February 2026 

Research tech Elsa Hahn is moving forward to pursue her doctoral studies we’ll miss you! Stay tuned for her final grad school choice.

Natasha and RJ present sci comm talks at our local Rochester Nerd Nite.

Huin Lee temporarily joins the lab as a rotation student. Zoe O’Kane and Aidan Flanders join as undergrad researchers. Welcome to all!

November 2025

Flo is interviewed as a plenary speaker from the Animal Behavior Live 2025 conference. LINK. 

October 2025

RJ joins our lab as the Biology Department’s Inaugural postdoctoral fellow! 

Renovations are done, Team Wasp moves into our new lab!

September 2025  

Rafael’s paper about cognitive decline in infected wasps is published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Paper link.

August 2025

Flo is selected as the Levinson/Shapiro faculty fellow, while Natasha and Yeshua are honored as student fellows.

Aditi and Natasha join the lab again, now as grad students!

July 2025

Flo and Karl Glastad’s Unconventional Invertebrate Core is now up and running. This effort is part of the NIH funded grant to establish the Upstate NY Comparative Biology of Aging Nathan Shock Center.

Undergrad researcher Gianna Pettine joins the lab, welcome!

May 2025 

Our seniors Aditi, Aidan & Natasha graduate, congrats!

April 2025 

Natasha defends her undergraduate honors thesis!

March 2025  

Natasha is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in Biology and selected a University of Rochester Sproull Fellow!

Yeshua is awarded a Discover summer fellowship!

Flo honored as a Scialog fellow

December 2024  

Research Associate Juan Martín Ferro returns to Argentina, we’ll miss you! Luckily Juan continues to collaborate with us.

August 2024  

Brendan Farhi temporarily joins us as a rotation student, welcome!

María’s rotation paper reporting the first long-read genome for Strepsipteran parasites is published in Scientific Data.

May 2024 

Elsa joins the lab as our research tech, welcome!

Seniors Avi Khanna & Joe Krell graduate, congrats!

March 2024  

Avi was accepted as a doctoral student in Patrick Rohner’s lab at the University of California at San Diego, congrats!

Natasha is awarded a DeKieweit fellowship, Aditi a Discover fellowship, and Aidan is a Blanche fellowship. A trifecta of undergraduate summer awards for exciting projects!

January 2024  

Research Associate Juan Martín Ferro and undergrad researcher Yeshua Alba join the lab!

Flo transitions from Research Assistant professor to Assistant Professor at UR.