqzHkea

[Ciencia UNAM @Ciencia_UNAM]

#AmbienteyNaturaleza | ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué en las hormigas algunas son reinas y otras obreras?
Genética, comportamiento, hormonas y más. En este artículo te contamos del estudio de @biomedicasunam https://t.co/g1QveRMFMI

[Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IIBO, UNAM @biomedicasunam]

🔬📷 El #IIBO felicita a Dennet Guerra Sandoval, estudiante de la Licenciatura en Investigación Biomédica Básica por obtener el Open Category 3rd Prize y People’s Choice Award en el 2024 Microscopy Today Micrograph Awards | #OrgulloIIBO

[Ingrid Fetter Pruneda @IngridFetter]

Congratulations to @DennetGS from @AntLabUNAM on winning 3rd place and people’s choice in the Mircoscopy Today photography contest with this stunning image of ant ovaries! Truly a beautiful capture! 📸 #Sciencebeauty

[Daniel Ríos Barrera @yosoyden]

Visitando @ibt_unam con @IngridFetter para un examen de doctorado @UNAMPosgrado
Con compañía así, el trayecto a Cuernavaca se disfruta más 😁

[María Fernanda Vergara-Martínez @mafer_biomed]

Please help me with a like ❤️ in the first tweet of my thread 🧵👇It is for a science comm contest in spanish ✨🐜

[María Fernanda Vergara-Martínez @mafer_biomed]

¿¿ Sabes cómo se relacionan las hormigas 🐜, el envejecimiento y la menopausia??
Averígualo en este hilo 👀✨ #HilandoCiencia2024 (1/10)

[Insectes Sociaux @InsSociaux]

New research article!📰

Butler et al. used DNA markers to investigate the colony structure and life history of the arboreal ant species Cephalotes goniodontus. 🐜
https://t.co/2RmjO0WlLr

#Arborealants #Cephalotes #Microsatellites #Relatedness #ants #colony #tropicaltuesday

[Ant Lab UNAM @AntLabUNAM]

Ant Lab UNAM in the First Biomedical Fair at @biomedicasunam ! 🐜 There were presentations of posters and videos of the lab members. We had such a great time 🥳✨

[Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IIBO, UNAM @biomedicasunam]

Egresa la Generación 48 de la Licenciatura en Investigación Biomédica Básica | ¡#GOYA! #OrgulloIIBO

[Ant Lab UNAM @AntLabUNAM]

@FurlanLab Muchas felicidades!!!

[Einstein Aging Center @EinsteinAging]

@OcanasSR @jenngarrison @BuckInstitute @OMRF @NUDuncanLab @IcahnMountSinai Last is Ingrid Fetter Pruneda @IngridFetter @AntLabUNAM gives a very interesting talk on the reproductive longevity in ants. Army Queens can live up to 40 years while workers only a couple months! And no reproductive aging!! The ovary transcriptome/epigenome holds many secrets

[Ant Lab UNAM @AntLabUNAM]

Today our lab member @CZavaletaZ defended his Master thesis with honors! 🥳👏 Congratulations, Carlos! 🐜 🎉🙌