NEWS AND PICTURES

Welcome to the Weiss Lab News!

Congrats to Michelle on receiving a CVG Scholar Award!

The CVG Scholar Award is intended to recognize the genomics promise and exciting research goals of early stage trainees. With 26 applicants, the review was more competitive than ever before. Even with those odds, Michelle still received a top-3 score- congrats Michelle!

Check out our latest publications:

The Weiss lab teams with the Schroeder lab at Boyce Thompson Institute on a new paper linking sirtuins to the generation of acylspermidines that affect cell proliferation and longevity:
 
Bob and co-authors from the Malignant Germ Cell International Consortium (MaGIC) publish a commentary related to chemical exposures and testicular germ cell tumor occurrence in military servicemen:

Check out our newest preprint, as well as a collaborative study:

The Weiss lab contributes to a new collaborative study on nanoparticle oral delivery:

Kimaya and Victoria wrap up their summer research projects!

We sadly say goodbye to our two terrific summer students. Pictured below is Kimaya Bakhle, a VIP program participant and combined degree rotation student (jointly hosted with the Sethupathy lab).  Kimaya was recently awarded the prestigious 2023 Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Research Award for Veterinary Students, and presented her research at the Veterinary Scholars Symposium.

Pictured below is Victoria Lopez-Scarim, a participant in the Molecular Biology & Genetics REU program. She recently gave a wrap up presentation about her summer research project, in which she investigated the 9-1-1 complex in collaboration with Gerardo.

Thanks to the both of you for all of your hard work!

Congratulations Dr. Mullmann!

Many congratulations to James on his successful defense! Good luck in vet school, we can’t wait to see what your future holds!

Bob and Destiny visit Spelman College

Destiny and Bob visit Spelman College to participate in the Spelman Career Fair and give a research seminar to the Spelman Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program.

 

 

Congrats Gerardo on your NIH fellowship!

Many congratulations to Gerardo on his new NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship, awarded for his proposal on “ATR signaling activation by the 9-1-1 complexes during mammalian meiosis” !
 

Welcome Justin and Jorlane!

A warm welcome to the Weiss lab’s summer ’22 students, Justin and Jorlane!!

 

Justin is a 3rd year biology major with a minor in environmental sciences at Morehouse College, visiting for the MBG REU program. Jorlane is a Puerto Rican rising senior majoring in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, and is here as a UPR-Ponce/CVM exchange student.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations Tanmay!!

Congratulations to Tanmay for graduating with a Bachelor’s in Human Biology, Health, and Society (HBHS)! We wish you much luck in all of your future endeavors.

Building a Bridge between Benchside and Bedside: A reflection by Ravi Dhawan and coauthors

Cancer Researchers and Cancer Patients Communicating about Basic Science

Our collaborations have inspired us to translate the complexities of cancer research into accessible scientific narratives.

Read the full article here: https://cancercommunity.nature.com/documents/cancer-researchers-and-cancer-patients-communicating-about-basic-science-521d1eb4-1066-4e9e-92a6-1bea37062e1a

Congratulations, Irma Fernandez!

Irma Fernandez is selected as an Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Scholar!  This highly selective honor recognizes graduate students for outstanding scholarly achievement and efforts to promote diversity.

Undergraduate Grants

Ravi Dhawan is awarded a grant from the Dextra Undergraduate Research Endowment Fund, and Anabella Maria Galang is awarded a grant from the Ann S. and Robert R. Morley Student Research Fund. Congratulations!

James Mullmann awarded NIH F30 Fellowship

James Mullmann has been awarded an NIH F30 Fellowship for his project “Elucidating the tumor suppressive effects of the sirtuin, SIRT1, in triple-negative breast cancer.” Congratulations, James!

Weiss lab members, summer 2019

What a summer it’s been! This summer, we welcomed Suzin Webb as our new lab manager! We are so happy to have you. We also had three wonderful summer students: Carla Patricia Reyes-Flores, Natrine Cheuk, and Jamie Cockey. We are so glad to have had you in the lab this summer, and we look forward to hearing what great things you accomplish in the future!

Our lab attends the 23rd Annual Buffalo DNA Replication & Repair Symposium

Thank you to the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the conference organizers for a wonderful conference! Catalina, PhD candidate, presented a talk titled “9-1-1 DNA Damage Response Clamp Subunit RAD9A Promotes Checkpoint Signaling to Maintain Genomic Stability,” and Matthew and Michael, undergraduates, presented a poster titled “Multiple Mammalian 9-1-1 DNA Damage Response Complexes Are Important for Meiotic Chromosome Maintenance.”

The Weiss and Smolka labs have been awarded a collaborative NIH research grant!

Infertility and birth defects often arise due to improper genetic quality control during meiosis. We are working with Marcus Smolka’s lab in Molecular Biology and Genetics to resolve how the cellular DNA damage response ensures genetic quality control during meiosis and enables the efficient and accurate production of gametes. Read the article here: https://research.cornell.edu/research/genetic-quality-control-during-meiosis

Congratulations to Tim Pierpont for taking second place at the 2015 Cornell Stem Cell Symposium poster competition!

INVESTIGTATING HOW THE DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE AND STEM CELL PROPERTIES OF TESTICULAR GERM CELL CANCERS INFLUENCE CHEMOSENSITIVITY

Pierpont, Timothy M.1, Lyndaker, Amy M.1, Anderson, Claire M.1, Roden, Jamie L.1, Bagepalli , Lina1, Kataria, Nandita1, Braxon, Alicia1 , Hu, Hilary1, Garness, Jason2, Cook, Matthew S.2, Capel, Blanche2, Schlafer, Donald H.1, Southard, Teresa1, and Weiss, Robert S1.

1Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA and 2Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Congratulations to Pei Xin Lim and co-authors!

Congratulations to Pei Xin Lim and co-authors on acceptance of their manuscript: “Genome Protection by the 9-1-1 Complex Subunit HUS1 Requires Clamp Formation, DNA Contacts, and ATR Signaling-Independent Effector Functions” for publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

2014 Clinical Investigators’ Day Award

Congratulations to Elizabeth Moore for winning best overall presentation at Cornell’s 2014 clinical investigators’ day!
Title of presentation: Protection Against Dietary Fat-Induced DNA Damage by the Fanconi Anemia Pathway
Skip to toolbar