Marcus Smolka, professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), has been named an associate vice provost in Research & Innovation. His two-year...
May 22, 2025
Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. Even in this precise, patterned formation in plants, gene activity inside individual cells is far more chaotic than it...
May 22, 2025
“There was a time my roommate asked, ‘Why are you spending so much time in the lab?’ And that really hit me,” said Yanru Liu, a graduate researcher at Cornell’s Weill Institute for Cell...
May 20, 2025
As part of EYH, CROPPS trainee and doctoral student in plant biology Michelle Heeney hosted a workshop on biologically inspired engineering using plants with the lab of Adrienne Roeder, professor...
May 5, 2025
Dr. Adrienne Roeder joins worldwide colleagues in this commentary in The Plant Cell. Over the past 40 years, Arabidopsis has emerged as the most powerful and versatile plant model to uncover core...
May 5, 2025
A team of researchers at Cornell University have made a discovery in fruit flies that could change the way we understand brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in humans. The...
May 1, 2025
Congratulations, Byron! Byron Rusnak is a graduate student with Adrienne Roeder. Byron uses imaging and genetic techniques to measure the cellular signaling and growth patterns that lead to the...
April 30, 2025
Karisa Bockley, a BME undergraduate student in the Lammerding Lab, was recognized by the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association with their 2025 Undergraduate Research Award. This award includes...
April 25, 2025
As an undergraduate researcher in the Dörr Lab, Zoe Tarun ’25 investigates how bacteria construct and maintain a healthy cell envelope, and how they resist being killed by antibiotics. Coming to...
April 23, 2025
