News and Publications

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

Smolka lab reports a new role for a key anti-cancer target Read more

Sarah Zanders, Ph.D. (2010 GGD, Alani lab) awarded the 2018 Searles Scholars Award Read more

Former GGD Student and Wolfner Lab member elected to National Academy of Sciences. Haifan Lin is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology, and professor of genetics and of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences. Read more

Former Genetics, Development and Physiology Student elected to National Academy. Stephen J. O'Brien (Ph.D. '71) professor, department of biological sciences, and advisor, NSU office of research and technology transfer, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Fla Read more

Marcos Simoes-Costa among 50 scientists under the age of 40 named Young Scientists 2018 by the World Economic Forum. Read more

Tony Bretscher elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Read more

Kwak lab publishes a paper titled "Systematic characterization of stress induced RNA granulation" with a cover illustration in the April 2018 issue of Molecular Cell, in collaboration with Jun Hee Lee lab in University of Michigan. In this paper, they identified specific mRNAs that are packaged into phase-separated cytoplasmic RNA granules in under cell stress. They found that these packed-away mRNAs are enriched with genes playing roles in cell survival and cancer.
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"Rudd and Grimson’s major goal is to identify the key gene regulatory networks that underlie the differences between neonatal and adult CD8+ T cells, with an eye toward understanding how age-related differences could be exploited to improve infant immunity." Read more

Yi Wen, a fifth-year doctoral student in the field of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, won the 2018 Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Read more

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce that Professor Mariana Wolfner of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University is the recipient of the 2018 Genetics Society of America Medal for her work on reproduction. Read more

Erich Schwarz's Paper "Rapid genome shrinkage in a self-fertile nematode reveals sperm competition proteins" published in Science Magazine. Read more

Erich Schwarz featured in the New York Times for his study published last week in Science. Read more