Seiji Fujimoto

• Research interests
• Insect behavioural ecology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Molecular Biology
• Microbiology

I am currently investigating the evolution of wound care strategies in various species of ants, in order to determine how wound care strategies appeared and what are the factors that affects the development of various wound care strategies in ants.  

I am working mostly with species such leafcutter ants and the queenless ant specie Diacamma cf. indicum from Asia. I hope to build a framework that will ultimately allow us to improve our knowledge on wound care behaviour and social immunity strategies in social insects.

2025–onwards PhD-Student Graduate School of Life Sciences, University of Würzburg, Germany

2018–2020 Master of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan

2013–2017 B.A. Biology Major, International Christian University Tokyo, Japan

Fujimoto, S., Lagos-Oviedo, J. J., Seibel, F., Puille, L., Hausmann, R., Corcoran, E., Schmitt, T., & Frank, E. T. (2025). Better safe than sorry: leg amputations as a prophylactic wound care behaviour in carpenter ants. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 292(2057), 20251688. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1688