Researchers identify genetics behind deadly oat blight

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The study, “ Victorin, the Host-Selective Cyclic Peptide Toxin from the Oat Pathogen Cochliobolus victoriae, is Ribosomally Encoded,” was published Sept. 15 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Victoria blight is...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Disease
  • Crops
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Schwartz research award applications due Dec. 11

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Established in 2016, the competitive award supports faculty in Ithaca, Geneva and at Cornell Tech who are leading innovative research and pilot experiments expected to generate preliminary data that could lead to securing a larger grant. Due to...

Cornell tool connects farmers to Walmart climate goals

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To address this need, researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) have developed an online greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting tool, FAST-GHG, to help quantify these emissions in crop production. Walmart Inc. is...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Crops
  • Soil
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Doctoral student contributes to global ocean-predator study

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The multiyear study showed how – as persistent global warming heats the oceans – rising temperatures can reconfigure entire communities of marine predators and impact creatures lower on the food chain. The study was led by the Marine Global...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Plants
  • Water
  • Climate Change
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Meet our faculty: Angeline Pendergrass

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Academic focus: Extreme precipitation, Earth’s hydrologic cycle and climate change Research summary: I study precipitation and the flow of water and energy through the climate system with which it is associated. My interests include extreme...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Water
  • Climate Change
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Meet our faculty: Anne Weber

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Academic focus: Working landscapes, green and living infrastructures, resiliency planning, rural design, community engagement Research summary: My research focuses on rural landscapes, particularly landscapes of extraction, production and...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
  • Climate Change
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Meet our faculty: Zaneta Hong

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Academic focus: Art + design, ecology + technology, materials + innovation Research summary: Landscape architects and designers actively participate in the expansive reorganization of Earth’s matter, energy and form. While the circumstances of...
  • Landscape Architecture
Zaneta Hong

Meet our faculty: Suzanne Bliven Shu

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Academic focus: Marketing, consumer behavior, behavioral economics and consumer financial decision making Research summary: I’m trained in the area of behavioral economics, and my research is on consumer judgment and decision making. Much of my...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Physiology
  • Behavior
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Meet our faculty: Nathan Yang

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Academic focus: Marketing, behavioral analytics, empirical industrial organization, (mobile) health and wellness, and retail strategy Research summary: My recent research has been focused on leveraging behavioral science, big data, machine...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Behavior

Meet our faculty: Nathalie Trottier

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Academic focus: My primary responsibility and focus at Cornell is teaching in the area of animal nutrition. This fall semester, I am teaching a new course on nutrition of felids and canids (cats and dogs), and in spring of 2021, I will be...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Health + Nutrition

Meet our faculty: Meredith Holgerson

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Academic focus: Freshwater ecology Research summary: I study ponds, which I think of as underdogs in freshwater science. Ponds dot the landscape, comprising over 75% of the world’s lakes, not including the hundreds of millions of additional...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Water

Meet our faculty: Megan Greischar

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Academic focus: Within-host ecology and the evolution of parasite traits Research summary: My research focuses on parasite life history within the host — that is, the timing of replication and transmission — traits that are not easy to...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Disease
  • Biology

Meet our faculty: Louis Longchamps

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Academic focus: I research how precision agriculture, on-farm experimentation, data science, and soil, crop and environment sensing can improve the way we manage our crops — to the benefit of farmers and the environment. Research summary: I did...
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Crops
  • Soil
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Meet our faculty: Flavio Lehner

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Academic focus: Climate variability and change Research summary: I study the statistics and mechanisms of climate variability on regional to global scales. Our focus is on atmospheric processes, but since many weather and climate phenomena...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Climate Change
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Meet our faculty: Elad Tako

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Academic focus: Nutrigenomics, trace mineral bioavailability, dietary mineral deficiencies, physiological biomarkers, bioactive compounds, the microbiome, and the functionality and morphology of the small intestinal brush border membrane (which...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Meet our faculty: Courtney Murdock

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Academic focus: Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, eco-immunology, life history, mosquito-borne disease transmission, host-pathogen interactions Research summary: A main driver of vector-borne disease transmission is the ecology of...
  • Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases
  • Entomology

Food safety lab grants $2.9M for new global projects

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The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety, co-located at Cornell and Purdue University, has announced $2.9 million in grants for research projects to improve food safety and prevent foodborne illness in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya and...
  • Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Global Development
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Scientists convene research showcase on gender responsive crop breeding

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On Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, Gender-Responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) will host its first virtual Symposium on Gender Responsive Crop Breeding: Community Research Showcase. The live event will be accessible by...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
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Gut check: Teff grain boosts stomach microbiome health

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Relatively new to the U.S., teff has long been a superfood in East African – specifically Ethiopia – as a staple food crop rich in fiber. Cornell food scientists, led by Elad Tako, associate professor of food science, now confirm this grain...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Plants
  • Crops
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Name that grain: CALS’ barley will boost NYS beer industry

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The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets are co-hosting a naming contest, Nov. 12 through Dec. 3, for this promising new variety – currently called CU-31. All those...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
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