Dr. Eniko Csata

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsSensory and Behavioural Biology,Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
Keywordsparasites, social behaviour, nutrition, ants, immunology

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityToulouse CEDEX
InstitutionUniversite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)
InstituteCentre de Biologie Integrative

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jürgen HeinzeInstitut für Zoologie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Prof. Dr. Sylvia M. CremerInstitute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2021

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Orbán-Bakk K, Schultner E, Heinze J, Markó B. & Csata E. Immune response varies among members of a fungus-infected ant society. In: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 213, 2025,
2024Enikő Csata, Alfonso Pérez-Escudero, Emmanuel Laury, Hanna Leitner, Gérard Latil, Jürgen Heinze, Stephen J. Simpson, Sylvia Cremer, Audrey Dussutour: Fungal infection alters collective nutritional intake of ant colonies. In: Current Biology, 34, 2024, 902-909
2024Kincső Orbán-Bakk, Magdalena Witek, Anna Dubiec, Jürgen Heinze, Bálint Markó, Enikő Csata: Infection with a non-lethal fungal parasite is associated with increased immune investment in the ant Myrmica scabrinodi. In: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 202, 2024,
2024Kincső ORBÁN-BAKK, Eva SCHULTNER, Jürgen HEINZE, Bálint MARKÓ, Enikő CSATA: Variability of immune gene expression among different groups within ant colonies show multifaceted response to infection by a non-lethal ectoparasitic fungus . In: bioRxiv, 2024,
2023Enikő Csata, Luca Pietro Casacci, Joachim Ruther, Abel Bernadou, Jürgen Heinze & Bálint Markó Non-lethal fungal infection could reduce aggression towards strangers in ants. In: Communications Biology, 6, 2023,