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 [...]
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 [...]
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." [...]
Drs. Ren and De Vlaminck Share Resources and New Insights Into Ovarian Biology
September 2023 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) shared resources and new insights into ovarian biology last month with their new manuscript, titled "A Spatiotemporal Molecular Atlas of the Ovulating Mouse Ovary." In regard [...]
Drs. Place and Brieño-Enríquez Publish Paper on Naked Mole-Rat Oogenesis in Nature Communications
August 2023 Ned Place MD. PhD, (Professor in the department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences) and Miguel Brieño-Enríquez MD. PhD (former postdoctoral scholar in Paula Cohen’s lab and currently an Assistant Professor at MWRI, University of Pittsburgh), published a paper earlier this year in Nature Communications. Titled “Postnatal oogenesis leads to an exceptionally [...]
New Faculty Feature: Dr. Arunika Das
August 2023The Biomedical Sciences Department at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine is pleased to welcome Dr. Arunika Das, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the biology department at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences, who will join us as an Assistant Professor in February 2024.What aspect of your research are you [...]
New Faculty Feature: Dr. Jongmin Kim
August 2023 The Biomedical Sciences Department at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine is pleased to welcome Dr. Jongmin Kim, Ph.D., a postdoc at the Kingston Lab at Harvard Medical School, who will join us as an Assistant Professor in 2024. What aspect of your research are you most excited about right now? [...]
Dr. Schimenti Publishes Paper on Infertility in PNAS
August 2023 John Schimenti, James Law Professor of Anatomy in the Biomedical Sciences department at the College of Veterinary Medicine, published a paper this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Titled "In vivo versus in silicon assessment of potentially pathogenic missense variants in human reproductive genes," the paper addresses [...]
Equine Pregnancy Laboratory attends International Symposium on Equine Reproduction
July 2023 Dr. Mandi de Mestre and trainee members from her Equine Pregnancy lab at the Baker Institute recently attended the International Symposium in Equine Reproduction in Foz do Iagaçu, Brazil, July 10-14, 2023. The lab was well-represented at the symposium, with three selected oral presentations given by its members. One member, Jess Roach, [...]