Gerhard Wingender
gwingender.bsky.social
Gerhard Wingender
@gwingender.bsky.social
Curious immunologist; interested in ‘quirky’ cells and how to make the world smarter, healthier, and happier.
www.wingenderlab.org
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#yEFIS Career Fridays Ep. 1️⃣: Research on the Other Side 👀

Join Anna Sanecka-Duin, PhD and Ewa Oleszycka as they discuss Anna’s move from academia to biotech.

🗓️ October 17th, 13:00 CEST
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October 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My highlight of the week:
An exception shattered a central dogma in biology: an ant species was described in which the queen can lay eggs of their own species (normal) but also for males of a different species (unique).
In bees, wasps, and most ant species, the workers of the colony derive from …
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.
www.nature.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM