Students in this area use cutting-edge wet lab and computational methods to understand the functional significance of genome-scale variation and genome organization. For example, some groups in this area are developing sophisticated computational models to understand genome-scale variation of DNA, as well as integrating it with large data sets of phenotypic information. Other groups are identifying and annotating functional elements such as enhancers that impact gene expression.
Research Area Faculty
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Eric Alani, Professor Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: Understanding how DNA mismatch repair proteins act in repair and genetic recombination |
607-254-4811 eea3@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Charles Aquadro, The Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Science Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: Population genetics and comparative genomics. Our current work focuses on population genetics and comparative functional genomics of genes that regulate germ line stem cells in Drosophila, with particular focus on the bag of marbles (bam) gene. |
607-254-4839 cfa1@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Daniel Barbash, Professor Research Interests: We perform genetic, molecular evolutionary, and genomic studies of speciation, transposable element regulation, genome stability, and meiotic segregation, using both Drosophila as an experimental organism as well as human genomic and polymorphism data. |
607-254-5208 dab87@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Ilana Brito, Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: Human microbiome; horizontal gene transfer; antibiotic resistance; microbial transmission |
607-254-2938 ilb8@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Benjamin Cosgrove, Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: We develop and utilize cellular systems bioengineering approaches to study cell communication and signaling networks regulating muscle stem cell function and tissue regeneration in aging and disease. |
607-255-7271 bdc68@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Charles Danko, Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences Baker Institute for Animal Health Research Interests: Gene expression, transcriptional regulation, enhancers, promoters, non-coding DNA |
607-256-5620 cgd24@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Iwjin De Vlaminck, Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor in Life Science and Technology Biomedical Engineering |
id93@cornell.edu Lab Website |
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Scott Emr, Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professor Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: Cell signaling and membrane dynamics |
607-255-0816 sde26@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Jacquelyn Evans, Assistant Professor Baker Institute for Animal Health Biomedical Sciences Research Interests: We investigate the genetic basis of complex diseases in dogs as models for human disease, including cancer and autoimmune disorders. |
jme255@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Cedric Feschotte, Professor Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: Genome biology and evolution; mobile genetic elements; endogenous viruses; gene regulation; noncoding RNAs |
607-255-8793 cf458@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Andrew Grimson, Associate Professor Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: My laboratory investigates post-transcriptional gene regulation, using experimental and computational genomics, together with traditional experimental approaches. Projects include mechanistic and in vivo studies of post-transcriptional regulation. |
607-254-1307 awg58@cornell.edu Lab Website |
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Maureen Hanson, Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: To determine the underlying cause of the illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, we use analyses of gene expression, immune cell function, proteomics, metabolomics, and statistical and computational tools. |
607-254-4833 mrh5@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Jaehee Kim, Assistant Professor Computational Biology Research Interests: The Kim lab focuses on computational problems relevant to understanding evolutionary processes and population dynamics, and in development and application of statistical methods for inference from genetic data. |
607-254-1328 jk2287@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Hojoong Kwak, Assistant Professor Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: Identifying regulatory regions of the genome in human population; regulation of RNA lifespan in stress response; single cell epigenomics |
607-255-7920 hk572@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Brian Lazzaro, Professor Entomology Research Interests: We study genetics of insect-pathogen interactions, asking why individuals vary in resistance to infection, how the immune response embeds in overall host physiology, and how natural selection acts on the immune system. |
607-255-3254 bl89@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
