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• Development of novel feather-degrading protease complex for environmental, nutritional, and industrial applications
• Managing grapevine viral diseases
• A Pilot Gene-Based DNA Test for Heifer Fertility in New York State
• A new DVD: 'The Science of Fire Blight'
• A numerical approach for predicting volumetric inactivation of foodborne pathogens by pulsed light treatment
• Active learning facilitates teaching non-majors biology
• Advanced Winter Wheat Management
• Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II
• Agricultural Innovation Partnership
• Agriculture and Food Research: An economic development engine
• Algal Bioenergy Production
• An intellectual biography of Nobel-prize winner Barbara McClintock
• Analyses of biochemical and genetic interactions of ABC transporters required for heavy metal detoxification in C. elegans
• Analyses of the molecular mechanisms of HMT-1-dependent heavy metal detoxification
• Analysis and manipulation of plant senescence for improving horticultural, agronomic, and bioenergy production
• Analysis and manipulation of plant senescence for improving horticultural, agronomic, and bioenergy production
• Answering questions about apple tree architecture
• Apples could help reduce the risk of breast cancer
• Application and extension of new tools to characterize and evaluate elemental sulfur residues on grapes and in musts
• Arthropod Sensory Biology
• Arthropod sensory biology
• Assess the level of a nutrient needed to optimize human health
• Assessing the sources, sinks, and fluxes of nitrogen in large watersheds and coastal regions, including the influence of climate variability and climate change
• Asymmetric cell division and cell polarity in embryonic development
• Auxin homeostasis during tomato fruit and development
• Avian reproductive behavior research
• Bacteria that cause rotten onions
• Bacterial environment affects their motility and virulence
• Bacterial pathogens of plants, their genes, and the relevance of genome sequencing for secondary school students and teachers.
• BioG400-6 Undergraduate Biology Journal Club
• Bioacoustic research for basic life science understanding and for teaching K-12 through college.
• Bioactive fatty acids in milk fat and their role in the prevention of chronic diseases
• Biochemical and physiological study of folate-mediated one-carbon metabolism
• Biodiversity of small tropical islands
• Bioenergy and Bioproducts Education Programs
• Biofortifying staple crops to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in humans
• Biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of Amazonian Dark Earth Soils.
• Biological Control of Alfalfa Snout Beetle with Insect-Attacking Nematodes
• Biological Control of the Invasive Asian Longhorned Beetle
• Biological Control of the New, Invasive Sirex Woodwasp
• Biology Research Fellowships - increasing the diversity of USA scientists
• Biology of Manganese oxidation by Leptothrix discophora
• Biology of mosquito vectors of disease
• Biosensors and nanosensors for rapid pathogen, toxin, and disease detection
• Biosensors and nanosensors for rapid pathogen, toxin, and disease detection
• Biosensors and nanosensors for rapid pathogen, toxin, and disease detection
• Biosensors and nanosensors for rapid pathogen, toxin, and disease detection
• Bird life histories online
• Breeding and commercialization of shrub willow bioenergy crops
• Broccoli, a new high-value vegetable for New York
• CCE educators lend garden-based learning knowledge to Cornell students
• Chair of the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
• Changes in Neuronal Activity After Spinal Cord Injury
• Changes in ecosystem services on marginal land due to cultivation of crops for biofuels
• Citizen-Centered Leadership Development
• Community IPM: Reducing risk across New York
• Community and evolutionary ecology of insect herbivores
• Community and evolutionary ecology of insect herbivores
• Community and evolutionary ecology of insect herbivores
• Community and evolutionary ecology of insect herbivores
• Community and evolutionary ecology of insect herbivores
• Control of mitochondrial genes in assembly of the respiratory chain
• Controlled-environment agriculture
• Cornell Biofuels teaching game: The Race to the Pump!
• Cornell Institue for Biological Engineering
• Cretaceous and tertiary paleofloras of Patagonia, Argentina.
