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July 2025: We published a paper about my favorite gene, AMY1, which encodes salivary amylase. (It’s my favorite because it’s scandalous.)
The Cornell Chronicle published an article about it.
I was asked to create a Kudos post.
The first author is my former graduate student, Sri Lakshmi Sravani Devarakonda (PhD ’23). She completed a stint as an assistant professor at Hunter College and is now doing research at my old stomping grounds, Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Apparently, I struggle to create infograms. Here is one of my attempts. I should have asked one of my students to fix this.
May 2025: I am so grateful to the AOCS organizers, Elad Tako, Omry Koren, and Rinat Ran-Ressler, for inviting me to give a talk this week! I had so much fun hanging out and eating my way through Portland, Oregon.
April 2025: Repost from Dr. Sander Kersten- Are you unsure what to do next year and interested in an advanced degree in Nutrition and Health? The Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University has re-opened its admission process for the Master of Science program in in Nutritional Sciences starting in Fall 2025.
March 2025: I am honored to have participated on a discussion panel about
precisionnutrition with my colleagues Sean M. Gibbons and Jack Gilbert hosted by IAFNS – Advancing Food and Nutrition Sciences. The audience asked great questions, and I learned a lot.

February 2025: Our publication, The Impact of Human Salivary Amylase Gene Copy Number and Starch on Oral Biofilms, was featured in Newsweek!

I’m so grateful that Lynn Johnson helped me work this manuscript over and Julia Felice, PhD of Felice Information Design beautified the figures! The first author, Dorothy Kim Superdock, checked the final results as though our lives depended on it.
February 2025: I am so excited to share that we published a paper last week! It reports a gene: nutrient interaction with implications for precision dentistry.
Read paper hereCo-authors on this paper include my phenomenal colleague, Lynn Johnson, and brilliant former students Dorothy Kim Superdock, Jennifer Ren, Alizeh Khan, Megan Eno, and Shuai Man.The Cornell Chronicle wrote an article about our work –
Cornell Chronicle article
February 2025: Many thanks to the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics! We were awarded a seed grant for our project, Genome-scale profiling of the gut mycobiome to identify potential effects on human health. We are using this award to study how carbohydrates affect the gut mycobiome (gut fungi). The gut mycobiome contributes to digestive and immune health, and imbalances can play a role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Kalem Hanlon, a masters student in my lab, is taking the lead on this project.
December 2024: Christmas came early this year! We were awarded a seed grant from the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics for our project titled, “Genome scale profiling of the gut mycobiome to identify potential effects on human health.”
November 2024: Dr. Poole was honored to be invited by Annie Lin, PhD, RD to present a seminar at the The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota. 
September 2024: Dr. Poole was thrilled to be an invited speaker at the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Conference!
July 2024: Dr. Poole gave a talk at the 9th Conference on Beneficial Microbes in Madison, Wisconsin.
July 2024: Dr. Poole was an invited speaker at the 5th International Conference on Precision Nutrition and Metabolism in Public Health and Medicine in beautiful Ioannina, Greece. (Photo was taken on Santorini.)
June 2024: We published our first starch study manuscript in Gut microbes! The lab goal is to publish at least 7 manuscripts from the samples and data generated from this study.
This study was reported in the Cornell Chronicle and US News & World Report:
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