Michelle Kataka from the University of Nairobi (Kenia) has joined our lab through the AFRISNET and ISURP programs. Welcome, Michelle!
Our lab has been awarded a 5-year R35 (MIRA) grant by the National Institutes of General Medicine to study development and connectivity of circadian clock neurons. We are very grateful to NIH for this support and excited about the opportunities for discovery that this award will enable.
Many thanks to IU Biology for highlighting this news.
Surya Chatterjee gave a talk about her thesis work at the IU Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB) 2026 Annual Animal Behavior conference.
Dr. Fernandez will serve as one of the co-directors of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Neurobiology of Drosophila course. Application deadline: April 13th, 2026.
A new study from our lab on the effects of artificial light at night on Drosophila behavioral rhythms was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Shannon Smoot has joined our lab as a Research Associate. Welcome, Shannon!
Our recent PLOS Biology paper was highlighted by PNAS in their Front Matter section (by Amy McDermott, 'Journal Club')
Our paper on sexual dimorphism in circadian rhythms has been published in PLOS Biology.
