First ever Poe lab holiday party (minus the undergrads)! Enjoying the lights downtown 🎄☃️

The best type of birthday cake is a fruit fly cake! My lab manager made this!! 🪰🪰🪰

First ever Poe lab BBQ was today! Now we have an official lab photo 🥳

I’m hiring another research technician! Recent college grads are encouraged to apply. Please share with anyone who might be interested. uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

Proud new PI moment this week…TWO of my Honors undergrad students got research grants for next year!! They both had to write proposals that we worked on together. I get $1,500 for each of them ($3,000 total). They get a nice stipend to work in the lab for the year 🥳🥳

Had a great time at the Han Lab reunion dinner last night #DROS25

The last of the incubators have arrived!! Now to decide what they’re going to be named. 🥳

The lab finally has incubators!! It was a real adventure getting them into the lab 😬

As my first semester ends, the lab is really coming along! Incubators, microscopes, & a technician are all coming in January 🥳

Ran the Poe lab’s first sleep experiment today!! The first of many 🥳🥳🥳

Submitted my grades for my first class today! I’m done with my first semester teaching! Now I can get the lab ready for students before next semester

Hello new/old followers! A brief (re)-introduction: I’m a new Assistant Professor at Univ of Arkansas studying circadian rhythm development in Drosophila. I’m interested in how sleep, feeding & metabolic rhythms develop.

The Poe lab officially opened today!!!! It hasn’t been cleaned out yet but the doors are open! 🥳

Extremely excited to join Bluesky to announce that my lab is opening at the University of Arkansas soon!! We’ll be studying circadian rhythm development in Drosophila. I’m recruiting at all levels!!