FAREWELL

• Manuela Alvarado Obando, Research Support, Doerr Lab
• Mateo Torres, Postdoctoral Associate, Yu Lab

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Smolka Lab

• Will Comstock: Profiling Tel1 Signaling Reveals a Non-Canonical Motif Targeting DNA Repair and Telomere Control Machineries

Yu Lab

• Yingying Zhang: A multiscale functional map of somatic mutations in cancer integrating protein structure and network topology

RECENT GRANT AWARDS

Roeder Lab

• U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF): “A quantitative approach to reveal inter-tissue cell growth coordination and its molecular readout”

UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, February 19

• BMCB Grad Seminar (12:15pm, Stocking Hall 146) – Yiting Cao (Smolka Lab): Mechanisms Controlling DNA Replication Fork Restart

Thursday, February 20

• Microbiology Grad Seminar (11:15am, Morrison Hall B82) – Facundo Torres (Doerr Lab)

• Weill Institute Social Hour (4:15am, WH 421) *NOTE LATER TIME! Take a break from the lab to enjoy snacks, drinks, and games!

Wednesday, February 26

• BMCB Grad Seminar (12:15, Stocking Hall 146) –Nicolas Vergara Ruiz (Han Lab)

• REAP Workshop (3pm, WH 226) – Luke Arnce (Aquadro Lab): Comparative Analysis of Protein Structures using AlphaFold and ChimeraX Registration is required! Sign up here.

Friday, February 28

• Comp Bio Grad Seminar (2pm, WH 224) – Yutong Zhu & Yilin Liu (Yu Lab)

Wednesday, March 5

• Molecular Cell Bio Group (4pm, Wh 226) – Haiyuan Yu

Thursday, March 6

• Center for Innovative Proteomics Journal Club (11am, WH 321) Special Tutorial Edition: DIA-NN and FragPipe and quantitative proteomics data evaluation, presented by Yu ‘Charlie’ Sun & Yugandhar Kumar (Yu Lab) CIP Journal Club is looking for presenters for April, May and June 2025! Sign up here to present an article or technology.

• Microbiology Grad Seminar (11:15am, Morrison Hall B82) – Nadia Nikulin (Doerr Lab)

Wednesday, March 12

• BMCB Grad Seminar (12:15pm, Stocking Hall 146) – Shrijan Bhattarai (Smolka Lab)

Thursday, March 13

• Cornell Giving Day – Donor gifts can ignite the future of discovery. Beginning February 27th, watch for an email with details on how you can encourage your friends, family, and colleagues to join in supporting the Weill Institute’s mission. Spread the word and make an impact!

Friday, March 14

• Comp Bio Grad Seminar (2pm, 224 Weill Hall) – Yu ‘Charlie’ Sun (Yu Lab)

• REAP Workshop (12pm, WH 226) – Justin Paek (Paszek Lab): Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis. Stay tuned for talk details and registration link!

Monday, March 17

• GGD Grad Seminar (12:15pm, 101 Bradfield) – Khoula Jaber (Smolka Lab)

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Members of 31 labs attended the most recent Weill Institute REAP seminar, Introduction to single-cell RNA sequencing analysis for wet lab scientists, given by Garrett Beeghly (Fischbach Lab).

WELCOME

• Yugandhar Kumar, Research Associate, Yu Lab
• Grace Ritter, Administrative Assistant
• Crane Lab Members🎉
  • Brian Crane, Professor and Director
  • Dhruva Ajit Nair, Graduate Student
  • Herbert Castillo, Graduate Student
  • Timothée Chauviré, Research Associate
  • James Clark, Graduate Student
  • Maithili Despande, Graduate Student
  • Robert Dunleavy, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Jessica Holechek, Graduate Student
  • Michael Lynch, Research Associate
  • Nicole Maurici, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Alise Muok, Research Associate
  • Gideon Smith, Graduate Student
  • Daniyal Tariq, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Jessica Whittemore, Graduate Student
  • Yajie Xu, Graduate Student
  • Rebecca Zawistowski, Graduate Student