• Cross regulation between epigenetic mechanisms
• Dairy Farm Advisor Skills Training—DairyFAST
• Dairy Food Extension Program supports the New York dairy processing industry
• Dairy industry outreach at Cornell University
• Decoding human, other mammalian, and bacterial genomes by computer
• Determining the effects of nutrient supplementation and genetic modifications on ethanol tolerance of Baker's yeast to decrease the cost of bioethanol production
• Develop effective, sustainable, and environmentally friendly strategies to control viruses of vegetable and fruit crops based on advanced knowledge of virus-host interactions and virus-vector relationships
• Developing Undergraduate Research Practicum Opportunities
• Developing a new generation of feed protein supplements from algal biofuel production
• Developing educational software and support for teaching neurobiology, behavior, acoustics, and genetics.
• Developing sustainable and organic pest management programs for orchard systems
• Developing tomato varieties resistant to late blight and early blight
• Developing undergraduate research practicum opportunities
• Development and Validation of a Web-based System to Provide Tree Fruit Pest Development Predictions and Management Recommendations
• Development of a private product development lab at the AgTech Park
• Development of a sensitive low-cost lateral flow dipstick assay for detection of map antibodies
• Development of an efficient semiochemical monitoring tool for bed bugs
• Development of bovine spermatogenesis in vivo and in vitro and relationship to male fertility.
• Development of novel phytase to reduce phosphorus pollution of animal waste
• Development of statistical tools for identifying genes responsible for diseases, agricultural traits, and other complex aspects of organisms.
• Development, implementation, and outreach for emerging technologies of plant pathogen detection
• Early life nutrition and management and long-term productivity of dairy calves
• Ecological and evolutionary response of organisms in nature to environmental change
• Effect of Spinal Cord Injury on Neuron Properties
• Effect of mercury exposure on the immune system
• Effects of transgenic Bt crops on soil ecology
• Engaging faculty and Extension resources in political process
• Engineered bacterial communication prevents V. cholerae virulence in an infant mouse model
• Enhanced crop yield and nitrogen fertilizer utilization
• Environmental and genetic determinants of seed quality and performance
• Environmental and genetic determinants of seed quality and performance
• Epigenetic regulation of Pdx1 expression in mouse models of diet-induced obesity
• Establishment of a 'community of practice' of agricultural researchers in the East and Horn of Africa
• Estrogen signaling pathways suggest new targets for treating breast cancer
• Evaluation instrument for 'Cooking Up Fun: Vary Your Veggies'
• Evolutionary Genetics of Insect Immune Defense
• Expansion of an international crop research program
• Exposing students to everyday microbiology
• Faculty discuss new ideas for learning and teaching
• Forest health in the face of invasive non-native forest pests
• Fruit IPM promotes green thinking
• Function of a vascular protein that is required for metabolism of triglycerides in humans and mice
• Functional analyses of plant shoot development: Leaves, meristems, embryos and stems.
• Functional genomics of Pseudomonas-plant interactions
• Functional genomics of plant pathogenicity in Streptomyces species
• Functionality and processing stability of milk protein concentrates obtained by membrane separation
• Functions of reproductive proteins (primarily in insects)
• Gene-nutrient interactions as predictors of infectious disease outcomes
• Genetic and metabolomic approaches to improving tomato shelf life
• Genetic measurements of larval abundance in support of hard clam restoration in Great South Bay, NY
• Genetic research and tools for horse health
• Genetics of invasive insect and natural populations
• Genome organization and transmission genetics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• Grape metabolomics in relation to disease resistance
• Gypsy Moth and the Effectiveness of Fungal Biological Controls
• HTST (High Temperature Short Time) Pasteurizer Operators Workshops
• High-pressure processing of food and biomaterials
• How Predators Affect Insect Herbivores and Resulting Plant Damage
• How do cells maintain their internal organization?
• How insects hear and localize sounds, and fruitflies with seizures
• How is cancer initiated?
