👏 Congrats to postdoc Lanxi Hu, member of @roederlab.bsky.social, for being selected as the 2025 Weill Institute Fleming Fellowship recipient, for her research on how plant tissues keep their shape under stress and how those insights inspire adaptive design. 🌱 🧑‍🔬 news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Random cellular “noise” can, when combined with growth, generate surprisingly orderly patterns. Researchers from @roederlab.bsky.social in @weillinstitute.bsky.social have revealed that randomness itself can be a powerful driver of biological design. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

@smolka-lab.bsky.social researchers in @weillinstitute.bsky.social developed a new biosensor technique using barcoded peptides and mass spec to map when and where hundreds of kinase enzymes are active in cells, revealing insights into cell signaling and drug action. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Happy Halloween! Our lab door decorations show our research experimenting on us.

Looking spooky 👻 🕸️ 🎃 around @weillinstitute.bsky.social!

Members of @jeremybaskin.bsky.social lab at @weillinstitute.bsky.social learn to defeat cancer cells by blocking how they read lipid signals, using a compound called NF14 that targets the PLEKHA4 protein, offering a new alternative to current lipid-pathway drugs. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

A little upstate NY fog and drizzle aren’t going to get in the way of a walking tour of Cornell’s gorges and quads on @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social’s visit for the biannual Weill Institute Symposium! @weillinstitute.bsky.social

Come spend the some time with us! @weillinstitute.bsky.social hosts its 8th Biennial Symposium Oct. 13–14. Emerging scholars kick off the event, followed by keynotes on climate, cancer, cell biology & the origins of genetic material. 🌱🧬 🔗 news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

The Weill Institute is thrilled to host Nobel laureate Jack Szostak (Ph.D. ’77) as he returns to Cornell this fall. He will speak on “Replication of the Primordial Genetic Material” during the Weill Institute Symposium, an all-day life sciences event on October 14. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

WE'RE HIRING: Cornell University’s Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology and the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics are seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor whose research integrates cell and molecular biology with an evolutionary perspective. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

🌟 Congratulations to @weillinstitute.bsky.social founding director Scott Emr, on winning the prestigious World Laureate Association Prize! His landmark work on the ESCRT pathway reshapes our understanding of infection, cancer & neurodegeneration. 🌟 news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

@weillinstitute.bsky.social first Trainee Works in Progress Seminar of the fall semester with Mingqin Chang of @fromme-lab.bsky.social

@jeremybaskin.bsky.social lab researchers have uncovered the surprising role played by a “three-tailed” fat molecule in cellular survival during heart attack and stroke: protecting the cells against damage when oxygen runs out. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Research led by @weillinstitute.bsky.social Doerr Lab postdoctoral fellow Megan Keller reveals how sugar-phosphate buildup disrupts cell wall synthesis, offering clues to fight drug resistance. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

New research from @roederlab.bsky.social: Plant cell wall mechanics inform how to grow usable forms news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

The 2025 Ono Initiative Award is presented to @jeremybaskin.bsky.social, Stacy Malaker, ‪@angadmehta.bsky.social‬ as noted. Congratulations! Jeremy Baskin, Cornel University Stacy Malaker, Yale University Angad Mehta, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign www.onofound.org/news/ono-ini...

We’re thrilled to announce our Weill Institute 2025 Emerging Scholars –– eight outstanding grad students & postdocs selected for their innovative research, from institutions across the US and Canada. We'll welcome them to Cornell’s Ithaca campus Oct 13–14, 2025. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Exciting new research exploring dispersed thermal sensing and response, featured in the June "Plants & Heat" special issue of Science. Led by our own Roeder Lab postdoctoral associate Avilash Singh Yadav! @roederlab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out this awesome grassroots science communication campaign, the *McClintock Letters* led by Cornell students! www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

We are counting down the days to our Protein Science Symposium on June 10-12! Thrilled to be hosting our colleagues from WCM @weillcornell.bsky.social as well as keynote speakers Dr. Christopher Lima @christopherdlima.bsky.social and Dr. ‪Jin Zhang @jinzhanglab.bsky.social

Don't miss The Plant Cell May 2025 issue, edited by our Arabidopsis thaliana expert @roederlab.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

The 2025 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award goes to Professor Jeremy Baskin! Congrats to Jeremy & our other esteemed presenters for yesterday's great symposium! Jennifer Prescher, @jeremybaskin.bsky.social, Carsten Schultz, @chembiobryan.bsky.social, @sonjakrane.bsky.social, @pubs.acs.org

DR5 is a favorite auxin reporter. In @natcomms.nature.com we show DR5 expression is stochastic, exhibiting both intrinsic and extrinsic noise. We put two different color DR5 reporters in the same plant and see stochasticity. Congrats Shuyao Kong, Byron Rusnak, and Mingyuan Zhu rdcu.be/emNVQ

New preprint from the lab: ATM controls fork processing and restart, and the PPM1D phosphatase is needed to properly balance this action of ATM. Congratulations to @yitingcao.bsky.social @yingzhengwang.bsky.social and Jumana Badar. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 Join us on May 30 at 9 EDT, for a The Plant Cell panel discussion focusing on “Translational Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond".🌱 👉Learn more and register at blog.aspb.org/may-30-plant.... #plantscience

Cindy Liu, grad student in the Hu lab and winner of the 2025 Harry & Samuel Mann Award, explains her research on neurodegeneration. Cindy investigates the role of the protein TDP-43 in microglia, a type of brain cell. “I fell in love with TDP-43 the first time I heard about it.” shorturl.at/uG2BO

@roederlab.bsky.social is highlighted in this exciting interdisciplinary project!

What if solar panels could be both more effective and beautiful? Cornell researchers—led by Professor Jenny Sabin, Chair of the Department of Design Tech—are revolutionizing solar energy with HelioSkin: bit.ly/41vkTI9 @cornellaap.bsky.social @cornellcals.bsky.social @weillinstitute.bsky.social

🚨 Cornell Giving Day is here! 🚨 Support groundbreaking research at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology! Your gift today fuels life-changing science and innovation. 👉 Donate now: givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/we... #CornellGivingDay #WeillInstitute #SupportScience #MakeAnImpact

Applications are open for the Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium @ Cornell! Senior PhD students and, now, postdocs interested in networking & presenting their work in cell & molecular biology should apply by April 14, 2025. Please repost! wicmb.cornell.edu/emerging-sch...