FAREWELL

• Dylan (Din Chi) Chiu, Grad Student, Baskin Lab
• Payton Ditchfield, Technician, Han Lab
• Giovanna Panessa, Visiting Scientist, Smolka Lab
• Hind Zahr, Postdoctoral Associate, Lammerding Lab

CONGRATULATIONS

• Manuela Alvarado Obando, Doerr Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Microbiology
• Xinchen Chen, Han Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biolog
• Dylan (Din Chi) Chiu, Baskin Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
• Shagun Gupta, Yu Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computational Biology
• Bokun Xie, Smolka Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Genetics, Genomics and Development
• Noam Zuela-Sopilniak, Lammerding Lab: Promotion to Research Specialist

RECENT GRANT AWARDS

Lammerding Lab/Yu Lab

• Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, Transatlantic Networks of Excellence (G. Bonne & A. Landstrom) “PRIORITY: cardio-laminoPathy: fRom pathomechanIsms tO peRsonalIzed TherapY”

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Friday, January 24th, 12:20pm (Plant Science 404 and Zoom, passcode 916540): Plant Bio Seminar – Haiyuan Yu “Mapping whole interactomes and proteomes at single cell (type) level” hosted by Adrienne Roeder
  • Friday, January 31st: REAP award application cycle deadline
  • Thursday, February 6th, 4pm (Biotech G01): Molecular Cell Bio Group – Dr. Ryan Baldridge (Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan) hosted by Carolyn Sevier
  • Monday, February 10th, 9:30am (Biotech G01): R3 Group meeting – Smolka Lab presentation
  • Friday, February 14th, 12pm (WH 226): REAP Workshop – Garrett Beeghly, BME
  • Thursday, February 20th, 4pm (WH 421 Atrium): Weill Institute Social Hour

Have an event that you’d like included on our WICMB Calendar? Email wicmb_admin@cornell.edu with the details! 

Weill Institute holiday party shenanigans 😊 (Doerr Lab members, December 2024)

Please note that Monday events emails will be on hiatus until January 6^th.

FAREWELL

• Rubhadevi Balu, Postdoc, Yu Lab
• Shagun Gupta, Grad Student, Yu Lab

CONGRATULATIONS

• Adrienne Roeder: Promoted from Associate Professor to Professor!

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Fromme Lab

• Ryan Feathers: Structural basis for Rab6 activation by the Ric1-Rgp1 complex

Hu Lab

• Cha Yang: Regulation of TAR DNA binding protein 43 (TDP-43) homeostasis by cytosolic DNA accumulation

Yu Lab

• Dongjin Lee, Dapeng Xiong: A structurally informed human protein-protein interactome reveals proteome-wide perturbations caused by disease mutations
• Featured in Cornell Chronicle: Powerful AI tool can boost precision medicine, treatments

RECENT GRANT AWARDS

Doerr Lab

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (K. Rhee) “Open AI/ML-assisted bacterial permeability platform”

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Friday, December 20^th, 3:30pm–5:30pm: 🎉 Weill Institute Holiday Party at the Statler! 🎉
  • Your first drink is on us! After that, please bring cash or a credit card for the bar. We will have yummy appetizers and some fun games/contests also 😊
• Friday, January 10^th, 4pm (Caldwell 100): MBG Friday Seminar hosted by Chun Han – Jiefu Li (Group Leader, HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
• Wednesday, January 15^th, 4pm (Weill Hall 421): Weill Institute Social Hour – take a break from the lab to enjoy some snacks, drinks, and games!
• Friday, January 31^st: REAP award application cycle deadline

Have an event that you’d like included on our WICMB Calendar? Email wicmb_admin@cornell.edu with the details!

Happy holidays to all those celebrating… and best wishes for a new year replete with lots of useful data, grant funding, and joy all around.

