Alex Moss
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Michael Greene
CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology
When: Friday, October 10th 2025, 9:00am
Where: Science Building, Room 4127 (4th Floor Conference Room)
Follow the leader: Group recruitment in the "greedy" ant Tetramorium immigrans
Urban environments are one of the fastest growing environments on Earth. The creatures that inhabit them are subsequently spreading across the planet, and the field of urban ecology has arisen to tackle these increasingly common species and their interactions. In my research I investigated the recruitment processes of the common pavement ant Tetramorium immigrans using object tracking software, looking to understand how this ant rallies workers to food resources as part of a larger inquiry as to why it has become one of the most prevalent ant species in temperate cities.