People | The Alani Lab

Principal Investigator

Professor Eric Alani

I am a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG) at Cornell University and am a member of the Graduate Field of Genetics, Genomics and Development and the Graduate Field of Biochemistry, Molecular and Ce

ll Biology. I completed a Sci. B. in Life Sciences at MIT, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University with Nancy Kleckner, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School with Richard Kolodner. My lab studies roles for DNA mismatch repair proteins in maintaining genome stability.

I care deeply about contributing to the scientific community and have mentored many graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and undergraduate students. I served on the editorial board of GENETICS, co-organized several international chromosome stability research conferences, and recently completed my term on the program committee for the biennial GSA Yeast Genetics Meeting. In my department I taught for many years a course in advanced genetics and am currently teaching a course on DNA biology. As an NIH Training Grant Director in Genetics and Development I started a graduate student mentoring committee and a summer REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program, which I currently participate in.

Email- eea3@cornell.edu

Office 459, Biotechnology Building