WELCOME

• Cassandra Ohnmeiss, C&CB Grad Student, Baskin Lab
• Pan Su, Postdoc, Hu Lab
• Jade (Zijun) Xia, C&CB Grad Student, Baskin Lab

FAREWELL

• Caitlin Feller, Administrative Assistant
• Jin Joo Kang, Postdoc, Yu Lab

CONGRATULATIONS

• Inle Bush, Undergraduate Student, Han Lab: Awarded a CAS Undergraduate Research Program award, supporting the project: “Identification of Golgi Outpost Formation and Maturation Pathways in Drosophila melanogaster Neurons”
• Xander Lacrampe, BMCB Grad Student, Hu Lab: Awarded a Graduate School Dean’s Scholars Provost Diversity Fellowship
• Bill Loftus, Weill Institute Director of Operations: Awarded a President’s Awards for Employee Excellence, Thoughtful Leader Award
• Baskin Lab & Roeder Lab: Weill Institute Halloween Door Decorating Contest Winners!

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Yu Lab

• Dapeng Xiong: A structurally informed human protein-protein interactome reveals proteome-wide perturbations caused by disease mutations

RECENT GRANT AWARDS

Yu Lab

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (P. Cohen) “Identification of novel contraceptive targets in the human ovary”

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Wednesday, November 20^th, 4pm (421): Weill Institute Social Hour – take a break from the lab to enjoy some snacks, drinks, and games!
• Friday, November 22^nd, 4pm (Biotech G10): MBG Friday Seminar hosted by Marcus Smolka – Alberto Ciccia (Associate Professor, Columbia University) “Dissecting the DNA damage response network”
• Tuesday, December 3^rd, 2:30pm (421): Weill Institute DEI Council Meeting – all WICMB members are welcome! Lunch will be provided.
• Thursday, December 5^th, 11am (321): CIP@Cornell Journal Club, presentation by Yu Sun (Yu Lab) on this article published in Cell, about advances in identifying early biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease
• Friday, December 6^th, 9am (421): Cell Bio Journal Club, presentation by Isaac Lamptey (Fromme Lab)
• Thursday, December 12^th, 4pm (226): Molecular Cell Bio Group, presentation by Dr. Taki Nishimura (Professor, Laboratory for Membrane Systems Biology, Osaka University)
• Friday, December 20^th, 3:30pm–5:30pm: 🎉 Weill Institute Holiday Party at the Statler! 🎉 Please RSVP here by December 9^th.

🏆 Submit your nominations HERE for our Science & Service Awards 🏆

📸 Submit your best photos HERE for our Photo Contest 📸

Have an event that you’d like included on our WICMB Calendar? Email wicmb_admin@cornell.edu with the details! 

Participants from over 20 labs attended a fantastic presentation by Sarah Henretta (Lammerding Lab) – “Quantitative Fluorescence Imaging: Techniques, Experiments, and Data Analysis.” Sarah was awarded a Weill Institute REAP grant, which allowed her to attend Quantitative Florescence Microscopy, a course hosted by MDI Biological Laboratory in May 2024.

WELCOME

• • • Xuekai Wang, Postdoc, Mao Lab
    • Yongzong Yang, Grad Student, Han Lab
    • Junke Zhang, Research Support, Yu Lab

FAREWELL

• • • Marcos Navarro, Scientific Operations Manager, Center for Innovative Proteomics, Smolka & Yu Labs
    • Bokun Xie, Grad Student, Smolka Lab

CONGRATULATIONS

• • • Scott D. Emr, Samuel C. and Nancy M. Fleming Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology Emeritus: Awarded the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Crane Lab

• • • Rebecca K Zawistowski: Differential Responses in the Core, Active Site and Peripheral Regions of Cytochrome c Peroxidase to Extreme Pressure and Temperature

Han Lab

• • • Xinchen Chen: Tissue-specific knockout in Drosophila neuromuscular system reveals ESCRT’s role in formation of synapse-derived extracellular vesicles

