Publication in PLOS Computational Biology 2022

Tatjana Petrov, Matej Hajnal, Julia Klein, David Šafránek, Morgane Nouvian: "Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence"

An interdisciplinary collaboration between early career researchers – the biologist Dr Morgane Nouvian and computer scientist Junior Professor Tatjana Petrov from the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz – developed a model and methodology for quantifying how the responsiveness to the alarm pheromone evolves during a defensive event, for any given group size. The results were recently (15.09.2022) published in PLOS Computational Biology.

You can read more about the study on campus.kn. Additional press coverage is available from Eurasia Review and mdr.de, as well as in September issues of local and regional publications.

Congratulations to everyone involved.