The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics shares a leading role in research and teaching in modern biology at Cornell University. The department has 33 primary faculty and 4 joint or adjunct faculty, 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 Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and have their offices in the adjoining new Weill Hall. Our faculty also play key roles in the Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics
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 have served key leadership roles in the New Life Sciences Initiative, which included the Cornell Genomics Initiative.
Smolka Lab published in Nature
DNA-repair scaffolds dampen
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Counteracting the adaptor Rad9
2012 MBG Awards
Lis & Kemphues elected to
American Academy of
Arts & Sciences.
(April 2013)
Tom Fox will receive the CALS
Edgerton Career Teaching Award
during the CALS Dean's reception
on Monday, April 22nd, 2013.
Story to follow. (April 2013)
MBG Friday Seminars
Regular seminars in Molecular Biology and Genetics are generally given at 4:00 PM on Fridays in G10 Biotechnology Building (large conference room). However, we have quite a few special seminars given on alternate days of the week, please check the date carefully. Seminars that are not held in G10 Biotechnology Building, or are at a time other than 4:00 PM will be otherwise noted.
May 17, 2013
W. Lee Kraus
Distinguished Chair & Director, Cecil H. and Ida Green Ctr. for Reproductive Biology Sciences
Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Science, Dept of Ob/Gyn
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr. @ Dallas
Title: "Chromatin-Mediated Gene Regulation by PARP-1: Control of Cellular Signaling and Differentiation Programs"
Host: John Lis
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/education/medical-school/departments/green-center/index.html
May 24, 2013
Speaker: Julius Lucks
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
Title: "TBA"
Host: Sylvia Lee
http://www.cheme.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=jl564
MBG Friday Seminar (2012-13) Calendar
Calendar for BMCB Monday graduate student seminars
Calendar for GG&D Wednesday graduate student seminars
- Biotech Reservations:
- G01(Racker-Small Conference & Seminar Room- capacity 50)
- G10 (Large Conference and Semimar Room- capacity 159-299) please email Steve Sparling - To reserve all other rooms and resources in Biotech Building
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