🌟 Trainee Spotlight: Xiang-Ling “Julia” Li 🌟 Meet Julia from Baskin Lab (@jeremybaskin.bsky.social)! 🔬 She’s developing cutting-edge tools to visualize lipids in living cells and uncover how these essential molecules shape cellular function and disease. wicmb.cornell.edu/lighting-up-...

Join @weillinstitute.bsky.social and Biomedical & Translational Sciences at Cornell University! We're seeking a scientist to turn fundamental cell & molecular biology insights into therapeutic discovery. Build a bold research program with opportunities to advance human and animal health. 🧬🔬

Nucleus is delighted to present a new Collection, guest edited by @lammerdinglab.bsky.social (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social) @weillinstitute.bsky.social. Featuring nine articles. This collection offers expert views and top tier analysis of key historical work. spr.ly/63325BGut9D

Nuclear Mechanobiology

Explore the article collection: Nuclear Mechanobiology. Published in Nucleus.

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📣 We’re hiring! The Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the Department of Biomedical & Translational Sciences are seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Molecular Therapeutics. 🔬 Review begins November 15, 2026

@weillinstitute.bsky.social adventures with AI from @fromme-lab.bsky.social! @rvig.bsky.social and colleagues used AI to uncover a previously unknown class of cellular “off switches” that regulate protein trafficking, revealing new insights into pathways linked to cancer cell movement and disease.

AI reveals new class of cellular ‘off switch’ linked to cancer pathways | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have used artificial intelligence to uncover a previously unknown way cells control how proteins move inside them, a process essential for growth, communication and movement, and o...

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🌱 Wrinkled or smooth? 🍃 New research from @roederlab.bsky.social in @weillinstitute.bsky.social reveals how growth direction and mechanical properties across cell layers shape plant organs, insights that could help scientists engineer living materials into desired forms. 💡

Wrinkled or smooth? Cell growth mechanics determine shape of plant organs | Cornell Chronicle

This discovery could help engineer living materials into different forms, such as the custom of growing bridges from roots in India, and breeding kale so it’s smooth instead of crinkly.

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We're pleased to welcome Dr. Edgar Medina Tovar to @weillinstitute.bsky.social and @cornelluniversity.bsky.social! Edgar brings an exciting research program exploring cellular evolution and fungal pathogenesis, and we’re thrilled to have him join our community. Looking forward to what's ahead! 🔬 🍄‍🟫 🍄

Medina Tovar joins Weill Institute to study cellular evolution, pathogenesis of fungi | Cornell Chronicle

Edgar Medina Tovar joins the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the College of Arts & Sciences as an assistant research professor in September. He will begin as an assistant professor ...

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Katherine Kline is the final student I've had the pleasure of mentoring at @weillinstitute.bsky.social, before starting my journey at @umassamherst.bsky.social. As a BTI-REU intern at @roederlab.bsky.social, Katherine did very impressive work studying miRNA activity in growing organs. Proud mentor!

@weillinstitute.bsky.social Trainee Spotlight: @havingfern.bsky.social, PhD candidate in @roederlab.bsky.social. Michelle's research investigates the sophisticated communication networks that allow plants to sense and adapt to their surroundings. wicmb.cornell.edu/learning-to-...

👨‍🔬 🔬 🧠 How do we better understand, and ultimately fight, neurodegenerative disease? Grad student Nicolas Vergara Ruiz is tackling that question through his research in Weill Institute's Han lab. His story highlights the passion, perseverance, and curiosity behind scientific discovery. Read more:

Interested in #Mechanobiology? Join us for the Mechanobiology Symposium, hosted by the new Cornell Mechanobiology Hub @weillinstitute.bsky.social in Ithaca, NY, this summer. More information at mechanobiology.wicmb.cornell.edu/events-progr... Deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2026

REMINDER: 🧬 Support Weill Institute on Giving Day 🧬 If you’ve been considering a gift, we’d be grateful for your support today. Every contribution, no matter the size, helps strengthen research and training at the Weill Institute. Make your Giving Day gift here: givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/we...

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I’m ready to support Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology on March 12, 2026 during Cornell Giving Day. Learn more about Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology

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TODAY is Cornell Giving Day and a chance to support the impactful science happening at @weillinstitute.bsky.social. Every day, our scientists work to uncover the fundamental mechanisms of life and advance discoveries shaping the future of biology. Donate here: givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/we...

Cornell University Giving Day is next week! Consider supporting @weillinstitute.bsky.social and our faculty, staff, and students working to advance discovery in cell and molecular biology. Visit our donation page on March 12th: givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/we...

📣 Weill Institute Research Spotlight 🔬 ⚙️ 🧬 Baskin lab: New SHKBP1–p62 interaction helps balance cellular recycling Crane lab: Calcium “gate” controls nitric oxide production Yu lab: Promoters & enhancers share unified regulatory logic 👉 Learn more: wicmb.cornell.edu/news/ 👈

🌟 Join our team! 🌟 We have several openings available for Postdoctoral Associates (Neurodegeneration, Organelle Quality Control & Immunity, Polyploidy, Computational) as well as Research Technician positions! 🧠 🌱 💻 See all of our opportunities here: wicmb.cornell.edu/join-our-team/

Thanks Vincent E. Cerbantez-Bueno for a great conversation. @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

Adrienne Roeder and her love of visualizing plant development — Arabidopsis Community as supported by NAASC

Vincent Cerbantez-Bueno, elected as a NAASC Early Career Scholar in 2024, interviews former NAASC faculty member Adrienne Roeder about her career: her background and personal journey to becoming a pla...

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Negin Majedi delivering a fantastic kick-off presentation on the #mechanobiology of cancer immune engineering as part of the new #MechanobiologyHub seminar series hosted by the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University.

Weill Institute is recruiting postdocs, please share! Fischer Lab: lnkd.in/eMnveqyv Hu Lab: lnkd.in/epsGK7wd

We are absolutely THRILLED to welcome our newest faculty member @tarafisch.bsky.social to the @weillinstitute.bsky.social community. We look forward to the exciting and impactful work ahead! news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Weill Institute welcomes Tara Fischer as newest research member | Cornell Chronicle

Fischer investigates how cells detect and repair organelle damage, and how these processes influence inflammation and the progression of neurodegenerative disease.

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👏 Congrats to postdoc Lanxi Hu, member of @roederlab.bsky.social, for being selected as the 2025 Weill Institute Fleming Fellowship recipient, for her research on how plant tissues keep their shape under stress and how those insights inspire adaptive design. 🌱 🧑‍🔬 news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology awards 2025 Fleming Fellowship | Cornell Chronicle

For research excellence into how living structures recover and preserve order in morphology amid constant disruption, postdoctoral scientist Lanxi Hu has been awarded the Weill Institute for Cell and ...

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Random cellular “noise” can, when combined with growth, generate surprisingly orderly patterns. Researchers from @roederlab.bsky.social in @weillinstitute.bsky.social have revealed that randomness itself can be a powerful driver of biological design. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Randomness reveals hidden order in the plant world | Cornell Chronicle

Findings from a recent study show how randomness and growth together create the striking cellular patterns that shape plant organs—and perhaps all multicellular life.

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@smolka-lab.bsky.social researchers in @weillinstitute.bsky.social developed a new biosensor technique using barcoded peptides and mass spec to map when and where hundreds of kinase enzymes are active in cells, revealing insights into cell signaling and drug action. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

New biosensor technology maps enzyme mystery inside cells | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have developed a powerful new biosensor that reveals, in unprecedented detail, how and where kinases – enzymes that control nearly all cellular processes – turn on and off inside l...

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Happy Halloween! Our lab door decorations show our research experimenting on us.

Looking spooky 👻 🕸️ 🎃 around @weillinstitute.bsky.social!