March 2024
Congratulations to Ariana Taboada for accepting the offer to join the Pathobiology Ph.D. program at Brown University! Ariana also received offers for Ph.D. programs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Pittsburg.
We also welcome Nina Mitin to our lab as an undergraduate research student!
Congratulations to Jiacheng (Peter) Xu and Mandi Kurtz for receiving the undergraduate Ann S. and Robert S. Morley Student Research Award!
Jan 2024
Congratulations to Justine Galliou for passing her A exam!
Also, check out our paper in PNAS featured at Cornell Chronicle and PNAS Kudos.
Aug 2023
Welcome Yu-Hsiang Liao to our lab as a new Ph.D. student!
Dec 2022
Congratulations to Ariana Taboada for receiving the undergraduate Ann S. and Robert S. Morley Student Research Award!
Sept 2022
Congratulations to Hannah (Hanxue) Zhang for passing her A Exam!
May 2022
Congratulations to Sam for graduating with honors in research! She will relocate to New Heaven to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Molecular and Celllar Biology at Yale in August.
April 2022
Congratulations to Rebecca Litvinsky (undergraduate research student) for winning the Alan D. Mathios Research Grant!
Feb 2022
We are so excited for Samantha Greenspun! Sam has received four offers to attend PhD program at: Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley; Molecular Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology at Yale University; Cellar and Molecular Biology at Duke University; and Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. We will find out soon where she decides to go!
Feb 2022
Athena won one of this year’s two Schwartz Awards.
Jan 2022
Congratulations to Sunny Levitis for being admitted to Cornell Vet School!
Dec 2021
Congratulations to Sam Greenspun (undergraduate research student) for presenting her research entitled “Doppler Ultrasonography Characterizes Hemodynamics and Blood Vessel Properties in Preovulatory Ovaries of Mice” at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction in St. Louis.
Aug 2021
Welcome Justine Galliou to our lab as a new Ph.D. student!
Dec 2020
Congratulations to Sunny Levitis for receiving the undergraduate Ann S. and Robert S. Morley Student Research Award!
July 2020
The renovation of our lab space on the second floor of Morrison Hall has been completed. We now have a brand new lab to work in.
April 2020
CALS Periodicals- Faculty Spotlight Dr. Yi Athena Ren.
March 2020
Congratulations to Sam Greenspun for receiving the undergraduate Dextra Research Endowment Fund and CALS Alumni research grant!
Nov 2019
CALS Meet Our New Faculty- An interview of Dr. Yi Athena Ren.
Aug 2019
With the beginning of the fall semester, 2019, our lab officially opened for business. Welcome our founding members Nicholas Jividen, Hanxue (Hannah) Zhang, and Samantha Greenspun!