Molecular Biology and Genetics hosts a weekly seminar during the academic year, usually on Fridays at 4:00 p.m. in G10 Biotechnology Building. The seminar features a talk from a prominent scientist. Any deviations from our usual time, place, and location will be noted below.

Please email mbg-admin [at] cornell.edu (mbg-admin[at]cornell[dot]edu) at least 1 week in advance if you require accommodations to attend the event.

Our department sends out a weekly email that includes detailed information about that week's speaker, including a flyer. If you would like to join that mailing list please email mbg-admin [at] cornell.edu

August 16
Fei Li, Associate Professor,Biology, New York University 

August 30

Jason Cantor, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

September 6
Yasir Hashim Ahmed-Braimah, Assistant Professor, Biology, Syracuse University 

September 13
Haian Fu, Professor, Pharmocology and Chemical Biology, Emory University 

September 16

Alyson Ashe, Associate Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney

September 20

Eyleen O'Rourke, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Virginia

September 27
Lucas Argueso, Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado University 

October 3 and 4, Racker Lecture 
Peter Kim

October 11
Ursula Jakob, Professor, Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan

October 18
Zixu Mao, Professor, Pharmacology and Chem Biology, Emory University

October 25
Eric Baehrecke, Professor, Molecular Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts

November 1
Meera Sundaram, Professor, Genetics, University of Pennsylvania

November 8
Li Zhao, Associate Professor, Rockefeller University 

November 15
Fen-Biao Gao, Professor, UMass

November 22
Alberto Ciccia, Associate Professor, Genetics and Development, Columbia University 

January 10

Jiefu Li, Group Leader, HHMI Janelia Research Campus

January 24

Mike Levine, Princeton University 

February 7

Mo Motamedi, Harvard Medical School

February 28

Shaun Mahony, PennState Eberly College of Science 

March 7
Lee Kraus, Professor, UT Southwestern 

March 14

Catherine Pei-ju Lu, NYU

April 4
Anne West, Professor, Neurobiology and Cell Biology, Duke 

April 18

Maureen Barr, Rutgers

April 25
Marina Picciotto, Professor, Yale

May 2

Rachel Green, SUMNER LECTURE

May 9

Mary Munson, Professor, UMass

May 16

Luisa Cochella, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins