About CALS
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is a pioneer of purpose-driven science and Cornell University’s second largest college. We work across disciplines to tackle the challenges of our time through world-renowned research, education and outreach. The questions we probe and the answers we seek focus on three overlapping concerns: natural and human systems; food, energy and environmental resources; and social, physical and economic well-being. The Cornell CALS experience empowers us to explore the boundaries of knowledge, supported by the leading minds of today and surrounded by the leading minds of tomorrow.
News and Announcements
Larissa Osterbaan: unraveling the genetic mysteries of grapevine disease
A fresh look at China’s energy policy shows mixed results
New grant program funds novel conservation collaborations
Events
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Feb 18 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
"Sorbitol signaling and flower development and pollen tube growth in apples" - Lailiang Cheng
Feb 18 | 12:20 pm
Lailiang Cheng ...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Feb 19 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
“Groundcherry and Goldenberry improvement: ripening the potential of underutilized fruit crops”- Joyce Van Eck
Feb 19 | 12:20 pm
Joyce Van Eck...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Feb 20 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
"Fusarium graminearum ecology at the intersection of wheat and wild grass communities" - Michael Fulcher
Feb 20 | 12:20 pm
Michael Fulcher ...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Feb 21 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
“Developing an information ecology for cover crops”: Steven Mirsky
Feb 21 | 12:20 pm
Steven Mirsky Research Ecologist USDA ARS, Maryland https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/person/?person-id=42691
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Nick Ruktanonochai [University of Southampton]: Anthropophilic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Quantifying host movement for vector borne disease control on complex landscapes. Hosts: Ellne
Feb 21 | 2:30 pm
Dr. Nick Ruktanonochai, Univ. Southampton: Anthropophilic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Quantifying host movement for vector borne disease control on complex landscapes, 2:30-3:30p; Corson-Mudd, A106
Location: Corson/Mudd Hall | Event type: Seminar
Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators
Feb 21 | 4:00 pm
In a Chats in the Stacks book talk Anne K. Armstrong, Doctoral Student in Natural Resources, will present her new book, co-authored with Marianne E. Krasny, Professor in the Department of Natural...
Location: Mann Library | Event type: Author Appearance
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Feb 22 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
"Ironing out the issues: Elucidating iron homeostasis regulatory processes in plants" - Terri Long
Feb 22 | 12:20 pm
Terri Long...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Feb 25 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Feb 26 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
SIPS SYMPOSIUM: “A feeling for the organism” - Susan McCouch
Feb 26 | 2:00 pm
Susan McCouch...
Location: Bradfield Hall | Event type: Seminar
B.E.V. NY: Business, Enology, Viticulture
Feb 27 | 8:00 am
B.E.V. NY is the annual grape and wine conference presented by Cornell's Finger Lakes Grape Program and the Enology Extension Laboratory. The conference consists of three days of programming, each...
Location: RIT Inn and Conference Center | Event type: Conference/Workshop
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Feb 27 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Feb 28 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
What is the potential for increased grazing, hay, forage, and livestock production on idel lands in New York State? - Peter Woodbury, Aaron Gabriel & Michael Baker
Feb 28 | 12:20 pm
Peter Woodbury, Aaron Gabriel & Michael Baker...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Graziella DiRenzo [UC-Santa Barbara]: Title: TBA. Host: Vitousek, Co-host: Power
Feb 28 | 2:30 pm
Dr. Graziella DiRenzo, UC-Santa Barbara: Using integrative Bayesian approaches to examine ecological and evolutionary influences on disease dynamics, 2:30-3:30p; Corson-Mudd Hall, A106
Location: Corson/Mudd Hall | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Mar 1 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
"College in prison: the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) and a different perspective on extension" - Tom Owens
Mar 1 | 12:20 pm
Tom Owens...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Mar 4 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
"The Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering (GLASE) consortium" - Neil Mattson
Mar 4 | 12:20 pm
Neil Mattson...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Michael Cortez [Utah State University]: How Does Interspecific Host Competition Alter the Amplification and Dilution of Disease? Host: Zamudio, co-host: Tyrell
Mar 4 | 12:20 pm
Dr. Michael Cortez, Utah State: How Does Interspecific Host Competition Alter the Amplification and Dilution of Disease?, 12:20-1:20p; Corson-Mudd Hall, A106
Location: Corson/Mudd Hall | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Mar 5 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
"Sugar Beet- advanced breeding for a highly profitable niche crop" - Jens Lein
Mar 5 | 12:20 pm
Jens Lein KWS, France Jens Lein is the Head Molecular Breeder at KWS. He did his graduate Agricultural Engineer training at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel from 1996-2006.
