What’s Up Weill? Monthly Newsletter
WELCOME
- Kaylee Bagdan, Graduate Student (PB), Roeder Lab
- Xuran Chen, Graduate Student (BBS), Hu Lab
- Osman Esen, Visiting Scientist, Lammerding Lab
- Hongyan Guan, Graduate Student (BMCB), Han Lab
- Ameen Haj-Yahia, Graduate Student (GGD), Lammerding Lab
- Kristen Nedza, Graduate Student (BMCB), Lammerding Lab
FAREWELL
- Yingying Zhang, Research Support, Yu Lab
CONGRATULATIONS
- Jeremy Baskin, awarded 2024 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award
- Nicolas Vergara Ruiz (Han Lab), received a REAP award to attend the 2025 Expression, Purification & Analysis of Proteins and Protein Complexes Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- With your help, the Weill Institute raised $1,480 on Cornell Giving Day! 🎉
RECENT PUBLICATIONSÂ
Crane Lab
- Michael Lynch: Inhibitors of Lysinoalanine Cross-Linking in the Flagella Hook as Antimicrobials against Spirochetes
Hu Lab
RECENT GRANT AWARDS
Doerr Lab
- Cornell Center for Immunology “Role of dynamic interactions between innate immunity and bacterial stress responses in shaping infection outcomes”
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, March 18
- Weill Institute Special Seminar (10am, Biotech G10) – faculty candidate Dr. Pedro Latorre-Muro (postdoctoral researcher, Puigserver Lab, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School): “Mechanisms of mitochondrial adaptive respiration”
Wednesday, March 19
- BMCB Grad Seminar (12:15pm, Stocking Hall 146) – Ziwei Fan (Han Lab): Investigating synaptic pruning using the Drosophila brain as a model system
- Weill Institute Works-in-Progress Seminar (3:30pm, Weill Hall 224) – Yifan Shen (Han Lab): Boosting versatility, consistency, and precision of CRISPR-mediated mosaic analysis in Drosophila
- Weill Institute Social Hour (4:15pm, Weill Hall 421)*NOTE – NEW TIME! Take a break from the lab to enjoy snacks, drinks, and games!
 Monday, March 24
- GGD Grad Seminar (12:15pm, Bradfield Hall 101) – Alexandra Hoff (Yu Lab)
Wednesday, March 26
- Weill Institute Special Seminar(10am, Biotech G10) – faculty candidate Dr. Tara Fisher (postdoctoral fellow, Youle Lab, NINDS/National Institutes of Health): “Dissecting organelle quality control & innate immune pathways in neurodegeneration”
Friday, March 28
- Computational Biology Grad Seminar (2pm, Weill Hall 224) – Vrushali Fangal (Yu Lab)
Tuesday, April 1
- Weill Institute Special Seminar(10am, Biotech G10) – faculty candidate Dr. Shuai Wang (postdoctoral researcher, Südhof Lab at Stanford University School of Medicine): “Understanding how neurons form synaptic connections”
Thursday, April 3
- CIP@Cornell Journal Club (11am, Weill Hall 321)
- Molecular Cell Bio Group (4pm, Weill Hall 226) – Dawen Cai (University of Michigan Medical School): “Super-resolution profiling of neuron morphology, synapse connectivity, and molecular identity”
Friday, April 4
- Weill Institute Special Seminar(10am, Biotech G10) – faculty candidate Dr. Henry De Belly (Postdoctoral scholar, Weiner Lab at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF School of Medicine)
Tuesday, April 8
- Weill Institute Special Seminar(10am, Biotech G10) – faculty candidate Dr. Niladri Sinha (Postdoctoral fellow, Green Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Wednesday, April 9
- Weill Institute Diversity Council Meeting (12pm, Weill Hall 421) – All are welcome!
- BMCB Grad Seminar (12:15pm, Stocking Hall 146) – Qingqing Huang (Fromme Lab)
Monday, April 14
- GGD Grad Seminar (12:15pm, Bradfield Hall 101) – Chun Ting Yeh (Han Lab)
Wednesday, April 16
- Weill Institute Special Seminar(10am, Biotech G10) – faculty candidate Dr. Eva Karasmanis (Postdoctoral fellow, Reck-Peterson Lab, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC-San Diego)
Have an event that you’d like included on our WICMB Calendar? Email wicmb_admin@cornell.edu with the details!
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Big Red and Arthur are back! Follow the hawks’ livestream as they build their nest, and hopefully lay eggs in mid-late March.