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Teaching in Biology of Aging course at MBL!
May/June 2025 Isabel and Carrie spent two weeks at the Marine Biological Laboratory participating in the second round of the Biology of Aging course. We worked with fantastic students Lourdes Materazzi and Bezia Lemma. |
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Carrie visits AP Biology classes at Ithaca High School
September 2024 AP Biology teachers at Ithaca High School kicked off the year by doing RNAi in planarians. Students knocked down different genes and observed their phenotypes. Carrie visited the classes and answered many questions about planarian biology, medical relevance of studying stem cells, and regeneration. Thank you so much to Mr. Higgins and Ms. Jewett for making this happen! As a bonus, Carrie was interviewed for the Ithaca High School paper, The Tattler. |
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Our worms feed on local, grass-fed, sustainable cow liver
May 2024
We just realized that the farm where we get the liver that feeds our worms has a VERY popular YouTube channel! Peter Larson from Just a Few Acres farm, in Lansing New York, produces amazing videos about farm life. Check out these amazingly well-behaved cows (click on the cow pic).
May 2024
We just realized that the farm where we get the liver that feeds our worms has a VERY popular YouTube channel! Peter Larson from Just a Few Acres farm, in Lansing New York, produces amazing videos about farm life. Check out these amazingly well-behaved cows (click on the cow pic).
Isabel, Amy and Fu-Yu teach kids about planarians!
April 2024 A community science event at the Big Red Barn. |
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A profile of Carrie in Current Biology
February 2024
An interview with Carrie in Current Biology's Q&A section.
February 2024
An interview with Carrie in Current Biology's Q&A section.
Congratulations to Kuang-Tse!
November 2023
Kuang-Tse was awarded an honorable mention from the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics Distinguished Scholar competition!
November 2023
Kuang-Tse was awarded an honorable mention from the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics Distinguished Scholar competition!
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Biology of Aging course
July 2023 We had an INCREDIBLE experience participating in the inaugural Biology of Aging course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. We spent two weeks working with Isabella Palazzo and Filippo Conca, immersing ourselves in the diverse field of aging biology. Also huge thanks to the Woods Hole Market for the free sample of ground beef, which the worms enjoyed immensely (on the screen behind us)! Check out this cool article in the Boston Globe written by Carey Goldberg that describes the magic of this course. |
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Congratulations to Isabel and Kuang-Tse!
July 2023
Isabel passed her A exam and learned the most important life lesson: how to open a bottle of champagne.
Kuang-Tse was awarded a fellowship from Taiwan's Ministry of Education! We are lucky to have such motivated students in the lab.
July 2023
Isabel passed her A exam and learned the most important life lesson: how to open a bottle of champagne.
Kuang-Tse was awarded a fellowship from Taiwan's Ministry of Education! We are lucky to have such motivated students in the lab.
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Bye Brendan and congratulations on a successful undergraduate career!
May 25, 2023 We bid a fond farewell to Brendan Little, who is graduating in 2023. Brendan has been the sole caretaker of our planarian colony for two years while at the same time doing a ton of experiments. He has been an integral part of our lab and we are especially sad to see him go. The worms will miss his music! He got some cool souvenirs to remember his old friends. |
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Congratulations to Kuang-Tse on his fellowship!
April 25, 2023
Kuang-Tse was awarded a 1-year fellowship from Cornell's Stem Cell Program. We are grateful to be part of this vibrant community.
April 25, 2023
Kuang-Tse was awarded a 1-year fellowship from Cornell's Stem Cell Program. We are grateful to be part of this vibrant community.
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Developmental Biology New York (DBNY) Conference @ Ithaca College
November 5, 2022 Current undergrad Brendan Little presented a posted on his project and WON one of the top poster awards! And former undergrad Elif Magemizoglu, currently a graduate student in Shai Shaham's lab at Rockefeller, gave a keynote presentation! Fantastic trainees make this PI very proud! |
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Carrie wins the Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence
October 2022 We are very honored to receive this recognition of the lab's hard work over the last several years. |
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Carrie is a keynote speaker at the 5th European Planarian meeting
October 2022 Carrie attended the European Planarian meeting in beautiful Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain. Such a wonderful experience to reconnect with European flatworm afficionados and meet new ones! |
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Welcome Isabel Delo!
May 2022 We are thrilled that GGD student Isabel Delo has decided to do her PhD research in our group and went out to celebrate. |
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Divya Shiroor, PhD
December 14, 2021 Divya Shiroor, the brave pioneer who was the first student to join the Adler lab in 2016, passed her thesis defense with flying colors, after a very successful and productive PhD! Divya will relocate to San Francisco to work at Loyal, combining her expertise in stem cells with her passion for furries. We can't imagine the lab functioning without her and will miss her dearly. |
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Using planarians in the classroom
August 2021 We hosted a workshop for local high school instructors affiliated with the CollegeNow program at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden. We taught them how to manipulate planarians, administer RNAi, and cut worms. |
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Q&A with Carrie in Scopes
July 2021
Carrie was featured in the Cornell Veterinary College's magazine. Check it out here.