Roeder Lab

• • • Bella Burda: Robust organ size in Arabidopsis is primarily governed by cell growth rather than cell division patterns
    • Shuyao Kong: DRMY1 promotes robust morphogenesis in Arabidopsis by sustaining the translation of cytokinin-signaling inhibitor proteins

UPCOMING EVENTS

• • • Thursday, October 17th, 4pm (WH 421): Weill Institute Social Hour – join us for snacks, drinks, and fun!
    • Friday, October 18th
      o 9am (WH 421): Cell Bio Journal Club, presentation by Mingqin Chang (Fromme Lab). Breakfast will be provided.
      o 4pm (Biotech G10): MBG Friday Seminar, hosted by Fenghua Hu: Zixu Mao – “An Organelle-Centric View of Neuronal Stress Response and Therapeutics in Parkinson’s Disease”
    • Tuesday, October 22nd, 12pm (WH 421): Cell Biology Faculty Lunch
    • Wednesday, October 23rd, 12:15pm (Caldwell Hall 100) BMCB Student Seminar by Herbert Castillo (Crane Lab)
    • Tuesday, October 29th, 12pm (WH 421) Weill Institute Faculty Meeting
    • Thursday, October 31st
      o 12:30pm (WH 125): REAP Presentation by Sarah Henretta (Lammerding Lab)
      o 3pm: Weill Institute Halloween Door Deco Contest!
    • Friday, November 1st, 9am (WH 421): Cell Bio Journal Club – breakfast provided
    • Thursday, November 7th
      o 11am (WH 321): CIP@Cornell Journal Club, presentation by Richard Gillilan (Visiting Scientist at Cornell CHESS)
      o 4pm (WH 226) Molecular Cell Bio Group, featuring presentations by Will Comstock (Smolka Lab) and Byron Rusnak (Roeder Lab)Nominate a speaker for the 2025 Weill Institute Symposium! This survey will remain open until Friday, October 25th, 2024.

Have an event that you’d like included on our WICMB Calendar? Email wicmb_admin@cornell.edu with the details!

The Weill Institute is hiring a new faculty member! Please share with your networks.

Molecular Cell Bio Group September 24 meeting – featuring a presentation by Ben Glick (U. Chicago)

WELCOME

• • • • • Juheon Chu, Computational Biology Grad Student, Yu Lab
        • Jared May, Intern, Roeder Lab
        • Alex Rose, Technician, Mao/Emr Labs
        • Aaron Shipman, Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology Grad Student, Roeder Lab
        • Ikram Ullah, Visiting Scholar, Hu Lab
        • Shawn Wang, Microbiology Grad Student, Mao Lab
        • Ian Wolff, Postdoc, Smolka Lab

FAREWELL

• • • • • Bryce Brownfield, Postdoc, Fromme Lab
        • Sarah Griffin, Weill Institute Technician
        • Shuyao Kong, Grad Student, Roeder Lab
        • Junke Zhang, Grad Student, Yu Lab
        • Weill Institute Summer Visitors:
          •  Aubrey Gerhardt, REU Student, Smolka Lab
          •  Selina Gu, Intern, Han Lab
          • Nathan Miller, REU Student, Roeder Lab
          • Ellen Pørtner, Visiting Scientist, Lammerding Lab
          • Nora Stewart, Intern, Roeder Lab
          • Carrington Thompson, REU Student, Roeder Lab
          • Shradda Vadodaria, Intern, Baskin Lab
          • Nicolas Velasco Sanchez, REU Student,

CONGRATULATIONS

• • • • • Si Chen, PhD, Roeder/Silberstein Labs: Awarded Fleming Fellowship
        • Megan Keller, PhD, Doerr Lab: Awarded CHIMID Fellowship
        • Shyuao Kong, PhD, Roeder Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Plant Science
        • Junke Zhang, PhD, Yu Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computational Biology

