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The lab's research is currently funded by an ERC Starting Grant titled "Eco-physiological tradeoffs with crop domestication: have farming ants cracked the code". 
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The current (spring 2022) Integrative Evolutionary Biology team (L to R): Caio Leal-Dutra, Soren Henriksen, Benjamin Conlon, Paulina Chudzik, Jonathan Shik, Mille Bolander, Valentin Specht, Julie Andersen, Mads Ditlevsen, August Hansen
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April 2022 New paper accepted in Biology Letters, showing that fungal cultivar of leafcutter ants converts cellulose into edible food
The study was led by postdoc Ben Conlon
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March 2022: New paper accepted in Ecology, shows tests whether plant toxins prevent leafcutter ants from optimally provisioning their fungal cultivar
This study was led by postdoc Antonin Crumiere
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February 2022 New paper deposited on bioRxiv showing that a fungal cultivar recycles its own tissues as food for leafcutter ant farmers
This study was led by postdoc Caio Leal-Dutra
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Associate Professor
Section for Ecology and Evolution Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Research Associate Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa Ancon, Republic of Panama |
Jonathan Shik
jonathan.shik@bio.ku.dk @JonathanShik ORCID: 0000-0003-3309-7737 |