Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology

How cells handle stress can shape diseases like cancer and neurodegeneration. Cornell researchers uncovered a new protein interaction that keeps the cell’s recycling system in balance, revealing clues that could inform future therapies.

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📣 Weill Institute Research Spotlight 🔬 ⚙️ 🧬

Baskin lab: New SHKBP1–p62 interaction helps balance cellular recycling

Crane lab: Calcium “gate” controls nitric oxide production

Yu lab: Promoters & enhancers share unified regulatory logic

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🌟 Join our team! 🌟

We have several openings available for Postdoctoral Associates (Neurodegeneration, Organelle Quality Control & Immunity, Polyploidy, Computational) as well as Research Technician positions!

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See all of our opportunities here: wicmb.cornell.edu/join-our-team/

Adrienne Roeder and her love of visualizing plant development — Arabidopsis Community as supported by NAASC Vincent Cerbantez-Bueno, elected as a NAASC Early Career Scholar in 2024, interviews former NAASC faculty member Adrienne Roeder about her career: her background and personal journey to becoming a pla...

Thanks Vincent E. Cerbantez-Bueno for a great conversation. @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

Negin Majedi delivering a fantastic kick-off presentation on the #mechanobiology of cancer immune engineering as part of the new #MechanobiologyHub seminar series hosted by the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University.

Weill Institute is recruiting postdocs, please share!

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Hu Lab: lnkd.in/epsGK7wd

Weill Institute welcomes Tara Fischer as newest research member | Cornell Chronicle Fischer investigates how cells detect and repair organelle damage, and how these processes influence inflammation and the progression of neurodegenerative disease.

We are absolutely THRILLED to welcome our newest faculty member @tarafisch.bsky.social to the @weillinstitute.bsky.social community. We look forward to the exciting and impactful work ahead!

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Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology awards 2025 Fleming Fellowship | Cornell Chronicle For research excellence into how living structures recover and preserve order in morphology amid constant disruption, postdoctoral scientist Lanxi Hu has been awarded the Weill Institute for Cell and ...

👏 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...

Randomness reveals hidden order in the plant world | Cornell Chronicle Findings from a recent study show how randomness and growth together create the striking cellular patterns that shape plant organs—and perhaps all multicellular life.

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...

New biosensor technology maps enzyme mystery inside cells | Cornell Chronicle Cornell researchers have developed a powerful new biosensor that reveals, in unprecedented detail, how and where kinases – enzymes that control nearly all cellular processes – turn on and off inside l...

@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...

Roeder lab door decorated for Halloween

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

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

Cornell team finds new way to cut cancer’s lipid lifeline | Cornell Chronicle Researchers at Cornell have uncovered molecules that can preserve crucial cellular processes while blocking malignant proteins, indicating a new approach to fighting cancer

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

Weill Institute to host 8th biennial symposium, Oct. 13–14 | Cornell Chronicle The Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology will bring together leading scientists from across the globe and across disciplines for its 8th Biennial Weill Institute Symposium, Oct. 13–14. The t...

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. 🌱🧬
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Nobel-winning biochemist to speak on the origins of life | Cornell Chronicle Jack Szostak, Ph.D. ’77, will return to campus to give the 2025 Ef Racker Lecture on Oct. 9.

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!
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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.
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Emr wins the World Laureate Association Prize | Cornell Chronicle Scott Emr, the Samuel C. and Nancy M. Fleming Professor Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, has won the World Laureate Association Prize, one of the world’s highest-funded scientific awards.

🌟 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. 🌟

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

‘Three-tailed’ lipid helps cells survive during heart attack, stroke | Cornell Chronicle Cornell 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...

@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...

Cornell biologists expose bacteria’s hidden Achilles’ heel | Cornell Chronicle Helping to combat the rising threat of antibiotic resistance, Cornell biologists have identified a surprising mechanism that weakens bacteria from within—an insight that could guide the next generatio...

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...

Plant cell wall mechanics inform how to grow usable forms | Cornell Chronicle Cornell scientists work toward engineering plants and other organisms to grow into usable, biodegradable forms.

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

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ONO INITIATIVE 2025 AWARDEES ANNOUNCED The Ono Pharma Foundation was established to support academic research in relevant scientific fields, which have the potential of making significant impact on therapeutic approaches to disease and pai...

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
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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.
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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/...

NSF, NIH Funding Cuts Spur Student-Led Science Communication Campaign In the wake of funding cuts from the Trump administration, Cornell University students and early career researchers are turning to local media to make their voices heard.

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