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Baskin Lab

• • • Xiaofu Cao: A phosphorylation-controlled switch confers cell cycle-dependent protein relocalization
    • Lin Luan: Imaging Interorganelle Phospholipid Transport by Extended Synaptotagmins Using Bioorthogonally Tagged Lipids

Doerr Lab

• • • Andrew Murtha: Multiple resistance factors collectively promote inoculum-dependent dynamic survival during antimicrobial peptide exposure in Enterobacter cloacae

Han Lab

• • • Yineng Xu: In vivo optogenetic manipulations of endogenous proteins reveal spatiotemporal roles of microtubule and kinesin in dendrite patterning

Lammerding Lab

• • • Jacob Odell: N-terminal tags impair the ability of lamin A to provide structural support to the nucleus

Mao Lab

• • • Min Wan & Marena Minelli: Phosphoribosyl modification of poly-ubiquitin chains at the Legionella-containing vacuole prohibiting autophagy adaptor recognition

RECENT GRANT AWARDS

Doerr Lab

• • • NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences R01 “Molecular mechanisms of peptidoglycan endopeptidase regulation” renewal

Lammerding Lab

• • • NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases R01 “Defining nuclear mechanisms for ultrarapid mechanically induced gene expression”

Smolka Lab

• • • NIH National Institute of Child Health & Human Development R01 (R. Weiss) “Coordination of Atr Signaling for Genetic Quality Control, Silencing, and DNA Repair during Meiosis” renewal

UPCOMING EVENTS

• • • Wednesday, September 18th, 12pm (100 Caldwell Hall): BMCB Student Seminar by Lin Luan (Baskin Lab)
    • Wednesday, September 18th, 4pm (WH 421): Community Potluck and Social Hour, hosted by the Weill Institute DEI Council – SIGN UP HERE by Monday 9/16 to bring a dish! Pizza and beverages will also be provided.
    • Friday, September 20th, 9am (WH 421): Cell Bio Journal Club, presentation by Shamar Wallace (Fromme Lab) – breakfast will be provided!
    • Wednesday, September 25th, 12pm (WH 421): Weill Institute DEI Council Meeting – lunch will be provided
    • Monday, September 30th: Deadline for submissions to the REAP award. This travel award is open to all faculty, postdocs, and grad students in Cornell life sciences research labs. Apply here!
    • Monday, September 30th, 10am (WH 224): Ph.D. Thesis Defense Seminar by Manuela Alvarado Obando (Doerr Lab)
    • Thursday, October 3rd, 4pm (WH 226): Molecular Cell Bio Group, featuring a presentation by Mathew Paszek (Assoc. Prof @ Cornell Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.) – with pizza and beer!
    • Friday, October 4th, 9am (WH 421): Cell Bio Journal Club – breakfast will be provided!

Have an event that you’d like included on our WICMB Calendar? Email wicmb_admin@cornell.edu with the details!

WELCOME

• • • • • Nora Stewart, Intern, Roeder Lab
        • Yubin Wang, Visiting Intern, Han Lab

CONGRATULATIONS

• • • • • Ryan Vignogna, PhD, Fromme Lab: Awarded NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Baskin Lab

• • • • • Brian Chen: All roads lead to OSBP
        • Hungyan Sun: Wnt/β-catenin signaling within multiple cell types dependent upon kramerregulates Drosophila intestinal stem cell proliferation

Roeder Lab

• • • • • Shuyao Kong: Self-organization underlies developmental robustness in plants
        • Shuyao Kong: Tradeoff between speed and robustness in primordium initiation mediated by auxin-CUC1 interaction

Smolka Lab

• • • • • Shannon Marshall: In-depth mapping of DNA-PKcs signaling uncovers non-canonical features of its kinase specificity

UPCOMING EVENTS 

• • • • • Wednesday, July 24^th, 4pm (WH 421): WICMB Social Hour – take a break from the lab to enjoy snacks, drinks and games with your colleagues!
        • Wednesday-Thursday, August 14-15: Weill Institute Summer Retreat in Geneva
        • Tuesday, August 20^th, 12pm (WH 421) DEI Council Meeting – lunch will be served

Have an event that you’d like included on our WICMB Calendar? Email wicmb_admin@cornell.eduwith the details!

