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GoT-ChA: A New Tool for Detailing How Gene Mutations Affect Cells

A team co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center has developed an advanced method for revealing how gene mutations disrupt the normal packaging of DNA. These structural changes, which alter patterns of gene activity in a cell, are known as epigenetic changes and can lead to malignancy.

The new method, described in a paper published on May 8 in...

Pregnancy Cytokine Levels Impact Fetal Brain Development and Offspring Behavior

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered in a preclinical model that cytokines, proteins that control immune response, circulating in maternal blood during pregnancy may mitigate an offspring's risk for psychiatric conditions. The findings are surprising because circulating maternal cytokines are at such low levels that they were not implicated in fetal brain development and offspring behavior before.

The...

Solving the Riddle of the Sphingolipids in Coronary Artery Disease

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have uncovered a way to unleash in blood vessels the protective effects of a type of fat-related molecule known as a sphingolipid, suggesting a promising new strategy for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

In the study, published March 8 in Circulation Research, the researchers showed that boosting levels of a sphingolipid called S1P in artery-lining endothelial cells...

"Melanoma Metastasis as a Hereditary Disease and its Evolutionary Link to Infectious Disease Mortality via APOE"

May 9, 2024 - 1:00pm

Biochemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents: Sohail Tavazoie, M.D.-Ph.D. Leon Hess Professor, Sr. Attending Physician Rockefeller U. Hospital

WCGS Alumni Industry Drop-In Session - Academia/Higher Ed Admin

May 9, 2024 - 2:00pm

This Industry Drop-In Session will feature: ACADEMIA/HIGHER ED ADMINISTRATION with Alexis Tapanes-Castillo, Ph.D. ’04 (BCMB) Associate Professor of Biology, Lab Director, & Science Safety Officer, College of Health Sciences at St. Thomas University

Developing quantitative whole brain imaging to profile cellular and neural complexity

May 10, 2024 - 1:00pm

Zhuhao Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute and Appel Institute, WCM Part of the Work in Progress seminar series

Contributions of Epicardial Progenitors and Vegfc Signaling to Zebrafish Heart Maturation and Regeneration

Date: Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 10:00am

Sierra K. Duca
Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Geoffrey Pitt
Major Sponsor: Dr. Jingli Cao
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Michael Harrison and Dr. Heidi Stuhlmann

Age and Tumor Related Disease Results in Loss of Muscle Maintenance and Reduces Neuromuscular Junction Stability in Drosophila

Date: Friday, May 10, 2024 - 2:00pm

Ruth L. Silimon
Cell and Developmental Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Heidi Stuhlmann
Major Sponsor: Dr. Mary Baylies
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Lewis Cantley, Dr. Marcus Goncalves, and Dr. Jennifer Zallen

Mitochondrial Protein Aggregation and Metabolic Rewiring in CHCHD10-Related Mitochondrial Diseases

Date: Friday, May 10, 2024 - 2:00pm

Nicole M. Sayles
Neuroscience

Chairperson: Dr. David Eliezer
Major Sponsor: Dr. Giovanni Manfredi
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Annarita Di Lorenzo and Dr. Geoffrey Pitt

2024 NSF GRFP Awardees and Honorable Mentions

Congratulations to the 2024 NSF GRFP awardees and honorable mentions from our Weill Cornell Grad School community.

2023 NIH F31 Awardees

Weill Cornell Graduate School congratulates our current graduate students who received award offers in the 2023 NIH F31 program.

2023 PhRMA Foundation Fellowship in Drug Discovery

Congratulations to Aakanksha Rajiv Kapoor | PhRMA Foundation Fellowship in Drug Discovery, awarded January 2023 | BCMB Allied PhD Program | Mentored by Vivek Mittal at Weill Cornell Medicine | “Determine Mechanisms by Which Club Cell Secreted Proteins Inhibit Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells to Increase Efficacy of Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer

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