Congratulations, Jamilla!
Jamilla Akhund-Zade was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2013 competition for Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. It is an impressive achievement even to reach the level of nomination by Cornell, and Honorable Mention in the national competition is tremendous. Nice job, Jamilla! |
Lazzaro Lab Headed to the 2013 GSA Drosophila Research Conference #DROS2013
Lazzaro and Buchon labs loaded into a van with a few colleagues from Rochester to make the drive down to DC for this year's Fly Meeting. With 5 posters being presented and Ginny talking in a platform session, the lab is going to go have a strong presence this year!See the pictures here! |
Great Conference coming up January 2014
Save the date now for what should be an excellent Keystone conference on Invertebrate-Microbe Interactions. Organized by Bruno Lemaitre, Nicole Gerardo, and Jason Rasgon, to be held January 26-30, 2014, in Lake Tahoe, CA. More details here. |
Brian and Ginny in Kenya
Ginny and Brian will be in Kenya for the first three weeks of January teaching BioEE 2650 at the Mpala Research Center. This is a fantastic Cornell course that offers undergraduate students the opportunity to learn practical field biology on the equator in January, surrounded by exotic African animals and birds. During this period, neither Brian nor Ginny will have much access to email, and Brian will not be accepting any new editorial responsibilities or review requests. |
Ph.D. Candidate Howick
Congratulations to Ginny, who passed her qualifying A-exam with aplomb on Dec 14. Ginny is now officially a Ph.D. "candidate." Major milestone completed, congratulations, Ginny! |
Welcome, Moria Chambers
Moria Chambers has joined the lab as a postdoc, effective Nov 1 (although she made the effort to show up, in costume, a day early). Moria comes to us from David Schneider's lab at Stanford. She will be working on interconnections between metabolism and immunity in Drosophila. |
Halloween 2012 pictures posted 
Halloween 2012 pictures are posted here.
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Insectapalooza -- Coming up October 20! 
Insectapalooza, Cornell Entomology's annual open house will be happening October 20 from 9am to 3pm in Comstock Hall on the Cornell Ithaca campus. There will be ativities for all ages, including hands-on exhibits for children and adults, a butterfly room, and an insect zoo. Come explore the world of insects: sometimes pests, sometimes beneficial, and always beautifully diverse in form and function. |
Lots going on at the start of this semester 
There's a lot that's new and exciting in the Lazzaro Lab at the start of this semester. Three newly minted Ph.D.'s graduated, out the door and on to new adventures. Two new postdocs coming in are Parvin Shahrestani (arrived July) and Moria Chambers (arriving November). Brian will be leading the 400-student Intro to Evolution and Diversity course this Fall (and to you students creeping the Prof's website, I look forward to meeting you all in class). Plus rotation students, a lot of science to do, and the resumption of seminars and journals clubs, it's going to be a fun and busy time. |
Sarah Short Paroled
Sarah Short has been provisionally released from graduate school following a superb exit seminar and a successful Ph.D. thesis defense. Pending final and minor adjustments to her written thesis, Sarah will be transferred in October into the custody of Dr. George Dimopoulos for postdoctoral supervision. |
Another successful defense
Jacob Crawford gave an excellent thesis seminar on Tueseday (June 12) and sailed through his subsequent defense. He'll be off to Dublin to present some of his work at SMBE next week. Jacob's Ph.D. work has been on the population genetics and genomics of Anopheles mosquitoes. Congratulations, Jacob. |
Congratulations, Madeline!
On June 18, Madeline Galac successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on the comparative pathology and genomics of bacteria in the genus Providencia. A few final touches on the thesis remain, but the last major hurdle to doctorhood has been cleared. Congratulations, Madeline. |
Welcome to the Lab, Robin Schwenke.
Robin Schwenke has decided to join the lab. Robin is a Ph.D. student in Genetics and Development. She is still working out her thesis project, but her rotation project and general interests have focused on the mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of post-mating immune suppression in Drosophila. |
Amazing BBQ Weather in March
High temperatures near 80 in March! Got us out to Stewart Park for a thursday afternoon BBQ. Slightly chillier with the wind blowing off the lake, but still surprisingly Spring-like temperatures for Spring Break. |
Lazzaro Lab at the Fly Meeting
Rob, Sarah, Robin and Brian represented the lab at the annual Genetics Society of America Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago this month. Rob and Sarah both presented posters. The weather was beautiful (65 degrees in Chicago in the first week of March!), the science was excellent, and the socializing was outstanding as ever. |
"Spring" semester starts at Cornell
Actually, the weather hasn't been too bad so far this year.
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Brian is headed back to Kenya!
Brian will be spending most of January 2012 at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya, helping teach BioEE 2650: Tropical Field Ecology and Behavior. This is a fantastic Cornell course that offers undergraduate students the opportunity to learn practical field biology on the equator in January, surrounded by exotic African animals and birds. During this period, Brian will have very little access to email and will not be accepting any manuscript or grant review requests. |
Cornell insect scientists go to Stockholm
Brian Lazzaro and 8 other Cornell scientists studying diverse aspects of insect biology traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, in November 2011 to participate in a bilateral symposium with scientists from Stockholm University. The symposium was intended to enhance existing relationships between Stockholm and Cornell scientists and to explore the possibilities for new collaboration. Check out the story as covered in the Cornell Chronicle. |
Lazzaro Lab Halloween 2011
See the pictures here.
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Two new postdocs join the lab in Fall 2011
David Duneau and Rob Unckless are the two newest postdoctoral members of the Lazzaro Lab. Rob (left) got his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester working with John Jaenike and Alan Orr. David (right) comes from the University of Basel where he got his Ph.D. with Dieter Ebert. |