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News & Events

News

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Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Michael Charles
Academic focus: Computational and community-based sustainable solutions. Research summary: Broadly, I explore how computational models can help communities achieve their envisioned futures. My research is centered on designing sustainable...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Computational Biology
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News

Poor in vivo validation may cause inaccurate infertility diagnoses

A new study testing the accuracy of existing methods used to predict the genetic variation that cause infertility found that relying on computational or in vitro experiments alone is insufficient.

  • Computational Biology
  • Biology
  • Genetics
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Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Shaila Musharoff
Shaila Musharoff was hired as part of the CALS Cohort Initiative and the Cornell NIH FIRST Cohort . Academic focus: Statistical and population genetics Research summary: My lab studies how human disease is shaped by genetic and environmental...
  • Computational Biology
  • Genetics
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Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Andrew Hein
Academic focus: Computational ecology and behavior. Research summary: My lab studies how organisms generate behavior during ecological interactions – for example, when competing with other organisms for food, pursuing and capturing prey...
  • Computational Biology
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News

Fish story: Animals adjust reactions to misinformation

Fish can adjust their sensitivity to the actions of others – such as fleeing due to a false alarm – in order to reduce the risk of responding to misinformation, according to a new study.

  • Computational Biology
  • Behavior
  • Biology

Graduate Highlights

Scholarship

NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship

Congratulations to Michael Wang! Michael receives the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral.

Program

Student Led Ventures

Nathan Oakes, co-founder of Combplex and Cornell Comp Bio grad student, selected for the inaugural Blackstone Launchpad Lift Cohort. A 10-week mentorship-driven program for student-led ventures, which comes with a $10K grant. Kudos Nathan!

Award

"Best Poster Award"

Kudos to Runxi Shen, Computational Biology graduate student in the Messer Lab, for winning the "Best Poster Award" at the Great Lakes Evolutionary Genetics Symposium on May 31, 2019.

Award

Rita and Joe Calvo Teaching Assistant Award

Congratulations to Manisha Munasinghe as the recipient of the Rita and Joe Calvo Teaching Assistant Award. An award provided to her from the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics.

Award

Outstanding CALS Graduate Teaching Assistant

Congratulations to Shayne Wierbowski as the recipient of the 2019 Outstanding CALS Graduate Teaching Assistant award! (pictured here with Department of Comp Bio chair, Prof. Andy Clark).

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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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Members of the Clark Lab gather for a lab meeting with lab leader, Andrew Clark, professor in the Department of Computational Biology. Credit: Allison Usavage