The Molecular Cell Bio Group, hosted by the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, is a monthly interdisciplinary meeting to provide opportunities for labs across Cornell’s Ithaca campus to network and share mechanistic biology research and knowledge related broadly to Cell and Molecular Biology. We hope these meetings encourage future collaborations and the sharing of materials and ideas.

Meetings will feature two talks presented by participating labs. Talks should be no longer than 25 minutes and relatively informal, covering research that is in progress and/or planned projects. Guest speakers may be invited from outside of Cornell on occasion.

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Next meeting: February 6th, 2025 – 4PM, Biotech room G01

Upcoming Speakers – Spring 2025
 

	Ryan Baldridge – Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School “Hijacking ERAD for targeted protein degradation”	2/6/2025
	Haiyuan Yu – Tisch University Professor of Computational Biology, Cornell University	3/6/2025
	Dawen Cai – Crosby-Kahn Collegiate Professor, Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and Associate Professor of Biophysics, University of Michigan Medical School	4/3/2025
	Matthew Paszek – Associate Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University	5/1/2025

 

Our Past Speakers:

	Jan Skotheim – Professor of Biology, Stanford University “How Cells coordinate growth and division”	11/03/2022
	Bryce Brownfield – Postdoctoral Associate, Fromme Lab “Auto-inhibitory interactions of the Arf GEF Sec7, master regulator of the Golgi complex”	02/02/2023
	Martin Graef – Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics “Mechanisms and functions of autophagy”	02/02/2023
	Shuyao Kong – Graduate Student, Roeder Lab “DRMY1 promotes robust morphogenesis by maintaining translation of a fast turnover hormone signaling protein”	04/06/2023
	Cha Yang – Postdoctoral Associate, Hu Lab “Progranulin inhibits phospholipase sPLA2 – IIA to control neuroinflammation”	04/06/2023
	Misha Kazi – Postdoctoral Associate, Doerr Lab “A quest to understand chronic infection in Drosophila melanogaster”	04/06/2023
	Marc Goudge – PHD Student, Biomedical Engineering “Transmembrane mucins regulate the morphology of the endoplasmic reticulum through negative curvature generation”	04/06/2023
	Joseph Long – PHD Student, Lammderding Lab “Mecanical stimulation induced rapid expression of poised genes through nuclear mechanotransduction”	05/04/2023
	Richa Sardana – Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine “To transport, or not to, that is the question”	05/04/2023
	Gunther Hollopeter – Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine “Leveraging an esoteric phenotype in C. elegans to understand the form and function of mambrane associated machinery”	09/07/2023
	Jeremy Dittman – Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry “Molecular basis of synaptic vesicle fusion: new insights into Munc13 and Complexin function”	11/02/2023
	Avilash Yadav – Postdoctoral Associate, Roeder Lab “Coordination of growth across tissue layers is essential for determining organ morphology”	12/07/2023
	Jacqueline Ehrlich – PHD student, Kawate Lab “Open Seasame: Activation Mechanism of the ATP-releasing Pannexin Channels”	12/07/2023
	Saki Ichikawa – Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University “Chemical approaches for exploring protein modifications“	02/01/2024
	Doug Anderson – Associate Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester “Discovery and therapeutic applications of RNA ‘stitching’ (scarless RNA trans-ligation) in eukaryotic cells”	03/07/2024
	Julien Morival – Postdoctoral Associate, Lammerding Lab “Investigating rapid gene activation in response to mechanical stress”	04/04/2024
	Iwijn De Vlaminick – Associate Professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering “Spatial mapping of host-microbe interaction”	04/04/2024
	Brooks Crickard – Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics “Should I stay or should I go now? How protein phosphorylation regulates two DNA translocases during homologous recombination“	05/02/2024
	Ben Glick – Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago “Rethinking the Secretory Pathway”	09/05/2024
	Will Comstock – graduate student in the Smolka Lab, Cornell University &  Byron Rusnak – graduate student in the Roeder Lab, Cornell University	11/07/2024
	Taki Nishimura – Professor, Laboratory for Membrane Systems Biology at the Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University	04/04/2024