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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...
Dr. Patrick Murphy, Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell Univeristy, will speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series with his talk, "Maternal Effect Gene ANP32E Allows for Transcriptional Priming of Young Transposons."
Join us for an inspiring presentation featuring Dr. Purnima Devi Barman, a Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Distinguished Speaker, as she shares her work and passion for advancing wildlife conservation and community livelihoods.
The Hargila Army—How Women Are Saving a Stork—and Transforming Conservation in Assam
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, from 4:00–5:00 pm
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Lecture Hall 4
Pizza and beverages provided for the first 100 attendees!
Please register here.
Affectionately known as the “Hargila Baideu” (Stork Sister), Dr. Purnima Devi...
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...
Join us for the inaugural seminar of the new Biomedical and Translational Sciences Department Seminar Series! Dr. Peter Westcott is an Assistant Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Lab and a Cornell University alumnus. He will be presenting his talk, "Inflammation and stem cell plasticity in colon cancer progression and therapy resistance" in CVM's Paddock Lecture Hall 2 at 12:00 PM on Thursday, October 15, 2026. Lunch will be provided.
Seminar Title: "New Approaches Against A Re-Emerging Virus (Measles)"
By: Dr. Erica Saphire, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
The Cornell Equine Hospital and Cornell Cooperative Extension are proud to host the Equine Seminar Series. These monthly virtual talks are presented by equine experts on important equine health and management topics.
"Is My Horse Getting What It Needs? From Eyeball to Evidence in Feeding, Condition, and the Everyday Work of Horse Management" Presented by Ken Estes, Jr., MPS, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Livingston County
Most of us make feeding and condition decisions by feel — a glance at the hay, a look at the horse, a sense of how things are going. But what if we could sharpen...
Dr. Anna Claire Church, a Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Population Center, will speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series with her talk, "Advancing Understandings of Male Reproductivity."
Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Fall Seminar Series 2026
Title: Beyond the Pathogen: One Health Risk Modelling for Antimicrobial Resistance
Speaker Bio: Dr Claire Hayward is a Research Fellow at Adelaide University, where she leads work in the AMR Risk Assessment project stream for the SAAFE Cooperative Research Centre (Solving AMR in Agribusiness, Food and Environments). Her research integrates quantitative microbial risk assessment with Bayesian network modelling to assess AMR risk across water, wastewater and agricultural systems – informing interventions...
Dr. Julia Herman, DVM, MS, will be holding a special presentation, "Improving animal health and welfare through industry education and quality assurance programs" on Thursday, October 22nd from 12-1pm in the Murray Lecture Hall 1 (S1-166) at the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Seminar Title: "Emergence and Evolution of a Pandemic Canina Parvovirus -- The Control of Viral Host Range and Antibody Neutralization"
By: Dr. Colin Parrish, Cornell 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...
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."
