- Maintain an active literature search for papers related to your project(s) and read continually
- Participate in weekly lab meetings
- Prepare for your one-on-one meeting with me: take the lead and come to the meeting with your own agenda for what you hope to accomplish
- Increase your independence as you progress in your program and prepare for your next career step, including: developing your research ideas; interpret results; write up manuscript draft for me to review and revise
- Mentor an undergraduate student
- Apply for pre-doctoral fellowship and/or conference travel scholarship
- Seek for professional career development opportunity
- Time and effort distribution Pre-candidacy: 50% research, 40% coursework, 5% career development, 5% service
- Time and effort distribution Post-candidacy: 75% research, 10% career development, 10% service, 5% coursework
The successful graduate student will participate in collaborative projects and execute basic research on genomic and epigenetic regulation in early embryonic development. The research areas include but are not limited to studying the molecular mechanism of environmental impacts on epigenetic regulation and the parental effects of embryonic development. Through these projects, the candidate will acquire strong technical expertise in advanced functional genomics research, bioinformatics, statistics, and next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis. Further training opportunities will be provided to develop a wide array of professional and personal skills, including mentorship, scientific writing, project management, science communication, and career development. Stipend and tuition funding are also available on a competitive basis within the Department of Animal Science.
The successful candidate will follow the application process of Cornell University and the Department of Animal Science requirements and guidelines:
Cornell University: https://gradschool.cornell.edu/
College of Agriculture and Life Science: https://cals.cornell.edu/
Animal Science: https://ansci.cals.cornell.edu/graduate/