RESEARCH NEWS For ants, unity is strength – and health November 22, 2018 RESEARCH NEWS Cocoons protect ant brood during toxic disinfection October 9, 2018 RESEARCH NEWS Helping in spite of risk: Ants perform risk-averse sanitary care Ants adapt their care behavior to their own immune status | Paper in PNAS February 21, 2018 RESEARCH NEWS Deadly disinfection in ant colonies Invasive garden ants sacrifice infected nest mates to protect their colony – Study published in eLife. January 9, 2018 INSTITUTE NEWS Two ERC Consolidator Grants go to IST Austria researchers Sylvia Cremer and Fyodor Kondrashov receive prestigious funding awards from the European Research Council | Total number of ERC Frontier Research Grants awarded to researchers at IST Austria rises to 38 December 18, 2017 RESEARCH NEWS Strange undertakings: ant queens bury dead to prevent disease Undertaking behaviors reduces infection risk | Study published in BMC Evolutionary Biology October 13, 2017 News & Events News Events Newsletter