• Identification of a fertility-restorer gene in rice
• Identifying and controlling the causes of unripe flavors in red wines
• Identifying improved drought tolerance in maize
• Immune responses to natural M. paratuberculosis infection and MAP vaccine
• Impact of viral hemmorrhagic septicemia on marine and Great Lakes fisheries
• Impacts of stress factors on performances, health, and well-being of farm animals
• Improved analysis of steroids in human urine for detection of steroid abuse in sports
• Improved plant performance using endophytic plant symbiotic fungi
• Improving K-20 science education
• Improving quality of life by understanding biological rhythms
• Improving tef in Ethiopia by providing researchers access to the benefits of molecular markers
• Indoor environment of a green and healthy home
• Inference of biological function and mechanism of evolutionary change from comparative genomic data
• Insect Identification for New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets survey program
• Insulin resistance in dairy cows: Parallels with Type II diabetes
• Integrated technologies for the rapid diagnosis of known and emerging plant pathogens
• Integrating Pest Management Technology to Control Codling Moth
• Integrating genetically modified insect-resistant plants into IPM
• Intellectual property management
• Intellectual property management resource
• International Program in Soil Health
• Invasion of plant vascular systems by bacteria
• Invasive Alien Species in the Hawaiian Islands
• Invasive species: Meeting the challenge with stakeholder knowledge
• Life history variation in birds
• Lights out (or on) for plant diseases
• Macaulay Library Extension and Outreach Activities
• Management, analysis, and dissemination of data and resources related to the genome sequences of plant pathogenic bacteria in the species Liberibacter asiaticus and Pseudomonas syringae
• Managing a New Downy Mildew Disease on Impatiens
• Master Beekeeper Program
• Mechanisms and consequences of vitamin E status in humans
• Mechanisms of diversification and oysters in a Florida coastal ecotone
• Meiosis and recombination in plants
• Microbial transformations of heavy metals in soils naturally high in zinc and cadmium
• Molecular Diagnostics of Insect Pests in New York State
• Molecular and Physiological Approaches to the Study of Electrogenesis
• Molecular genetics of wild bird populations
• Molecular studies of hair follicle and skin stem cells
• Molecular systematics and comparative genomics of polyploid plants
• Mouse as a proxy for human history
• NEWA expansion and innovation
• Naturalist Outreach: Engaging Young Scientists and Training a Generation of Scientific Outreach Leaders
• Neurobiology Journal Club for Undergraduates
• New York Dairy Discovery Workshop
• New York Project WET (Water Education for Teachers)
• New and emerging disease in wild bird populations
• New oak hybrids for urban sites
• New recommendations for diets of pregnant and lactating women
• Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center
• Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center
• Northern Grapes Project Addresses New Industry in 12 States
• Novel tools for remediation of heavy metal contaminated soil and water using transgenic plants
• Nucleic acid engineering: Materials, properties, and applications
• Nucleic acid engineering: materials, properties, and applications
• Nutritiona genomics: Interactions of vitamins and other dietary components with human genes in health and disease
• Nutritional needs of the developing chick embryo
• Optimal nutrition for pregnant women and adolescents
• Optimizing human health through nutrition
• Our shockingly cold springs help grapes resist disease
• Ovarian follicle development in chickens
• PROJECT 1: The evolving family: Family processes, contexts, and the life course of children\n \nPROJECT 2: Using animal models to understand human family dynamics\n\nPROJECT 3: Transnational environmental training in Kenya
• Perceptions of Access to Worksite Wellness Resources
• Ph.D. fellowships for plant breeding
• Phylogenetics and evolution of grasses and related monocots
• Plant volatiles and their perception by insect pollinators
• Plastic animal signals
• Pollinator Health: Honey Bees and Insect-Pollinated Crops
• Practical applications of cloned insect desaturase genes in crop protection
• Practical, Cost-Effective, Ecologically Sound, and Readily Adoptable Integrated Confinement and Pasture Fly Management Programs for Dairy and Beef Cattle (Conventional and Organic) Producers
• Predicting food safety
• Principal component analysis of canine hip dysplasia phenotypes and statistical power for association mapping
• Processing Plant Superintendents(PPS) and Certified Milk Inspectors (CMI) Annual Updates and CMI School
• Production of cellulase in plants for conversion of biomass to sugar for bioenergy
• Production of cellulase in plants for conversion of biomass to sugar for bioenergy
• Professional overview
• Project FeederWatch
• Public education about genetically engineered plants
• Quantifying and Enhancing the Role of Native Bees in Apple Pollination
• Reduced-chemical golf course management
• Reducing risks associated with pests and pesticides in communities through integrated pest management
• Reducing risks associated with pests and pesticides in communities through integrated pest management (IPM)
• Regulation of gene expression in a bacterial virus
• Regulation of invasive plant species by plant pathogens
• Renewable fuel from agricultural waste
• Research, development, and application of advanced technologies for monitoring rare and endangered species in marine and terrestrial environments.
• Responses of Bacillus subtilis to environmental stresses
• Rewiring the gut to treat diabetes by secreting insulinotropic proteins from commensal bacteria
• Rice Diversity Project
• Scientific plant names
• Simple Cultural Techniques to Reduce Bacterial Bulb Decay in Onions Sustain Small-Scale Onion Industry in the Northeastern United States
• Spotted wing drosophila, invasive fruit fly
• Structure and assembly of retroviruses
• Studying genes in soil worms in research on aging
• Supporting scientists in doing outreach
• Supporting scientists in doing outreach
• Survey of Invasive Insect Pests of Tree and Small Fruit
• T.F. Lucy Herbarium Collection
• Tata-Cornell program on agriculture and nutrition
• Teaching Biology Laboratory for Majors
• Teaching dairy and other farmers sound environmental practices
• Teaching plant biology undergraduates and non-science majors
• Temporal Coding and Communication
• The Agricultural Ecosystem Program: Understanding sources and sinks of nutrients and sediment in the upper Susquehanna River basin
• The Agricultural Ecosysystem Program: Understanding sources and sinks of nutrients and sediment in the upper Susquehanna River basin
• The Cornell Kosher and Halal Food Initiative
• The Milk Quality Improvement Program (MQIP): Providing support and adding value to the New York dairy industry
• The Milk Quality Improvement Program (MQIP): Providing support and adding value to the New York dairy industry
• The Northeast Sun Grant Initiative
• The Northeast Sun Grant Initiative
• The Safety of Imported Foods
• The Water Resources Institute (WRI) supports the Hudson River Estuary Program
• The chemical ecology of plant-induced responses to herbivory
• The evolution of cooperation and conflict
• The hen as a model for human ovarian cancer
• The role of antioxidant enzymes on diabetes
• The role of mobile DNA in genome stability and evolution
• The structure, function and practical applications of plant cell walls
• Tools for Sulfur and Potassium Management of Alfalfa
• Trac Software Workshops
• Training the next generation of food scientists: The food science undergraduate summer research program
• Training the next generation of food scientists: The food science undergraduate summer research program
• Transfer of genes into apple plants without using any antibiotic resistance gene
• Transfer, action, and deployment of acylsugars providing multiple pest resistance and virus control in tomato
• Undergraduate Program Director
• Understanding cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration for hybrid seed production
• Understanding obesity and the hormones produced by adipose tissue
• Understanding the Costs and Benefits of Group-Living in Spiders
• Understanding the biology of flavor perception to enhance taste and aroma in foods
• Understanding the role of metals in plant function and the bioavailability of metals in human nutrition
• Use of nanoscale topography for controlling bacterial attachment
• Validating a phenology-based degree-day model to improve timing for grape berry moth management strategies
• Waste management
• Water quality in hydrologically sensitive areas; predicting runoff and pollution
• We Work Too: Disability, Leisure, and Work/Life Balance
• Web-based Problem Sets Promote Active Learning of Neurobiology
• Woody ornamentals industry aided by pest diagnosis and decision-making
• YardMap