The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics shares a leading role in research and teaching in modern biology at Cornell University. The department has over 35 faculty and most are housed in the Biotechnology Building, a state-of-the-art facility with individual laboratories and core research facilities. Some MBG faculty are also members of the new Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and have their offices in the adjoining new Weill Hall.
The research and teaching interests of the faculty include fundamental, as well as medically relevant, problems in molecular biology, genetics, genomics, population genetics, cell biology, biochemistry, development, and macromolecular structure.Our faculty also play key roles in the New Life Sciences Initiative, which includes the Cornell Genomics Initiative.
2008-2009 MBG Annual Awards Ceremony-click here for a list of award recipients
Andy Clark was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Oulu in Finland
Click here for details
George P. Hess
named American
Academy of Arts
and Sciences
fellow (April 2009)
Eric Alani was chosen as a recipient of the Kendall S. Carpenter
Memorial Advising Award.
(April 2009)
Mariana Wolfner was selected as a recipient of the
Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished
Teaching Award (March 2009)
MBG Archive News
2009 MBG Postdoc Summer Seminar Series
Seminars will be held in G-01 Biotech, The Racker Room at 12:30p.m, on Tuesdays. (July 21st seminar to be held in 226 Weill Hall)
Hosts & Co-Organizers are Eric Alani, Sylvia Lee & Jeff Pleiss
June 2nd
Martin Buckley, Haibo Sha
June 9th
Tony Greenberg, David Hokanson
June 16th
Ewelina Bolcun-Filas, Laura Gaspar
June 23rd
Francisco Bastos de Oliveira,
Lindsay S. Burwell
June 30th
K. T. Nishant, Irene Min
July 7th
Frank Avila, Chris Stefan
July 14th
Nathan Clark, Josh Waterfall
July 21st (Weill Hall, Room 226)
Clement Chow, Jason MacGurn
July 28th
Patrick Ferree, Laura Sirot
August 4th
Charles Danko, Ludivine Walter
August 11th
Stephen Jesch, Jian Lu
August 18th
Round Table Discussion- What to expect in your first few years as a faculty member.
Weekly Seminars
- MBG Seminar Calendar
(Complete listing of 2008-09) - Calendar for G&D Wednesday graduate student seminars
- Calendar for BMCB Monday graduate student seminars