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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...
Seminar Title: "At the Junction of Immunology and Reproduction: Revisiting the Ovary as a Fertile Ground"
By: Dr. Yi Athena Ren, Cornell University
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...
Dr. Farners Amargant i Riera, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Divison of Clinical Research at Washington University, will speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series with her talk, "Mechanical Regulation of Ovarian Function: From Fertility to Women’s Health."
"Choosing the T-cell profession: the mechanisms within"
Dr. Ellen Rothenberg (Distinguished Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology; A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell)
Thursday, November 19, 2026
4:00pm ⋅ Lecture Hall 5, College of Veterinary Medicine
Open to all ⋅ Reception to follow in CVM Atrium.
An A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program keynote public talk. Cosponsored by the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology and the Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
Dr. Ellen Rothenberg is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology...
Seminar Title: "Forcing the Enemy to Reveal Itself: Studies on the Spike Proteins of Emerging Enveloped Viruses"
By: Dr. Kartik Chandran, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Seminar Title: "Defining and Guiding Antibody Maturation to the HIV-1 Silent Face"
By: Dr. Christopher Barnes, Stanford University
Dr. Carmen Williams, Senior Investigator in the Reproductive & Developmental Biology Laboratory and Reproductive Medicine Group at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), will speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series with her talk, "Calcium at the Intersection of Metabolism and Embryo Development."
Veterinary students present interesting cases (typically 4 each Wednesday) with which they have been involved, including clinical findings, diagnoses, treatment, and outcome.
Need to decompress? Take 30 minutes to pause and reset with Let’s Meditate! Join Simone Christian for a monthly midday sound bath meditation at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Wellbeing Room (S1-017).
Directions: Enter through the main, big, glass doors that are part of the Tower Road entrance. The Wellbeing Room is just past the library, on the righthand side, immediately after the restrooms.
These sound bath sessions feature Tibetan singing bowls, crystal bowls, percussion, and wind instruments. Blankets, yoga mats and eye masks provided. This beginner-friendly session is open to all....
Dr. Hanne Hoffman, Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Science at Michigan State University, will speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series with her talk, "How time-of-day shapes physiology and drug efficacy in pregnancy across mammalian species."
Dr. Roberta Marongiu, Associate Profesor of Genetics and Neuroscience in Neurological Surgery in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, will speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series with her talk, "Perimenopause hormone fluctuation influence on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease."