Public Lecture: "Behaviour and Disease in Clonal Ant Societies"
The Zukunftskolleg invited everyone to the public lecture led by Zukunftskolleg Research Award winner Yuko Ulrich.
We invited you to the public lecture by the Zukunftskolleg Research Award winner, biologist Dr. Yuko Ulrich (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena) on Friday, 18 November 2022.
Title of her talk was "Behaviour and Disease in Clonal Ant Societies".
Yuko Ulrich´s research is focused on the evolutionary interplay between social organization and disease resistance in animal societies. Living in groups comes with both advantages and dis-advantages. For example, group-living enables division of labour, which can increase efficiency; on the other hand, it can facilitate the spread of infectious diseases.
Yuko Ulrich and her team are investigating the causes and consequences of social behaviour, and whether there may actually be forms of social organisation that can reduce disease transmission, using ants as an experimental system.
Information on Yuko Ulrich: https://www.ulrichlab.com/yuko-ulrich
Information on the Zukunftskolleg Research Award: https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/about-zukunftskolleg/zukunftskolleg-research-award/