News and Publications

BMCB Student Spotlight: Lina Bagepalli

BMCB Graduate student Irma Fernadez wins award from Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Textbook released on Industrial Microbiology co-authored by David Wilson, MBG faculty member from 1967-2017

Andrea Acevedo (Biophysics alumni, PhD 2018, Nicholson lab) is featured in an episode of the podcast Caminos en Ciencia (Pathways in Science).   
Her advocacy of women and diversity in science continues! 
 

Kelly Liu found an unexpected mutation in the transparent roundworm C. elegans. Learn more and view video on her work.

Ryan Feathers, BMCB Student in the Fromme Lab receives the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.

Standard genome for heavily studied worm gets reboot

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.

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.

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

Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Vandana Raghavan

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.

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”

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

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

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

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