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Raj has been doing medical research since she was 14 years old. Now as a postdoc at Cornell, she works as a population geneticist focused on how evolutionary adaptations have elevated or lowered different groups' susceptibility to chronic disease. She's researched everything from hypertension in African patients to adaptation to cold among native Siberians.

Global Diversity Lines–A Five-Continent Reference Panel of Sequenced Drosophila melanogaster Strains

Chip Aquadro receives honorary degree from alma mater

For the first time, Cornell researchers report they have identified biological markers of chronic fatigue syndrome in gut bacteria and inflammatory microbial agents in the blood.

Linda Nicholson receives the CAS Paul Award for excellence in advising

Chip Aquadro to speak at the commencement of his Alma mater, St. Lawrence University

Challenging an existing model, Cornell researchers show the existence of two independent epidermal stem cell populations that divide at different rates and both contribute to injury repair.

Professor Emeritus Stanley Zahler passed away at 89

A Cornell-led study published May 11 in the journal Cell Host Microbe provides the strongest evidence yet that human DNA influences the type and number of bacteria that reside in each person’s gut.

Andy Clark elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Maggie Gustafson, a fifth-year doctoral student in the field of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, won the Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

Chris Fromme awarded Guggenheim fellowship in the life sciences

Genetic cues from male mosquitoes passed on during sex affect which genes are turned on or off in females post-mating, offering clues for controlling mosquitoes that carry diseases.

Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship, in recognition of outstanding teaching and mentoring of undergraduate students