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The Moghe Lab uses AI, computational biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, synthetic biology and field-based approaches to address these questions about the more than a million metabolites produced by the 300,000 species of plants: How is this staggering diversity generated? What purpose do these metabolites serve, if any? How can we make use...

I am an agroecologist and conducts research on sustainable cropping systems. Over the next several decades, farmers need to adapt to increased climate variability, decrease their environmental impact, and feed billions of more people. Despite these challenges, it is an exciting time to be involved in agriculture, as more consumers want to know...

Professor Roger T. Trancik, FASLA, is an educator and practitioner of urban design. He has written three national award-winning books and has authored 45 professional urban design and planning studies, journal articles, and scholarly papers. He has also lectured extensively at universities and international conferences, and he has shown his work in...

Research Focus Because of intensive reliance on pesticide use for managing pests on greenhouse crops, arthropod resistance to pesticides has repeatedly left greenhouse growers with severe pest management challenges and few ready-to-use alternatives. Growers thus are actively seeking simple, cost-effective alternative solutions to pesticides. The...

Ian Hewson is a Biological Oceanographer and Marine Ecologist working on the impacts of viruses on marine ecosystem function. He obtained his B.Sc (Hons) in Botany from the University of Queensland in 1997, then his PhD in Marine Environmental Biology from the University of Southern California in 2005. He was a postdoctoral associate in the...

Charles ("Chip") Aquadro is the Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Population Genetics in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. He is also a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, and was the founding Director of the Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics from 2008 - 2025.

About Jeff Niederdeppe is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. He is a Founding Co-Director of the Collaborative on Media and Messaging (COMM) for Health and Social Policy and an Associate...

Waste Management Specialist and Director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute in Soil and Crop Sciences. I have spent over 25 years in education of composting food, manure, animal carcasses, and compost quality/use. My research includes the degradation of pharmaceuticals in mortality and manure and characterizing and developing beneficial uses...

Dennis Miller is Professor of Food Chemistry and Nutrition in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University. He holds a joint appointment in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and is a member of the graduate fields of Food Science and Technology and Nutrition. Miller earned a PhD in nutrition from Cornell, an MS in biochemistry from the...

I conduct a postharvest science research program with a major focus on apple fruit. My research and extension activities are statewide and include development and conduct of harvest maturity management, postharvest handling, and storage technology from both basic and applied aspects.