News and Publications

Jennie Sims, the recipient of the Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award, is probing why, how and when a cell chooses to repair itself, which has implications in cancer research. Read more

The Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which attracts some of the world’s best young talent to Cornell, has chosen eight new fellows, including Manvendra Singh, a scientist at Max-Delbrueck Centre for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany, sponsored by Cedric Feschotte, professor of molecular biology and genetics. Read more

Congrats to MBG's Mariana Wolfner on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! Read more

Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Vandana Raghavan Read more

BMCB student, Laura Thomas chosen to be Banner Bearer for the Graduate School during May 2019 graduation ceremony.

A new study reports on a robust and efficient new method – using the gene editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 – for studying gene function. Read more

Former Clark lab, MBG, and GGD member Amanda Larracuente's recent work on sequence assembly of the male fly X chromosome: Notorious Male Y Chromosome is Not a “Genetic Wasteland” Read more

Molecular Biology and Genetics Associate Professor Chris Fromme received the Faculty Mentor of the Year Award at the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, having been nominated by a Cornell mentee.
 

Laura Thomas, 5th year BMCB student in the Fromme lab is featured on the cover of the current issue of Developmental Cell

Mariana Wolfner: 2018 Genetics Society of America Medal Read more

Ailong Ke winner of The Provost Research Innovation Award for research on structural aspects of RNA function. Read more

Nobel Laureate, Dr. Richard Axel, To Give Racker Lecture on November 15 & 16 Read more

2018 American Academy of Arts and Science inductees: Tony Bretscher, current Professor at MBG and Haifan Lin, former PhD student of Mariana Wolfner in MBG and current Professor of Cell Biology at Yale

2018 Harvey Lecture speaker, John Lis Read more

GGD Student Joel Brown featured in Research Highlights of Development Read more

Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Jaclyn Bubnell Read more

Meet MBG's newest Assistant Professor, Elizabeth H. Kellogg Read more

New MBG Faculty Member! Elizabeth (Liz) Kellogg from Eva Nogales’ lab at UC Berkeley will be joining the department on Oct. 1, 2018.  Liz uses cutting-edge CryoEM and computational modeling to determine the structures of important proteins.  Her recent work on the structure of tau was published in Science. Read more

Ke lab reports in Science on the structural basis for DNA degradation by Cascade and Cas3 Read more