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.

Many life science companies do not fail because the science was wrong. They fail because no one validated the problem, the customer, or the market before years of development. This Lab to Impact session, hosted by Cornell's Center for Technology Licensing, brings together Audrey Beckman (Boomerang Ventures), Dave Saunders (AiM Medical Robotics), and Dr. Amir Goldan (Weill Cornell Medicine) to discuss customer discovery in early-stage life sciences. Donna Rounds, Ph.D., will moderate. Open to Cornell researchers, faculty innovators, and aspiring entrepreneurs.

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...

Seminar Title: "TBA"

By: Dr. Sabra Klein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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."

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.