If you are an aspiring myrmecologist I highly recommend this course! One of the best experiences of my PhD with amazing teachers😄🐜❤️

The 2nd Münster Evolution Meeting will finally be on the menu again. See you in MS from March 13th till the 16th 2023 Details how to sign up will be on the Website and announced elsewhere. uni-muenster.de/Evolution/MEM/…. Please spread the word.

Happy to see that our publication led by Joanito Liberti made it to the cover 🐝 🥳 and congrats to Bart Zijlstra for that great picture

For interested PhD students here also some more information on what the plans are moving forward for our research twitter.com/ETF1989/status…

You will learn all methods along the way. All you need is motivation and wanting to spend time in the tropics. 🤠
The PhD can also expand to other fields like genetics or tracking if that interests you. The collaborations are all in place!
Interested? Write me an E-mail! (5/5)

Research will be focused on behaviour (how nestmates conduct woundcare), ecology (how the ecological niche affects injury rate and wound care), microbiology (what pathogens cause the infections) and chemical ecology (how do the injured ants communicate their need for care). (4/5)

We also find this behaviour in the Eciton army ants in Latin America, allowing us to compare and analyse the evolution of these behaviours and their local adaptations. One PhD student will focus on M. analis across Africa and the other on Eciton in Latin America. (3/5)

Background: One Population of the predatory ant Megaponera analis rescues injured individuals from danger and treats open wounds with antimicrobial compounds. However, this behaviour seems to be absent in another population that hunts less dangerous prey. (2/5)

Happy to see this awesome work by Joanito and colleagues in Lausanne finally come out. Loved to be a part of the team and to play around with bees 🐝 and their cool microbiome! 🦠 Stay tuned for more exciting studies coming out from this collaboration on the chemical front 😉

Two new postdoc openings 🧬🧬 to work with me Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Programme. What a wonderful timing to be at #ESEB2022 !!!

jobs.sanger.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…