Cremer Group
Sylvia Cremer is affiliated with IST Austria and will move to the campus in fall 2010.
Sylvia Cremer focuses on collective disease defence in insect societies (social immunity) using different ant species as a model. Her current projects investigate the effect of genetic diversity on social immunity and parasite detection abilities in ants, experimental and theoretical approaches of disease dynamics in socially and spatially heterogeneous groups, social vaccination and host-parasite co-evolution including experimental evolution studies. She is elected member of the "Junge Akademie" of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy; in 2009 Sylvia Cremer was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the period 2010 to 2015.