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Associate Professor Clare Casteel (SIPS) has a paper out in Nature Plants, in collaboration with labs at UC Davis: “Organic management promotes natural pest control through altered plant resistance to insects” PAPER:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-020-0656-9.epdf

The John Helmann lab has a new paper out, “A regulatory pathway that selectively up-regulates elongasome function in the absence of class A PBPs” in eLife.  LINK TO PAPER: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32897856/

Prof. Corrie Moreau talks about digitizing the Cornell University Insect Collection. The full article appears below. CALS ARTICLE By Krishna Ramanujan As director and head curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, Corrie Moreau has numerous tasks on her to-do list, including one that could last her entire career: digitizing the collection’s 7 million specimens. Digitization is a […]

New paper out, produced with David Bucholz, Microbiolgy & Immunology, CVM. “Finding proteases that make cells go viral”, J Biol Chem. 2020 Aug. PAPER:     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32817125/

Prof. Stephen Ellner is developing new statistical tools for ecological modeling with Associate Professor Giles Hooker through a project supported by the NSF, as described in this Cornell Research article from last summer. LINK:  https://research.cornell.edu/research/new-statistical-tools-ecological-modeling

Hendry lab postdoc Dr. Lydia Baker collaborated with artist Gideon Gerlt (gideongerlt.com) to produce a lovely comic explaining the Hendry lab’s research on the luminous symbionts of deep-sea anglerfish.