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Jonathan Shik is the group leader and works on the ecology, evolution, and physiology of insects from tropical rainforests to arid Mediterranean highlands. He innovates novel approaches to explore: (1) how social insect colonies work, (2) how the physiological traits of individual workers scale up to shape the performance of whole colonies, and (3) how these systems respond to environmental stress.
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Antonin Crumiere is a postdoctoral researcher exploring the evolution and ecology of crop production in leafcutter ants. Starting in September, he will use a combination of field and laboratory experiments to explore how leafcutter ants and their domesticated fungal cultivars communicate their nutritional needs.
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Mads Wolter is a masters student using stable isotopes to study the production ecology of fungus-farming ants. Mads is co-supervised by Anders Michelsen from the Section of Terrestrial Ecology at the University of Copenhagen.
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Zsuzsanna Csontos is a masters student exploring how the fundamental nutritional niche breadth of fungal parasites influences the diversity of hosts they can infect. The project will focus on insect pathogenic fungal genus Metarhizium, more precisely, of the species M. acridum (specialist pathogen of locusts), as well as generalist insect-pathogenic fungi such as M. robertsii and M. anisopliae. Zsuzsanna is co-supervised by Professor Henrik de Fine Licht from the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.
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Pol Lannes Salvado is a Masters student from the University of Barcelona who is working on the ecology and evolution of fungus-farming ant colonies
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Birla Krabbe performed her Bachelor's thesis studying the nutritional ecology of the ant Monomorium pharaonis to understand its success as an invasive species. Birla was co-supervised by Jes Pedersen (U. Copenhagen), and is now working as a research technician in my lab.
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Maria Scotwin recently completed a bachelors thesis in my lab studying how division of labor shapes gardening behaviors across species of fungus-farming ants. Maria is now working as a research technician in my lab.
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Visitors
Alumni
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Winnie Rytter (2015-2017) completed a Masters Degree in my lab studying the physiological basis for foraging behaviors in leafcutting ants. Her first chapter was recently published in Animal Behavior. Her second chapter, just accepted to Ecology, used stable isotopes to track the flow of nutrients through the complex farming systems of leafcutter ants.
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Christoffer Bergstedt (2015-2016) completed his Bachelors Thesis in my lab (co-supervised by Jes Pedersen) at the University of Copenhagen studying nutritional ecology of invasive ants.
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Collaborators
Jacobus Boomsma (University of Copenhagen)
Bill Wcislo (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)
Pepijn Kooij (Kew Gardens)
Rachelle Adams (Ohio State University)
Juan Santos (St. John's University)
David Donoso (Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito)
Xavier Arnan (CREAF Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications)
Anders Michelsen (University of Copenhagen)
Henrik de Fine Licht (University of Copenhagen)
Jes Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)
Jacobus Boomsma (University of Copenhagen)
Bill Wcislo (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)
Pepijn Kooij (Kew Gardens)
Rachelle Adams (Ohio State University)
Juan Santos (St. John's University)
David Donoso (Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito)
Xavier Arnan (CREAF Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications)
Anders Michelsen (University of Copenhagen)
Henrik de Fine Licht (University of Copenhagen)
Jes Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)