Baskin Bowlin’ – members of the Baskin Lab brave the heat to enjoy bowling during the WICMB DEI Council Family Bowling Night this past June, at Helen Newman Bowling Center.

WELCOME

• • • • • Michael Ahn, Graduate Student, Hu Lab
        • Sarah Griffin, Weill Institute Technician
        • Alex Hoff, Graduate Student, Yu Lab
        • Elijah Jones, Graduate Student, Doerr Lab
        • Tangluo Li, Technician, Han Lab
        • Deanna Maybee, Graduate Student, Smolka Lab
        • Beth Ryan, Graduate Student, Baskin Lab
        • Mamun Sikder, Postdoctoral Associate, Hu Lab
        • Shradda Vadodaria, Visiting Intern, Baskin Lab

FAREWELL

• • • • • Richa Agrawal, Graduate Student, Lammerding Lab
        • Christina Breneman, Technician, Han Lab
        • Muyun Cui, Visiting Intern, Hu Lab
        • Jiaze Liu, Visitng Intern, Emr & Mao Labs
        • Ann Yeung, Technician, Han Lab
        • Nancy Zylich, Technician, Han Lab

CONGRATULATIONS

• • • • • Richa Agrawal, PhD, Lammerding Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology
        • Xinchen Chen, Graduate Student, Han Lab: Best Talk, 2024 Keck Biomembrane Retreat
        • Megan Keller, PhD, Doerr Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biomedical & Biological Sciences
        • Julia Li, Graduate Student, Baskin Lab: Best Poster Award, 2024 Keck Biomembrane Retreat
        • Jacob Odell, Graduate Student, Lammerding Lab: LPS BMCB Best Paper of the Year, 2024 MBG Awards
        • Yingying Zhang, PhD, Yu Lab: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biophysics

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Lammerding Lab

• • • • • Tyler Kirby: Eliminating elevated p53 signaling fails to rescue skeletal muscle defects or extend survival in lamin A/C-deficient mice.
        • Jeremy Keys: Rear cortex contraction aids in nuclear transit during confined migration by increasing pressure in the cell posterior.

Smolka Lab

• • • • • Bokun Xie: Multi-step control of homologous recombination via Mec1/ATR suppresses chromosomal rearrangements.

RECENT GRANT AWARDS

Roeder Lab

• • • • • University of Florida / National Science Foundation DBI (P. Soltis) “BII: Polyploidy: Integration Across Scales and Biological Systems”

UPCOMING EVENTS

• • • • • Week of June 24^th, 4pm (date TBD): Weill Institute Social Hour
          • Outside in the Weill Courtyard; take a break from the lab to enjoy the nice weather with friends, snacks, and drinks!
        • Tuesday, June 25^th, 12pm (WH 421): WICMB Faculty Meeting (faculty only)
        • Friday, July 12^th, time TBD (Weill Hall Courtyard) OVPRI Happy New Fiscal Year Celebration
          • Open to all Research & Innovation staff, faculty, & trainees!

REMINDER: registration for our Institute Summer Retreat in Geneva (August 14-15) is due TODAY, Monday, June 17^th. Register now!

Have an event that you’d like included on our WICMB Calendar? Email wicmb_admin@cornell.edu with the details!

Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical labs came together for a fantastic Keck Biomembrane Retreat this June!

