Molecular Cell Bio Group
The Molecular Cell Bio Group, hosted by the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, is a 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.
Upcoming Seminars:
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Professor of Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute TBD |
Friday February 12, 2027 4 PM Biotech G10 |
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Our Past Speakers:
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Dr. Shu-Bing Qian – Professor, Nutritional Sciences, Cornell Human Ecology: |
11/10/2025 |
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Dr. Patrick Murphy – Associate Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell CALS: Transcriptional priming of mouse retrotransposons is regulated by the histone chaperone ANP32E | 09/22/2025 |
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Matthew Paszek – Associate Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University | 05/01/2025 |
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Dawen Cai – Crosby-Kahn Collegiate Professor, Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and Associate Professor of Biophysics, University of Michigan Medical School | 04/03/2025 |
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Haiyuan Yu – Tisch University Professor of Computational Biology, Cornell University |
03/06/2025 |
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Ryan Baldridge – Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School |
02/06/2025 |
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Taki Nishimura – Professor, Laboratory for Membrane Systems Biology at the Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University | 04/04/2024 |
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Will Comstock – graduate student in the Smolka Lab, Cornell University & Byron Rusnak – graduate student in the Roeder Lab, Cornell University |
11/07/2024 |
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Ben Glick – Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago “Rethinking the Secretory Pathway” |
09/05/2024 |
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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 |
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Iwijn De Vlaminick – Associate Professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering “Spatial mapping of host-microbe interaction” |
04/04/2024 |
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Julien Morival – Postdoctoral Associate, Lammerding Lab “Investigating rapid gene activation in response to mechanical stress” |
04/04/2024 |
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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 |
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Saki Ichikawa – Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University “Chemical approaches for exploring protein modifications“ |
02/01/2024 |
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Jacqueline Ehrlich – PHD student, Kawate Lab “Open Seasame: Activation Mechanism of the ATP-releasing Pannexin Channels” |
12/07/2023 |
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Avilash Yadav – Postdoctoral Associate, Roeder Lab “Coordination of growth across tissue layers is essential for determining organ morphology” |
12/07/2023 |
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Jeremy Dittman – Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry “Molecular basis of synaptic vesicle fusion: new insights into Munc13 and Complexin function” |
11/02/2023 |
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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 |
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Richa Sardana – Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine “To transport, or not to, that is the question” |
05/04/2023 |
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Joseph Long – PHD Student, Lammderding Lab “Mecanical stimulation induced rapid expression of poised genes through nuclear mechanotransduction” |
05/04/2023 |
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Marc Goudge – PHD Student, Biomedical Engineering “Transmembrane mucins regulate the morphology of the endoplasmic reticulum through negative curvature generation” |
04/06/2023 |
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Misha Kazi – Postdoctoral Associate, Doerr Lab “A quest to understand chronic infection in Drosophila melanogaster” |
04/06/2023 |
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Cha Yang – Postdoctoral Associate, Hu Lab “Progranulin inhibits phospholipase sPLA2 – IIA to control neuroinflammation” |
04/06/2023 |
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Shuyao Kong – Graduate Student, Roeder Lab “DRMY1 promotes robust morphogenesis by maintaining translation of a fast turnover hormone signaling protein” |
04/06/2023 |
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Martin Graef – Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics “Mechanisms and functions of autophagy” |
02/02/2023 |
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Bryce Brownfield – Postdoctoral Associate, Fromme Lab “Auto-inhibitory interactions of the Arf GEF Sec7, master regulator of the Golgi complex” |
02/02/2023 |
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Jan Skotheim – Professor of Biology, Stanford University “How Cells coordinate growth and division” |
11/03/2022 |
