How does a tomato plant decide if it’s warm enough to bear fruit?  What causes basil to bolt and rush to produce flowers when the weather gets hot? Do we really understand how plants sense...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...