Very innovative & detailed work by Postdoc @AntoninCrumiere from my research group #ucph#erc + beautiful use of art to communicate science! Illustrations by the brilliant Damond Kyllo #STRI#panama
The multidimensional nutritional niche of fungus‐cultivar provisioning in free‐ranging colonies of a neotropical leafcutter ant https://t.co/6JabMn2UoA
This year we celebrate 150 years of the discovery of fungus-farming ants 🐜🍄
Thomas Belt and Fritz Müller's simultaneous discoveries were communicated in @Nature by Wallace and Darwin (resp). Likewise, we remember their work in a Letter to the Editor.
https://t.co/cRL6VpbRaG
🐜🍄 Excited to share our new research in @MBEjournal! We present a highly contiguous genome of the leafcutter ant fungal cultivar Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, revealing insights into the evolutionary history of domestication in this ant-fungus symbiosis! https://t.co/a2nCLhrNkh
🐜Myrer har dyrket svampe som deres afgrøde i mange mio. år. Længe før mennesket fandt ud af at forfine vilde græsser til afgrøder som hvede, byg og majs. Bliv klogere på myrernes underjordiske landbrug 👉https://t.co/z32s0NVuIK #dkforsk@JonathanShik @SocSymEvo @koebenhavns_uni
🔬 Excited to share our latest paper! We've discovered that autophagy plays a pivotal role in the formation of reward structures (gongylidia) in L. gongylophorus fungus, benefiting their leafcutter ant farmers. 🐜🍄 #ScienceTwitter#Ants#Fungi
https://t.co/C2FZ7ovdbw
A wonderful event for Koos Boomsma, the great giant in social evolution. His 40+ years of research has inspired so many people 💪 Glad to have been one of his academic offspring ❤️Thank Jon, Michael and Susanne for organising!
Osedax bone eating worms are covered in a dense blanket of epibionts with unique genomes that undergo a successional shift as the whale carcass degrades. Are they serving a protective function? Find out more in our new paper in @mbiojournal 🪱🦠 go Balig!
https://t.co/VLYykFhELN
@Meikeesther1 Thinking back, I was incredibly young and inexperienced to have made such a momentous decision. The prospect of fieldwork on my desired study organism and a creative website were enough to reel me in
Beyond happy to share that I will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor at @ALIFE_VU@VUamsterdam this fall!
My lab will be recruiting soon, so please reach out if symbiosis, chemical ecology & fungal genomics strike your fancy!
I was excited to visit @JonathanShik and his fungi and ants at the University of Copenhagen today and give a talk about #fungalbehaviour for their unit. Lots of good questions, discussions and cute ants!
I'm thrilled to advertise a postdoctoral position using advanced imaging approaches to explore how nutrients flow through of the symbiotic fungus of leafcutter ants. 🐜🍃🔬
Come join my group at #UCPH in #Copenhagen! #carlsbergfondet
https://t.co/S3IRhyNofV
And another! PhD opportunity @CUBiosciences to work with me, the amazing Dr Jo Lello and @red_termite on the interplay between thermal tolerance and parasitism in ants. Hugely important Qs in light of climate change and global pandemics... Ad:
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