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Discover our research grants in our funding section that support our research in social immunity in ants at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
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ERC Consolidator Grant (2018-2023; PI), European Research Council
Aim of this project is to understand how social insects, particularly ants, collectively defend their colonies from disease and prevent epidemics in their societies; we seek new approaches to determine… Read more
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WWTF (Vienna Science and Technology Fund) Life Science Grant (2014-2017; Co-PI)
In this work, we teamed up with physiologists of the Medical University of Vienna to understand the role of inotocins – the oxytocin/vasopressin system of insects – on ant individual… Read more
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ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant (2010-2015, PI), European Research Council
SocialVaccines: Social vaccination in ant colonies: from individual mechanisms to society effects In this project we studied the social immunisation in ants. We found that social contact to pathogen-exposed individuals… Read more
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Research Grants by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Disease recognition and collective defence in insect societies Natural and experimental coevolution between the invasive garden ant and its parasites Read more