Three research programmes at Unifr have been the topic of articles in the Horizonte magazine of the Swiss National Science Foundation:

Adria Le Bœuf from the Department of Biology, and her project on the exchange of saliva in ants as a vector of communication to regulate the management of the entire colony.

[The meaning of vomit]

Sven Bacher, also in the Department of Biology, a leading expert on invasive plant species.

[Underrated threat]

See also the Unifr press release on this topic.

And finally Mayron Piccolo and Chantal Martin-Soelch, from the Department of Psychology, for their study on the role in anorexia of a cannibinoid produced by our body.

[Anorexics might lack the appetite trigger]