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For the first time, scientists have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of bacteria that live in anglerfish bulbs from fish specimens collected in the Gulf of Mexico.  Read more

Visiting students from hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico honed their science skills by shadowing and working in laboratories across campus this semester. Read more

Engaged Graduate Student Grants will support 21 Cornell doctoral students, six of which are CALS, and their community partners researching a range of topics.  Read more

Visiting students from the University of Puerto Rico worked in laboratories this past semester thanks to an opportunity from the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board’s (CURB) mentorship program. Read more

Assistant professors Ilana Brito, Michael Niemack and Marcos Simoes-Costa are among 50 scientists under the age of 40 named Young Scientists 2018 by the World Economic Forum. Read more

A new study by Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine scientists unveils a novel approach to vaccine development in the fight against tuberculosis, illustrating how certain host cells are able to either control or promote the growth of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacterium. Read more

Scientists represented Cornell at the annual USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., April 7-8. Read more

BacterioFiles
Certain transposons, genetic elements that move around the genome on their own, have co-opted the bacterial immune system, CRISPR, to use for jumping to new hosts! Read more

Cornell CALS scientists are beginning to unravel the complicated connections between viruses, the environment and wasting diseases among sea stars in the waters of the Pacific Northwest. Read more

Madsen was a leading researcher of microbial processes in natural environments whose research and teaching career at Cornell spanned nearly four decades. Read more

A study describes for the first time evidence of "jumping genes" adopting a bacterial immune mechanism for transferring genetic material between bacteria and across bacterial species. Read more

David B. Wilson, professor of molecular biology and genetics and a world leader in the field of enzymology, died April 29. He was 77. Read more

Since the summer of 2013, millions of sea stars have died along the west coast of North America, but are scientist any closer to finding the cause? Read more

Hydrogen peroxide detoxification is a key mechanism for growth of ammonia-oxidizing archaea. Read more

To honor a Cornell researcher who keeps our food supply safe, a recently discovered spoilage bacterium has been named for Martin Wiedmann. Read more

Bacillus cereus can no longer hide. The food safety world now has a new tool to find foodborne illness – the bacteria's own whole genome, reports Cornell food scientists. Read more

A new study of the distribution in North American soils of Streptyomyces, a genus of bacteria is the source of 80 percent of antibiotics, finds it corresponds with latitude. Read more

A Cornell-led study published May 11 in the journal Cell Host Microbe provides the strongest evidence yet that human DNA influences the type and number of bacteria that reside in each person’s gut. Read more

Helmann Lab publish in Molecular Microbiology Read more

Brent Gudenkauf and Ian Hewson publish article in Frontiers in Marine Science "Comparative Metagenomics of Viral Assemblages Inhabiting Four Phyla of Marine Invertebrates. Read more

Sea star wasting disease is the largest marine disease event ever seen Read more

Biology major James Eaglesham '15 is heading to Cambridge University as the Cornell’s newest Churchill scholar. He is one of 14 students nationwide to receive this honor and Cornell’s 21st Churchill scholar since 1975. Read more

Researchers have identified a new virus that as the culprit in a massive die off of sea stars native to the Pacific coast of North America. Read more

Susan Merkel will be presented the 2015 Carski Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award at the ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana in May 2015.

Work in Ruth Ley and Anthony Hay laboratories research mentioned in recent PeriodiCALS Read more

A person’s genes can shape the types of microbes that reside in the human gut independent of the environment a person lives in, according to a Cornell-led study. Read more

Ruth Ley's article in November 6 issue of Cell is generating interest in the press. Read more

Ian Hewson and his lab are in the front lines in the fight against sea star wasting disease as described in the May 2, 2014 Science Magazine Read more

Which CALS professor made an important impact on your life? CALS Twitter followers and Facebook friends were asked, and they had some wonderful comments to share.  Our very own Microbiology Professors Esther Angert and Stephen Zinder made the list. Read more

New research reveals how proteins from bacteria tails may lead to inflammation when they come in contact with gut lining cells. Read more

Eight Cornell scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Read more

Associate Professor Ruth Ley was awarded the 2014 ISME (International Society for Microbial Ecology) Young Investigators Award. This will be presented at the 2015 ISME meeting in Seoul, South Korea. Read more

In the November 2013 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Ley Lab graduate student Tyler Cullender and colleagues demonstrate that TLR5-dependent induction of anti-flagellin antibodies prevents commensal association with the intestinal mucosa by limiting bacterial motility. Read more

As disciplines, art and science may seem worlds apart, but a Cornell course bridges the two by using microbiologist Ruth Ley's research as inspiration. Read more

Bacteria have been studied for more than 400 years, but the fact that they routinely function as collectives was missed for 380 years – that is, until Stephen Winans introduced the concept of “quorum sensing.” Read more

Scientists from Cornell's R3 Group and other schools celebrated 10 years of genetic collaboration at the group's 10th anniversary conference on campus, Oct. 3-4. Read more

Researchers have identified a new branch of bacteria, kin to blue-green algae, found in groundwater and in mammalian guts – including those in humans. Read more