2024
8 November 2024
Double success for Chris
Our postdoc Dr. Chris Mellor has been awarded the 2025 Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics Scholar Award! And he ran the Washington Marathon as well!
5 November 2024
Seed grant!
Excited to receive a seed grant from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement to develop our collaboration with Cayuga Medical Center to improve access of local cancer patients to participate in cancer research.
23 August 2024
Lab coating ceremony!
We celebrate Brandon James joining our lab as a graduate student with an official lab coating ceremony at Cornell CVM.
12 August 2024
New flow cytometer
Our latest toy is the Cytek Aurora CS flow cytometer sorter. Hugely expands our experimental capabilities. Our graduate student Brandon completes his 1st experiment on this shiny instrument!
24 July 2024
Grant success
We have been awarded a Scholar Award from St Baldrick’s Foundation, generously supported by RowOn 4 A Cure. This award will fund our research into finding DNA damage based therapies in childhood leukemia.
3 June 2024
Moved to new labspace
After waiting over a year for lab renovations to complete, we have finally moved to our new space in Kinzelberg Hall.
10 May 2024
Mass spec mile stone!
Nick Cheng, our 1st year graduate student completes the first succssful experiment on our mass spec after many months of method optimization and troubleshooting! (We did not drink next to the mass spec, that’s crazy!)
15 March 2024
Dr. Ashley Kamimae-Lanning visit
We are delighted to host Dr. Ashley Kamimae-Lanning, senior postdoc from my postdoc lab under Dr. KJ Patel. Excited to hear Ashley’s almost completed work on fetal hematopoiesis!
1 March 2024
One year old!
We celebrate the one year anniversary since establishing our lab. We’ve made tremendous progress, including some lab mugs to aid the coffee consumption.
23 February 2024
Visit to University of Kansas Medical Center
Warmly welcomed at the University of Kansas Medical Center to talk about our research, hosted by Dr. Ryan Barnes.
20 February 2024
Mass spectrometer installed
After 12 months of planning and renovation, our mass spectrometer has finally been installed! We are thankful to Cornell University and Sciex for all their support, and excited to take our research into a new dimension.
26 January 2024
Grant Success
We are delighted to be awarded the Cornell University Adam and Rachel Border Grant for Cancer Research to study DNA damage in acute myeloid leukemia.
2023
11 December 2023
Jessie Ye awarded Ann S. and Robert R. Morley Student Research Fund
Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher Jessie Ye for being awarded the Ann S. and Robert R. Morley Student Research Fund for her research in our lab. Well done Jessie!
1 December 2023
Success in Multi-investigator Cross Campus Grant
We have been awarded the Cornell University Multi-investigator Cross Campus Grant to collaborate with Dr. John Blenis at Dr. Guillermo Burgos-Barragan at Weill Cornell Medicine Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center.
29 November 2023
Visit to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
A very productive visit to our new collaborators at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, hosted by Dr. Lindsey Romick and Dr. Stella Davies.
20 November 2023
Dr. Chris Mellor awarded Cornell Institute of Biotechnology Seed Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Mellor for being awarded the Cornell Institute of Biotechnology Seed Grant to play with latest methods and tools in flow cytometry and next generation sequencing. Well done Chris!
29 September 2023
Wang Lab featured in FARF2023 in Vancouver
Wang lab introduced at Fanconi Anemia Research Fund Annual Symposium 2023 in Vancouver. What a fantastic community of scientists, physicians, patients and family!
17 September 2023
Emergency rations stocked for the lab!
Not at all encouraging living in the lab or anything….
15 September 2023
First mouse litter born in Wang Lab
Thank you to Dr. Jonathan Stamler at Case Western for sharing his mice for our research. Imported successfully and first litter born at Cornell!
3 July 2023
Welcome to Karim Wehbe
We warmly welcome Karim Wehbe to the Wang lab as our research assistant. Karim joins us from Syracuse University, where he majored in biological sciences.
21 June 2023
New paper: Aldehydes drive blood aging
Dr. Wang’s paper out in Molecular Cell showing DNA damage from aldehydes can cause accelerated aging in blood stem cells through activation of p53 DNA damage response. Now it’s really important to identify the metabolic origins of these aldehydes!
2 June 2023
Wang lab attends the Cornell R3 Symposium
Cornell celebrates the 25th anniversary of its Replication, Repair and Recombination (R3) Group with a fantastic symposium. A privilege to attend and talk about our work. Can you spot us?
28 May 2023
Welcome to Jessie Ye
We welcome Jessie Ye, sophomore undergraduate student in Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Jessie will work in our lab as our summer student.
24 May 2023
Division of Nutritional Science Retreat
A great day of listening to all the exciting science going on in our Division. Yes, we got designer mugs to commemorate the day as well!
18 May 2023
Department of Biomedical Sciences seminar
A pleasure to be invited to present in the Department of Biomedical Sciences seminar series at Cornell University.
Title: Genotoxic aldehydes in aging and cancer.
10 May 2023
Coffee machine finally arrived
After many hours of careful research, here it is, the Breville Nespresso Creatista Plus. Much coffee will be consumed to keep the Wang Lab fuelled.
1 May 2023
Welcome to Dr Chris Mellor!
We welcome Dr Chris Mellor to the lab as our first post-doc! Chris completed his PhD with Julian Sale in DNA repair at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.
24 April 2023
New biosafety cabinets installed
New BSL2 cabinets finally installed in our tissue culture room. That familiar hum as we power up the cabinets, so comforting.
20 April 2023
Benchwork started
Making competent E. coli was the first bit of molecular biology I ever did as a student. Feels like a rite-of-passage for our new lab to start by making chemically competent E. coli. UPDATE: it worked!
1 April 2023
Stocking up the lab
Buy buy buy! Now we have to find space for all these!
1 March 2023
Wang Lab Opening
Warmly welcomed at Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. Brought a few home comforts including a lovely parting gift from KJ Patel’s lab. Now for the real work, which espresso machine for the office?