Mann Award winner searches for HIV's Achilles' heel
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
Mariana Wolfner recognized with 2018 Genetics Society of America Medal
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 featured in the New York Times for his study published last week in Science.
Erich Schwarz featured in the New York Times for his study published last week in Science. Read more
Erich Schwarz's Paper "Rapid genome shrinkage in a self-fertile nematode reveals sperm competition proteins" published in Science Magazine
Erich Schwarz's Paper "Rapid genome shrinkage in a self-fertile nematode reveals sperm competition proteins" published in Science Magazine. Read more
MBG faculty, Cedric Feschotte on genome size evolution
Recent faculty addition in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics talks about genome size evolution in Quanta magazine. Read more
First Posse graduates reflect on their journeys
Biochemist Peter Hinkle dies at 76
Biochemist David B. Wilson dies at 77
Alani Lab in PLOS Biology
Alani Lab, The mismatch repair and meiotic recombination endonuclease Mlh1-Mlh3 is activated by polymer formation and can cleave DNA substrates in trans Read more
Mann Award Winner Studies Degenerative Disease
Peter Sullivan, a fifth-year doctoral student, is the winner of this year's Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award for his research on ALS and FTLD. Read more
Erich Schwarz featured in February 2017 Nature Methods
The GAL4 gene expression system has been a powerful tool for two-part control of fruit fly (Drosophila) genes for over two decades; but, until now, GAL4 has not worked in the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Wang, Liu, and others have developed standardized driver and effector lines that use GAL4 from a cryophilic yeast species, Saccharomyces kudriavzevii. Unlike its more famous relative. S. cerevisiae, S. kudriavzevii grows well at temperatures close to 20 deg. C., the preferred growth temperature for C. elegans. Temperature-optimized GAL4 shows robust activity in C. elegans and should enable many new experiments in it. These findings have been published in the February 2017 issue of Nature Methods with a cover illustration representing C. elegans artistically by Voronoi tessellation. Erich Schwarz, research scientist in nematode genomics at MBG, was the Cornell member of this collaboration.
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