WELCOME 

• • • • • Lanxi Hu, Postdoctoral Associate, Roeder Lab

FAREWELL

• • • • • Qiuye Zhao, Postdoctoral Associate, Yu Lab

CONGRATULATIONS

• • • • • Megan Keller, Doerr Lab: Short-Listed in The Scientist’s inaugural science writing competition “What’s Your Story?”
        • Shuyao Kong, Roeder Lab: Awarded the Barbara McClintock Graduate Student Award
        • Lilijana Oliver, Roeder Lab: Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
        • Facundo Torres, Doerr Lab: Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

RECENT PUBLICATIONS 

Baskin Lab

• • • • • Julia Li: Ultralow Background Membrane Editors for Spatiotemporal Control of Phosphatidic Acid Metabolism and Signaling

Doerr Lab

• • • • • Manuela Alvarado Obando: Genetic interaction mapping reveals functional relationships between peptidoglycan endopeptidases and carboxypeptidases

Hu Lab

• • • • • Tuancheng Feng: Loss of TMEM106B exacerbates Tau pathology and neurodegeneration in PS19 mice

UPCOMING EVENTS 

• • • • • Tuesday, April 23^rd, 10am (Biotech G10): WICMB and MBG Special Seminar – Maddie Sherlock, New York Structural Biology Center “Molecular mechanisms of translation regulation by viral RNA structures”
        • Thursday, April 25^th
          • 11:15am (Vet Research Tower, T1003-LH3) Microbiology Grad Seminar – Facundo Torres (Doerr Lab)
          • 2pm (Weill 226): CIP@Cornell Seminar – Sixue Chen, “Redox proteomics and metabolomics of guard cell immunity and CO2 response”
          • 4pm (Weill 224): Biophysics Thesis Defense Seminar – Yingying Zhang (Yu Lab)
        • Friday, April 26^th, 9am (Weill 421): Cell Bio Journal Club – Mateusz Wagner (Smolka Lab)
        • Monday, April 29^th
          • 10am (Biotech G10): WICMB and MBG Special Seminar – Debo Sardar, Baylor College of Medicine
          • 12:15pm (175 Warren Hall) BMCB Grad Seminar – Isaac Lamptey (Fromme Lab)
        • Thursday, May 2^nd
          • 11am (Weill 421): CIP@Cornell Journal Club – Yiwen Wang (Yu Lab)
          • 4pm (Weill 226): Molecular Cell Bio Group – Brooks Crickard, MBG
        • Friday, May 3^rd, 1pm (Weill 226) Comp Bio Graduate Seminar – Li Yao (Yu Lab)
        • Monday, May 6^th
          • 10am (Biotech G10): WICMB and MBG Special Seminar – Seungsoo Kim, Stanford University
          • 12:15pm (175 Warren Hall) BMCB Graduate Seminar – Nicolas Vergara Ruiz (Han Lab)
        • Tuesday, May 7^th, 12pm (Weill 421): Weill Institute Diversity Council Meeting
        • Friday, May 10^th, 9am (Weill 421): Cell Bio Journal Club
        • Monday, May 13^th, 10am (Weill 226): WICMB and MBG Special Seminar – Coral Zhou, University of California at Berkeley
        • Wednesday, May 15^th, 4pm (Weill 4^th Floor Atrium): Weill Institute Social Hour
        • Thursday, May 16^th, 10am (Weill 226): WICMB and MBG Special Seminar – Mustafa Aydogan, University of California at San Francisco
        • Monday, May 20^th, 10am (Weill 226): WICMB and MBG Special Seminar – Katie Goodwin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Cornell University’s beloved red-tailed hawk family, Big Red and Arthur, admire their four newly laid eggs in their nest near Weill Hall on 3/26/24.  Cornell Red-tailed Hawks Live Cam

Weill Institute members observed the Total Eclipse on 4/8/24. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR, WEILL INSTITUTE!

