The 25th Annual Biomedical & Biological Sciences Symposium—a day celebrating student research, alumni insights, and our vibrant scientific community will take place on August 19th at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Beverly Mock, PHD, cancer biologist from Bethesda, MD will provide the annual Douglas C. McGregor Research Lecture. Her talk “ From Population Biology Studies of Trypanosomes in Newts to Preclinical Cancer Trials in Mice" will take place from 10:30AM - 11:30AM in LH1.

Get an early start on your Cornell experience and graduate career! This orientation for international graduate and professional students will connect you with fellow global classmates and provide an introduction to the resources and tools you have available to you as an international student. Register by August 10.

Hosted by International Services, part of the Office of Global Learning

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: Relapsing Staphylococcus aureus Infections: Antibiotic Failure, not just a matter of Resistance

Speaker Bio: Dr Kidd is a teaching and research academic, leading the Bacterial Stress Response research group at Adelaide University. He is also the Director of the One Health focussed and Adelaide-based research centre: the Australian Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Ecology (ACARE). After completing his PhD on the molecular microbiology and gene regulation in Aeromonas hydrophila at the...

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: TBD

Speaker Bio: Erin Duffy, Ph.D., is an expert in drug discovery and problem solving in the antibiotic arena. Most of her professional growth was with Melinta Therapeutics (founded as Rib-X Pharmaceuticals), where over 17 years she became Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer and R&D site head. Her entry into the pharmaceutical sector began with Pfizer Central Research. Erin’s formal training was at Yale University, where she completed a Ph.D. in physical-organic chemistry and an...

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: Functional redundancy amongst PBPs confers condition-dependent beta-lactam resistance

Speaker Bio: Petra Levin is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and completed her postdoctoral training at MIT. Focusing on the intersection of the environment and microbial physiology, research in the Levin lab probes the mechanisms governing bacterial growth, cell cycle progression, and antibiotic sensitivity. Leveraging...

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: Taming the Hydra: Novel Pharmacologic and Immunologic Strategies to Defeat Mtb Persisters

Speaker Bio: Petros C. Karakousis, M.D., M.A., is Professor of Medicine, International Health and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he also serves as Director of the Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) and as an Attending Physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University...

With programs around the globe, the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health strives to sustain a healthier world by developing and implementing proactive, science-based solutions to challenges at the interface of wildlife health, domestic animal health, human health and livelihoods, and the environment that supports us all.

This session focuses on insect pollinators — a group which includes bees, wasps, butterflies, beetles, flies, and ants — and on efforts to reverse the worrying population declines described in the popular press as part of the “insect apocalypse.” For the purposes...

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: A balancing act - c-di-AMP as a global regulator of cell wall integrity and metabolism in Listeria monocytogenes

Speaker Bio: Dr. Huynh earned a BS degree in Food Science at the University of New South Wales (Australia), where she discovered love for microbiology research through studies of microbial ecology of cocoa bean fermentation. Huynh got a PhD degree at the University of California - Davis, where she worked with Dr. Valley Stewart on the mechanism of phosphatase reaction in bacterial two...

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: Designing Food for Health: Roles of Plant Bioactives in Gut Functionality, Microbiome Dynamics, and Inflammation Across In Vivo Systems

Speaker Bio: Dr.Elad Tako holds degrees in Animal Science (B.S.), Endocrinology (M.S.), and Physiology/Nutrigenomics (Ph.D.) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He completed his postdoctoral training in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University, followed by an appointment as Lead Physiologist at the USDA-ARS Robert W. Holley Center for...

Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026

Title: Systematic Dissection of the Escherichia coli Drug Efflux Network

Speaker Bio: Dr. Cox is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), where she leads a research group focused on understanding and countering antibiotic resistant pathogens. With nearly 20 years of experience in antimicrobial resistance, Dr. Cox earned her PhD from the University of Leeds (UK) and completed a postdoctoral...