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REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/Svk6ToJ9vrNK4iRV7   CIHMID is pleased to announce our annual Summer Research Symposium to be held on Thursday July 11, 2024. The Symposium will be held in Stocking Hall on the Ithaca campus and will a full day of research presentations from members of our community. A call for submitted abstracts will be released […]

Now accepting applications to CIHMID’s Undergraduate Research Experience (URE) Program for current Cornell undergrads. Find more info here. Applications are due Nov 8, 2024.

The Cornell Center for Immunology (CCFI) and Cornell Institute of Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease (CIHMID) are pleased to offer support to postdoctoral researchers who plan to attend scientific conferences during the 2022-2023 calendar years. CCFI and CIHMID will provide host labs up to $500 (total) to cover conference costs (registration, travel) for any postdoctoral researcher in […]

REGISTER HERE: cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form  CIHMID, and the Cornell Center For Immunology (CCFI) will present a joint research symposium, open to the Cornell community. And despite the uncertainty surrounding Covid, and the Omicron variant specifically, CIHMID and CCFI are confident our joint symposium will be safe, and accessible for all attendees. As of right now our plan is to […]

CIHMID is pleased to release our 2021 Administrative Report summarizing the structure of the institute and major activities to date.

Dr. Cynthia Leifer gave an excellent interview with local news source, Ithaca.com. The entirety of the article appears below. ITHACA.com article ITHACA, NY — The COVID-19 vaccine is here, and people have questions. Is it safe? Are there long-term effects? How was it produced so quickly? How long will immunity last? To answer some of […]

Professor Esther Angert, CIHMID faculty member and former Chair of Microbiology, joins the CALS senior leadership team. Congratulations, Esther! LINK to full story: https://cals.cornell.edu/news/microbiology-chair-esther-angert-joins-cals-senior-leadership-team

The Whittaker lab has a new paper out in mBio that looks deeper into coronaviruses and their relationship to the superfamily Musteloidea. PAPER:  https://mbio.asm.org/content/12/1/e02873-20  

Assoc. Prof. Teresa Pawlowska discusses her lab’s work on food safety and fungi. The full text of the Cornell Chronicle story is below. CORNELL CHRONICLE STORY By Krishan Ramanujan A new grant will investigate how bacteria that live inside the cells of fungi may shape the biology, evolution, biodiversity and function of these fungi – […]

The Brito lab has published a paper in Nature in collaboration with the De Vlaminck Lab; “Highly multiplexed spatial mapping of microbial communities.” PAPER: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2983-4