• Nikitin lab members Dr. Flesken-Nikitin and Graduate Student Coulter Ralston Co-First Author Nature Communications Publication on Origins of High-Grade Serous Carcinoma (HGSC)

    October 2024 Dr. Alexander Nikitin's (Professor of Pathology, Department of Biomedical Sciences) laboratory published an article in Nature Communications earlier this month, co-first authored by Dr. Andrea Flesken-Nikitin (Assistant Research Professor) and graduate student Coulter Ralston. The article, titled "Pre-ciliated tubal epithelial cells are prone to initiating of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma," highlights transitional [...]

  • Figure from Dr. de Mestre's study demonstrating high prevalence of triploidy and aneuploidy in equine POC

    Dr. Mandi de Mestre Publishes PNAS Article on Equine Miscarriage and Chromosomal Aberration

    August 2024 Dr. Mandi de Mestre's (Dorothy Havemeyer McConville Professor of Equine Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Baker Institute for Animal Health) laboratory published a research article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this month. The work, co-led by Postdoc Shebl Salem and laboratory manager Don Miller, along with previous [...]

  • CoRe Members Attend SSR 57th Annual Meeting

    July 2024 Last week, the Society for the Study of Reproduction hosted their 57th annual meeting in Dublin, Ireland, titled "Evolution of Reproductive Sciences - Where Should We Go?" This week-long conference hosted speakers and visitors from countries across the globe, including a number of faculty and trainees from the Cornell Reproductive Sciences Center. [...]

  • Drs. Cohen and Smolka Profiled in Cornell Chronicle for Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation Research Collaboration

    March 2024 Drs. Paula Cohen (Professor of Genetics, Biomedical Sciences; Director, Cornell Reproductive Sciences Center; Associate Vice Provost for Research and Innovation; Associate Dean for Research, College of Veterinary Medicine) and Marcus Smolka (Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics; Interim Director, Weill Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology) were profiled in the Cornell Chronicle last [...]

  • Image of dissection of a Drosophila male reproductive tract

    Drs. Brown and Wolfner Publish Article with eLife on Odorant Binding Proteins in Drosophila melanogaster

    February 2024 Nora Brown, PhD (a postdoc member of the Yamashita Lab at the Whitehead Institute and former PhD at Cornell's Wolfner Lab) and Mariana Wolfner, PhD  (Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University) published a research article, "The seminal odorant binding protein Obp56g is required [...]

  • spatial transcriptomic maps of both normal mouse ovaries and ovaries affected by hormone-controlled ovulation

    Drs. Ren and De Vlaminck Publish Collaborative Research on Ovarian Biology in PNAS

    January 2024 Yi Athena Ren, PhD (Assistant Professor in the department of Animal Science) and Iwijn De Vlaminck, PhD (Associate Professor at the Menig School of Biomedical Engineering) published research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week with their new article, "A spatiotemporal molecular atlas of the ovulating mouse ovary." [...]