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Mar 6 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
"Population biology of emerging fungal pathogens of plants and people" - Marin Brewer
Mar 6 | 12:20 pm
Marin Brewer...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Mar 7 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
The Scalability of Ecological Farming Practices in the United States - Jeff Liebert
Mar 7 | 12:20 pm
Jeff Liebert...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
Exhibition - Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text
Mar 8 | 9:00 am
How do you write a sound? How do you hear a text? “Mixed Media” examines how representations of text and sound that have shaped our perceptions of the material world, tracing the technologies used...
Location: Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library | Event type: Exhibit
“Plant response to global warming 56 million years ago” - Scott Wing
Mar 8 | 12:20 pm
Scott Wing...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
"Reusable black tarps suppress weeds and make organic reduced tillage more viable" - Haley Rylander
Mar 11 | 12:20 pm
Haley Rylander Horticulture, Cornell University Haley Rylander is a graduate student and MS Candidate in the Horticulture Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science.
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Megan Greischar [University of Toronto]: The Impact of Ecology Across Scales On Parasite Life History. Host: Lazzaro, Co-host: Miojevic
Mar 11 | 12:20 pm
Dr. Megan Greischar, Univ. Toronto: The Impact of Ecology Across Scales On Parasite Life History, 12:20-1:20p; Corson-Mudd Hall, A106
Location: Corson/Mudd Hall | Event type: Seminar
“GM crops as catalysts for global development“ - Peter Gregory
Mar 12 | 12:20 pm
Peter Gregory...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
"Will the real Phytophthora infestans please make itself known?" - Bill Fry
Mar 13 | 12:20 pm
Bill Fry...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
SCS Seminar - Stewart Diemont
Mar 14 | 12:20 pm
Diemont, Stewart, Associate Professor, SUNY ESF, Syracuse...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
“The plant membrane-on-a-chip” - Susan Daniel
Mar 15 | 12:20 pm
Susan Daniel...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Beer Microbiology
Mar 16 | 8:00 am
The Cornell Brewing Extension Lab is offering a Beer Microbiology short course providing in depth learning materials and hands-on training for yeast management and microbiological quality control...
Location: Cornell AgriTech | Event type: Conference/Workshop
"The use of mycorrhizal fungi in horticulture" - Jozsef Racsko
Mar 18 | 12:20 pm
Jozsef Racsko...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
"Uncovering the genetic basis of seed's amino acid regulation using multi-omics approaches" - Ruthie Angelovici
Mar 19 | 12:20 pm
Ruthie Angelovici...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
"The evolution of the plant immune system" - Ksenia Krasileva
Mar 20 | 12:20 pm
Ksenia Krasileva...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Water Trapping Dynamics in Carbohydrate-Doped Smectite Nanopores - Sabrina Kelch
Mar 21 | 12:20 pm
Sabrina Kelch...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
"Spatiotemporal regulation of hormone signaling controls the developmental robustness of plant organs" - Mingyuan Zhu
Mar 22 | 12:20 pm
Mingyuan Zhu...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton [UC-Los Angeles]: Evolution in the Anthropocene: Selection and adaptation to human-mediated change in Anolis lizards. Host: GSA Symposi
Mar 25 | 12:20 pm
Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton, UC-Los Angeles: Evolution in the Anthropocene: Selection and adaptation to human-mediated change in Anolis lizards, 12:20-1:20p; Corson-Mudd Hall, A106
Location: Corson/Mudd Hall | Event type: Seminar
“How the strawberry became America’s most unsustainable fruit”- Marvin Pritts
Mar 25 | 12:20 pm
Marvin Pritts...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
"Separating genes from gene-like sequences in maize and sorghum" - James Schnable
Mar 26 | 12:20 pm
James Schnable...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
Distinguished speaker in Genome Biology: “Epigenomics of Neuron Diversity and Connectivity in the Mammalian Brain” - Joe Ecker
Mar 27 | 12:20 pm
Joe Ecker...
Location: Biotechnology Building | Event type: Seminar
SCS Seminar - Ken Zuckerberg
Mar 28 | 12:20 pm
Kenneth Scott Zuckerberg Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Bank New York, New York
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
"Genetic diversity underlying evolutionary patterns of plant adaption: A multi scaled approach" - Jacob Landis
Mar 29 | 12:20 pm
Jacob Landis...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
"1969-2019, 50 years of breeding the Geneva® series of apple rootstocks" - Gennaro Fazio
Apr 8 | 12:20 pm
Gennaro Fazio...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Susanna Remold [University of Louisville]: The biogeography of household Pseudomonas. Host: Alison Power
Apr 8 | 12:20 pm
Dr. Susanna Remold, Univ. Louisville: The biogeography of household Pseudomonas, 12:20-1:20p; Corson-Mudd Hall, A106
Location: Corson/Mudd Hall | Event type: Seminar
Distinguished speaker in Genome Biology: "Systematic discovery of gene regulatory elements using chromatic structure in plant genomes" - Robert Schmitz
Apr 9 | 12:20 pm
Robert Schmitz ...
Location: College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University | Event type: Seminar
“Digitization and data sharing of fungal specimen metadata through the MyCoPortal “ - Andrew Miller
Apr 10 | 12:20 pm
Andrew Miller...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
"Soil health in the Indo-Gangetic Plain" - Kavya Krishnan
Apr 11 | 12:20 pm
Kavya Krishnan...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
“Molecular mechanisms underlying ambient temperature control of flowering time in Arabidopsis” - Richard Immink
Apr 12 | 12:20 pm
Richard Immink ...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
“Environmental and molecular control of flowering and vegetative propagation in tulip”- Richard Immink
Apr 15 | 12:20 pm
Richard Immink ...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Mina Bissell [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]: Why Don't We Get More Cancer: The cristical role of extracellular matrix and microenvironment in malignancy and dormany? Hosts: Fischb
Apr 15 | 4:00 pm
Dr. Mina Bissell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Why Don't We Get More Cancer: The cristical role of extracellular matrix and microenvironment in malignancy and dormany?, 4:00-5:00p;...
Location: College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University | Event type: Seminar
Distinguished speaker in Genome Biology: “Mechanisms of selective gene silencing“- Craig Pikaard
Apr 16 | 12:20 pm
Craig Pikaard...
Location: College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University | Event type: Seminar
“Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Morphogenesis“ - Enrico Coen
Apr 17 | 12:20 pm
Enrico Coen...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
"Functional elucidation of Vapyrin, a novel plant protein required for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis" - Penelope Lindsay
Apr 19 | 12:20 pm
Penelope Lindsay Plant Biology, Cornell University Penelope Lindsay is a graduate student in the Plant Biology section and works at the Harrison Lab.
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
"Understanding and preventing spring freeze damage in grapevines" - Michela Centinari
Apr 22 | 12:20 pm
Michela Centinari...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Erin Larson [Cornell]: Title TBA, Host: Alex Flecker
Apr 22 | 12:20 pm
Erin Larson, Cornell, Title: TBA, 12:20-1:20p; Corson-Mudd Hall, A106
Location: Corson/Mudd Hall | Event type: Seminar
"Celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Maize Genetics Corporation news letter at Cornell University" - Lee Kass
Apr 23 | 12:20 pm
Lee Kass...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
"Four decades of probing plant-pathogen interactions: From pieces to the rules of the game" - Alan Collmer
Apr 24 | 12:20 pm
Alan Collmer...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Tracing nitrate transformations in forest soils - Ariel Mollhagen
Apr 25 | 12:20 pm
Ariel Mollhagen...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
“Ecological genomics of transposable elements across space and time and base pairs“ - Jeff Ross-Ibarra
Apr 26 | 12:20 pm
Jeff Ross-Ibarra ...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Better Process Control School
Apr 29 | 8:00 am
New York State Food Venture Center, Department of Food Science - Cornell University, Cornell Cooperative Extension, GMA Science and Education Foundation, Associated New York State Food Processors,...
