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News & Events

Graduate Highlights

Award

2025-2026 CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant

Congratulations to Katalin Voss! Kat received the CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Fellowship

Luxembourg National Research Fund Fellowship

Marie Hedo receives fellowship through Luxembourg National Research Fund's AFR Individual 2025 Call. Bravo, Marie!

Award

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Kudos to Amanda Sun, Computational Biology graduate student in the Enbody Lab, for receiving a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

Award

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Congratulations to Jaclyn Liquori of the Musharoff Lab! Jaclyn receives a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

Award

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Kudos to Hein Lab's Katya Kouakova, who received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

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Marie Hedo
Amanda Sun
Jaclyn Liquori
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Faculty Highlights

Award

SMBE Mid-Career Excellence Award

Dr. Pennell receives this year's Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution Mid-Career Excellence Award. Congratulations, Matt!

Award

Neuroscience Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring

Kudos to Dr. Kuceyeski! Amy received Weill Cornell Medicine's award in Neuroscience Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring.

Research

Hein Lab Publishes New Research

The Hein Lab publishes "A brief natural history of misinformation" in The Royal Society.  

Research

Two New Publications from Dr. Kuceyeski

Two recent publications from Dr. Kuceyeski profiled by Weill Cornell's Impact Magazine and WCM's Newsroom.

Research

Enbody Lab Performs Research in the Galápagos

Erik Enbody and members of his lab traveled to the Galápagos this summer for research.

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Erik Enbody in Galapagos

Seminar Series

The Department of Computational Biology holds seminars throughout the year to discuss topics related to the field.

Seminar Series
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Department News

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News

Sea change: WildFin aims to improve fish behavior analysis in the wild

A doctoral student and a team of Cornell researchers and colleagues created WildFin, a data set composed of nine hours of video that they labeled frame-by-frame with fish behaviors.

  • Computational Biology
  • Animals
  • Fish
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News

Study reveals how echo chambers form and what prevents them

Study reveals how a few very general constraints can lead to echo chambers – self-reinforcing feedback loops – in biological systems such as birds in a flock, cells in tissue or ants in a swarm.

  • Computational Biology
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News

Deep connections drive psychedelic research

  • Computational Biology
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News

Seed banks may complicate gene drives aimed at controlling weeds

While gene drives have great potential for controlling weeds, seed banks can foil their efforts.

  • Computational Biology
  • Plants