2024.02.27 Professor Sijin Li has won 2024 NSF development award! This award supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Congratulations! https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/02/six-early-career-professors-win-nsf-development-awards
2024.02.15 Professor Sijin Li has won 2024 Schwartz Research Award! This award recognizes a female faculty or faculty who enhance the diversity, equity and inclusion goals of the university and whose work is in the life sciences. Congratulations! https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/02/mycologist-synthetic-biologist-win-2024-schwartz-research-awards
2024.02.11 Celebrating Women in Chemistry! To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Editors of Communications Chemistry launched a Collection celebrating women in chemistry, featuring our publication entitled "De novo biosynthesis of berberine and halogenated benzylisoquinoline alkaloids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". https://www.nature.com/collections/gegdhgbibd
2023.12.11 Chang received the Graduate School's Conference Grant award! Hoo-ray!
2023.11.09 Our recent study has been reported by the Cornell Daily Sun! https://cornellsun.com/2023/11/09/cornell-researchers-develop-new-technique-to-identify-medicinal-compounds-in-plants/
2023.10.23 Franklin has passed his B exam. Congratulations, Dr. Gong!
2023.10.18 Our recent study has been featured in Cornell Chronicle! https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/10/yeast-speeds-discovery-medicinal-compounds-plants
2023.08.02. Aodhan has been selected by the members of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering faculty as the School’s 2022-23 Scheele Outstanding Junior. This award recognizes an undergraduate student who excels in scholarship, leadership, and campus activities. Congratulations!
2023.07.27. Jianing was recognized as a 2023 CBE Fleming Scholar. Thanks to the generous contribution from Sam and Nancy Fleming, and congrats to Jianing!
2023.07. 17-07.21. Sijin, Chang, and Emma gave CATALYSIS outreach to high school students.
2023.07.14. JackGregerfrom the University of Arizona starts the Cornell BTI REU summer research program at the Li Lab. Welcome!
2023.06.22. Emma was selected as one of the NIH T32 Chemical Biology Interface trainees. Congratulations!
2023.06.01. Congrats to Yujia Huang for her graduation!
2023.05.30 Aodhan's Chemical Biology REU summer program starts at Vanderbilt.
2023.04.08. Anthony Dee and Curtis Chen were selected to receive the Engineering Learning Initiative Summer Research Award. Congratulations!
2023.04.07. Jianing's proposal on AlphaFold-driven synthetic biology to develop biosensors received the Research Innovation Fund (RIF) Summer Research Award of the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA).