Congratulations to Yining!

Our MPH student Yining Sun won the 2022 Bicknese Family Prize for her work on virus discovery. The award supports a woman scientist-in-training during a key point in her career development. We are now pleased to announce that she will be continuing her studies at Cornell in the BBS PhD Program in Fall 2023!

2022 summer student project roundup

Gayatri Anil is a dual DVM/PhD student who participated in the Cornell Veterinary Investigators Program. Gayatri worked on development of a diagnostic PCR assay for Salmonella Dublin, an emerging threat to animal and public health. In this picture, she’s teaching other summer students about real-time PCR.

Amy Richardson is a DVM student who participated in the Veterinary Leadership Program. Amy studied the cutaneous microbiome of northern elephant seals and compared skin swabs of healthy and alopecia-affected sites.