Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy

@avispatica.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor @urochester.bsky.social| PI @tropbiolab.bsky.social |social behavior & brain |mechanisms underlying parasitic manipulation |adaptations & changing environments| #teamwasp #zombiewasp #strepsiptera |🇨🇷 #tica https://tropbiolab.org/FMKU/

Polistes fuscatus social wasp infected by twisted wing insects (Strepsiptera)
Cartoon inspired from a podcast by bugsneedheroes about parasites being Mind hackers.
Warm welcome to RJ Millena, pictured with some team wasp members!
Wasp colony with a picture of Alicent Hightower.
Team wasp PI holding a Polistes fuscatus
Instar 2 larva of Xenos peckii, a parasitic insect from the order Strepsiptera. This larvae infects and manipulates a social wasp, Polistes fuscatus.
Envelope addressed to Mr. And Dr. Uy for the first time! We’re both academics
Polistes stigma from the Solomon Islands in their nest
#teamwasp celebrates graduating seniors
Three Polistes dominula wasps in their newly built nest, showing their abdomen and some eggs inside the cells.
Student with a wasp shirt while holding a wasp
Flyer for a departmental TGIF gathering with any and was cartoons
Office sign showing a whole name for an assistant professor, as support to her heritage. Sign also has a rainbow-themed wasp sticker that says diversity on it.
Team wasp from Trop Bio Lab in Biology at the University of Rochester posing with our mascot, Rocky the yellowjacket.
Harpegnathos lab ant colony
Trop Bio Lab Holiday gathering. Ugly sweater theme.
Team wasp at University of Rochester
Making Costa Rican tamales. Haciendo tamales ticos