Location: Cornell AgriTech | Event type: Conference/Workshop
"Shedding light on tree shape: the role of IGT genes in plant growth orientation": Chris Dardick
Apr 29 | 12:20 pm
Chris Dardick...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
BTI PGS: "Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development" - Dominique Bergmann
Apr 29 | 12:20 pm
Dominique Bergmann...
Location: Boyce Thompson Institute | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Brendan Bohannan [University of Oregon]: The Ecology and Evolution of Host-Associated Microbiomes. Hosts: Douglas (Ent), Brito (BME), Ellner (EEB)
Apr 29 | 4:30 pm
Dr. Brendan Bohannan, Univ. Oregon: The Ecology and Evolution of Host-Associated Microbiomes, 4:30-5:30p; G10 Biotechnology Building
Location: Biotechnology Building | Event type: Seminar
"Exploring the evolutionary history of the Cochliobolus heterostrophus Tox1 locus responsible for T-toxin production and the Southern Corn Leaf Blight Epidemic of 1970" - Jon Gonzalez
May 1 | 12:20 pm
Jon Gonzalez...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
An overview of agriculture in Brazil and Brazilian Amazonia, and perspectives for agroecosystem resilience and sustainability- Troy Beldini
May 2 | 12:20 pm
Troy Beldini...
Location: Emerson Hall | Event type: Seminar
Distinguished speaker in Genome Biology - Rob Martienssen
May 3 | 12:20 pm
Rob Martienssen...
Location: Biotechnology Building | Event type: Seminar
Cider & Perry Production - A Foundation
May 6 | 8:00 am
Do you want to gain a broad understanding of cider & perry and acquire the main skills & knowledge necessary to make quality products? Then this is the class to attend!...
Location: Cornell AgriTech | Event type: Conference/Workshop
"Non-destructive prediction of apple fruit quality by means of near-infrared spectroscopy" - Yiyi Zhang
May 6 | 12:20 pm
Yiyi Zhang Horticulture, Cornell University Yiyi Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science.
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Dolph Schluter [University of British Columbia]: Divergence via biotic interactions in an adaptive radiation. Host: Anurag Agrawal
May 6 | 12:20 pm
Dr. Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia: Divergence via biotic interactions in an adaptive radiation, 12:20-1:20p; G10 Biotechnology Building
Location: Biotechnology Building
"Molecular epidemiology and host range of potato virus Y" - Sarah Johnson Ruark
May 8 | 12:20 pm
Sarah Johnson Ruark...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Dr. Simon Levin [Princeton University]: Systemic Risk and Systemic Opportunity: Alternative Realities in Social and Ecological Systems. Host: Jeremy Searle
May 8 | 12:20 pm
Dr. Simon Levin, Princeton: Systemic Risk and Systemic Opportunity: Alternative Realities in Social and Ecological Systems, *Wednesday* 12:20-1:20p; Corson-Mudd Hall, A106
Location: Corson/Mudd Hall | Event type: Seminar
“Genetic and genomic analyses of cuticle development and bulliform cell patterning in maize “ - Pengfei Qiao
May 10 | 12:20 pm
Pengfei Qiao Graduate student in Scanlon Lab Exit Seminar “Genetic and genomic analyses of cuticle development and bulliform cell patterning in maize “
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series featuring Michelle Wong [Cornell]: Title TBA. Host: Robert Howarth
May 13 | 12:20 pm
Michelle Wong, Cornell, Title: TBA, 12:20-1:20p; Corson-Mudd Hall, A106
Location: Corson/Mudd Hall | Event type: Seminar
"Molecular characterization of bacterial speck disease resistance from S. lycopersicoides against race 1 strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato" - Carolina Mazo Molina
May 15 | 12:20 pm
Carolina Mazo Molina...
Location: Plant Science Building | Event type: Seminar