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New paper in @CurrentBiology by @aninditabrahma_, @Dom_Frank3, Daniel Hejazi Pastor, and @patKpiekarski @RockefellerUniv. We discovered that ants use a wild “new” mechanism to regulate gene expression at large tandem arrays of odorant receptors (1/7): authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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This week @DanielKronauer brought the ants to the people @BellHouseNY through the fantastic @SecretSciClub series. The audience asked a ton of smart questions, and the entire lab turned out in custom tees to represent their Clonal Raider Ant Project!
Muy agradecida por la amena charla con @Geraldinecastf y la oportunidad de compartir con @wiredenespanol un poco de lo que hacemos para tratar de entender la conducta de las hormigas 🐜
En @wiredenespanol estamos de mantel largo porque @leonoraoc nos contó a detalle cómo usan ingeniería genética para estudiar neurobiología en hormigas🐜
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Leonora retweeted
@Geraldinecastf talked to @leonoraoc about our recent paper on transgenic ants and how they sense alarm pheromones, and then wrote about it for Wired. It’s a great read / es una lectura fantástica:
🥁Con ustedes, las primeras hormigas transgénicas del mundo🐜, ¿lo genial? fueron creadas para hacer estudios pioneros de neurobiología en insectos sociales. En el experimento se les asusta para entender su olfato.✏️Aquí lo que escribí para WIRED:
es.wired.com/articulos/hormi…
Leonora retweeted
Researchers in @danielkronauer's lab have created the world’s first transgenic ants, whose olfactory sensory neurons flash neon green in the presence of odors. Using this new experimental system, they've shed light on how colonies respond to danger signals.rockefeller.edu/news/34185-w…
We have so much to learn about the social brain, the future of ant research is bright ✨🐜✨
Such a privilege to be part of this amazing team @RockefellerUniv @DanielKronauer
Our first neurogenetic study of ants survived peer review and just appeared OA in its final form @CellCellPress @CellPressNews: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…. @teraxurato & team @RockefellerUniv created the first transgenic ants and identified a sensory hub for alarm behavior. 1/8
Leonora retweeted
Work by twitterless MD/PhD student Iryna Ivasyk, in collaboration with @Schmitz_Lab: clonal raider ants develop normally despite greatly reduced DNA methylation, but they don’t lay eggs without a functional DNMT1 enzyme.
Work from @DanielKronauer shows that DNMT1 seems to play a crucial role during oogenesis in clonal raider ants.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Leonora retweeted
Hey friends, today our 7-year queen-like mutant project is out in Current Biology. These mutant raider ants show the core traits of parasitic ant species, but arose in a laboratory stock just a handful of generations before we discovered them -- probably due to a mutant supergene
Leonora retweeted
@MiryamNaddaf writes about the ant GCaMP study by @teraxurato, also featuring @Dom_Frank3, @lindselopes, @leonoraoc, @MendelsLOLs, @buck_trible, @ameliaritger, and @StephanyValdesR. The #preprint is here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Researchers have made transgenic ants whose antennae glow green under a microscope, revealing how the insects’ brains process alarming smells go.nature.com/3iGALFv
First transgenic ants are teaching us so much about the neural basis of social olfaction 🐜 I’m really grateful to be part of this amazing team 🐜 #science #antScienceRocks @RockefellerUniv
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Out on bioRxiv today: the first transgenic ants (in Christmas colors) provide some really cool insights into how the complex ant olfactory system works, and how general odorants and pheromones are represented in the ant brain. An absolute tour de force led by @teraxurato:
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Leonora retweeted
Life really is a precious gift 🎁 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from #PinocchioMovie.
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Here's a recap of some of the most intriguing #RockefellerScience discoveries of 2022! Breakthroughs in genetics, biochemistry, neuroscience, infectious disease, and drug development were a few of the highlights. rockefeller.edu/news/33351-i…
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Sorry, too excited to not brag a little: clonal raider ants are on the cover of Nature 🤓 @OrliSnir @RockefellerUniv
nature.com/nature/volumes/61…
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A study from @DanielKronauer's lab shows that a newly discovered “social fluid” appears to unite ant colonies across developmental stages into one superorganism. #RockefellerScience
rockefeller.edu/news/33214-a…
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Monday & Tuesday next week will be the inaugural symposium of the newly established Price Family Center for the Social Brain @RockefellerUniv. The lineup looks promising to say the least, and there’s still time to register: rockefeller.edu/events-and-l…
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It is official: @EntsocAmerica has approved “the clonal raider ant” as the common name of Ooceraea biroi. Happy cloning and raiding dear ants! 🥳#CRAP
entsoc.org/node/48247
Great opportunity to join the best #SciComm team 🤓
RockEDU *new* job listing is live! ISO of Program Manager for Outreach and Engagement Initiatives. Would be responsible for designing lab programs for students, teachers + scientists + creating/curating content for RockEDU Online, + lab org/dept upkeep.
www2.rockefeller.edu/hr/jobs…
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