Beth Ryan, a Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate student in the Weill Institute’s Baskin Lab, has been chosen as a Young Scientist invited to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Chemistry, this June 2025. Nobel Laureates in Chemistry and 600 highly talented Young Scientists from around the world will come together in Lindau, Germany, for a unique week of scientific...

ACS Chemical Biology and the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry have announced Dr. Jeremy Baskin of Cornell University as the recipient of the 2024 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award. This award honors the contributions of an early-career individual doing outstanding work in chemical biology. Dr. Baskin will present the ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Lecture during ACS...

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers, including Weill Institute faculty member Adrienne Roeder, is developing HelioSkin, an aesthetically appealing solar-collection fabric that is inspired by the biological mechanisms that enable plants to bend toward the...

Brian Crane, the George W. and Grace L. Todd Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, an interdisciplinary hub for life sciences research at Cornell. Crane brings to the institute decades of experience studying the structure, function and mechanism of the protein systems...

A major goal of cancer biology is to understand the mechanisms driven by somatically acquired mutations. Two distinct methodologies—one analyzing mutation clustering within protein sequences and 3D structures, the other leveraging protein-protein interaction network topology—offer complementary strengths. We present NetFlow3D, a unified, end-to-end 3D structurally-informed protein interaction...

The stability of the genome relies on phosphatidyl inositol 3-kinase-related kinases (PIKKs) that sense DNA damage and trigger elaborate downstream signaling responses. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the Tel1 kinase (ortholog of human ATM) is activated at DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and short telomeres. Despite the well-established roles of Tel1 in the control of telomere maintenance,...