Welcome to the Weiss Lab News!
Weiss lab lunch over spring break to say farewell to Dr. Elizabeth Moore! Best of luck at your post-doc in the Fischbach lab!
PhD student Irma Fernandez is featured by the Cornell Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Sirtuins’ connection to cancer is a big topic in life sciences research. What are they and why are they important to the hunt for cancer therapies? Read more about the work Irma in our lab here: https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/whats-all-talk-about-sirtuins
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Moore for her successful dissertation defense!
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 Dr. Elizabeth Moore for her second place finish for the prestigious 2018 Young Investigator Award (YIA) sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF).
Congratulations to Naomi for her successful poster presentation!
Congratulations to Irma Fernandez for passing her A-exam!
Congratulations to Darshil Patel on his successul PhD defense
Congratulations to Matthew Guo and Michael Downey on their first place prize at the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board Spring Forum for their poster “Roles of the Mammalian 9-1-1 DNA Damage Response Clamps in Meiotic Chromosome Maintenance.”
Darshil and Irma present at annual cancer symposium
