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
checkpoint singalling by
Counteracting the adaptor Rad9
2013 MBG Awards Summary
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
May 24, 2013
Speaker: Julius Lucks
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
Title: "Towards Unraveling the RNA Sequence-Structure Code Using High Throughput RNA Structrure Characterizaion"
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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