WELCOME NEW WEILL MEMBERS (since September 1, 2023)

• • • • • Aditya Bhattacharyya, Graduate Student in Baskin Lab
        • Minqin Chang, Postdoctoral Associate in Fromme Lab
        • Muyun Cui, Visiting Intern in Hu Lab
        • Anna Hazelwood, Graduate Student in Lammerding Lab
        • Yuding ‘Richard’ Huang, Graduate Student in Baskin Lab
        • Giovanna Panessa, Visiting Scientist in Smolka Lab
        • Alfred Sun, Undergraduate Communications Assistant, Admin Team
        • Yuliang Tang, Postdoctoral Associate in Yu Lab
        • Sharad Tat, Postdoctoral Associate in Hu Lab
        • Patricia Vila, Undergraduate Communications Assistant, Admin Team
        • Xinyu ‘Shawn’ Wang, Visiting Intern in Mao Lab
        • Yiwen Wang, Graduate Student in Yu Lab

FAREWELL – WE’LL MISS YOU! (departures since September 1, 2023)

• • • • • Carolline Ascencao, Smolka Lab
        • Jumana Badar, Smolka Lab
        • Priscila Castilho Navarro, Yu Lab
        • Frances Clark, Roeder Lab
        • Andrew Lombardo, Bretscher Lab
        • Karim Omar, Yu Lab

CONGRATULATIONS

• • • • • Carolline Ascencao received the Weill Institute 2023 Outstanding Science Award
        • Julie Heffler received Sam and Nancy Fleming Research Fellowship
        • Lizzie Korn transferred from Undergraduate to Technician, Han Lab
        • Jawuanna McAllister received the Weill Institute 2023 Distinguished Service Award
        • Marena Minelli transferred from GRA to Postdoctoral Associate, Mao Lab
        • Marcos Navarro promoted from Postdoctoral Associate, Smolka Lab to Scientific Operations Manager, Center for Innovative Proteomics
        • Avilash Singh Yadav received Sam and Nancy Fleming Research Fellowship
        • Yineng Xu transferred from GRA to Technician, Han Lab

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (since September 1, 2023)

Fromme Lab

• • • • • Kaitlyn Manzer: The Arf-GAP Age2 localizes to the late-Golgi via a conserved amphipathic helix

Lammerding Lab

• • • • • Jacob Odell: Heterologous expression of Dictyostelium discoideumNE81 in mouse embryo fibroblasts reveals conserved mechanoprotective roles of lamins

Roeder Lab

• • • • • Joseph Cammarata: The ratio of auxin to cytokinin controls leaf development and meristem initiation in Physcomitrium patens

RECENT GRANT AWARDS

Roeder Lab

• • • • • CALS Moonshot Seed Grant Award “Adapting a synthetic biology toolbox for use in a non-model diatom”

Yu Lab

• • • • • Albert Einstein College of Medicine / NIH National Institute on Aging (Vijg) “Genetic Variant-based drug discovery targeting conserved pathways of aging”

UPCOMING EVENTS

• • • • • January 22^nd, 3PM–5PM: Welcome Back Potluck hosted by WICMB DEI Council, Weill Hall 421 and 4^th Floor Atrium (SIGN UP HERE TO BRING A DISH!)
        • January 29^th: REAP grant funding applications due – more information here
        • February 1^st, 11AM–12PM: CIP@Cornell Journal Club, “Dynamic mapping of proteome trafficking within and between living cells by TransitID” PMID: 36798302 presented by Mateusz Wagner (Smolka Lab), Weill Hall 421
        • February 1^st, 4PM–5PM: Molecular Cell Bio Group, presentation by Saki Ichikawa, Prof. Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Weill Hall 226 – Pizza provided!
        • February 13^th, 12PM–2PM: REAP Workshop Series – Targeted Proteomics, “Quantifying Proteins, Peptides, and PTMs with Maximum Sensitivity” presented by Will Comstock (Smolka Lab), Weill Hall 226 – Lunch will be provided!

WEILL INSTITUTE 2023 SCIENTIFIC PHOTO OF THE YEAR

Congratulations to Julia Li from the Baskin Lab for winning the Best Science Photo of the Year! 

Ghost cells escaping the microscope, 2023, colorized