July 2021
Carrie was featured in the Cornell Veterinary College's magazine. Check it out here.
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Congratulations Kuang-Tse!
July 2021 Graduate student Kuang-Tse Wang passed his A exam and advanced to candidacy! It's wonderful to have in-person exams and especially in-person celebrations again. |
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Goodbye Tish!
June 2021 It's the end of an era: Postdoc Tisha Bohr is leaving the lab. We will greatly miss having her insight and experience in the lab, but are very excited to see what she accomplishes at Ovid Research, back in the Bay Area! We celebrated with a goodbye party at the Finger Lakes Cider House. |
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Congratulations to Jackie and Lourdes on graduation!
May 2021 Two of our undergraduates – Jackie Han and Lourdes Pajuelo – are graduating this year. While we are devastated to see them go, they are on to bigger and better things: Jackie will be a Clinical Research Coordinator at Mass General Hospital and Lourdes is enrolling in Harvard's PREP program! We are so proud of what you have accomplished here at Cornell, and wish you both the best of luck in your future!!! |
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Welcome to new BMCB student Justin Tapper!
April 2021 Welcome to graduate student Justin Tapper. Justin is a BMCB student and will pursue exciting cell biology projects in the lab! Sometimes he has computer problems too. |
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R01 from NIGMS!!!!
October 2020 We reached a major milestone for the lab - being awarded an R01 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences! The lab worked so hard to pull this grant together and we are excited to see where our discoveries about stem cells lead us. We celebrated by going on a gorgeous fall hike at Treman State Park. We even saw each other's faces in person for the first time in many months. |
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Welcome to GGD student Kuang-Tse Wang and congrats on (remote) graduation to Allison and Lydia!
June 2020
It's a time of great change in the lab. We are thrilled to welcome Kuang-Tse Wang, a student from the GGD graduate program, to the lab for his thesis research! Two seniors have virtually graduated: Allison Chang, a nutrition major, will go on to pursue a masters in Nutrition here at Cornell (and hopefully we'll see her when she returns to Ithaca for a Masters program!). Lydia Zamidar, a Biological Sciences major, will work as a technician in Brian Kim's laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis! Congratulations to everyone for making progress during these challenging times.
Divya's paper published in Current Biology!!!!
May 2020
Divya Shiroor's paper is available online at Current Biology! This is the first installment of her project, in which she discovers that injury interferes with radiation-induced cell death. She created an amazing video to accompany it, as an explainer, featuring adorable hand-drawn cartoons. This is a very exciting week for the Adler lab!
Tisha's preprint released on BioRxiv
May 2020
Tisha Bohr releases a preprint of her postdoctoral work! In this fantastic paper, she asks whether planarian stem cells can sense the identity of missing organs. Short answer: depending on which organs are removed, stem cells behave differently! This begins to answer the question of how stem cells 'know' what to regenerate.
Kuang-Tse Wang from GGD begins his rotation
March 2020
Welcome to GGD rotation student Kuang-Tse Wang. His rotation, during the COVID-19 shutdown, is bound to be an adventure for all of us.
Jacob Odell from BMCB begins his rotation
January 2020
Welcome to BMCB rotation student Jacob Odell!
Divya is the keynote speaker at the DBNY conference!
November 2019
Divya Shiroor (Adler lab grad student) will be the keynote speaker at DBNY (Developmental Biology New York) on November 16 at Ithaca College. DBNY is the first conference focused on undergraduate research in upstate New York and is organized by Ithaca College Biology faculty Te-Wen Lo and Ian Woods. Hopefully this will be the first of many conferences held at IC.
MBL Neurobiology – Functional Genomics section
July 2019
We have had a great time teaching in the MBL Neurobiology course! Graduate student Divya Shiroor TA'ed and oversaw an exciting project dissecting feeding behavior as part of the Functional Genomics section of this intensive course for training graduate students and postdocs from all over the world.
Divya's preprint released on BioRxiv and Carrie gets a PCCW grant!
July 2019
Big week! Divya Shiroor's exciting paper describing a new injury-induced stem cell behavior (sneak peek, stem cells do more than just proliferate in response to injury) is available as a preprint! This is a big moment for the lab too, since it's our first preprint!
Also, Carrie was awarded a grant from the President's Council for Cornell Women! Thank you very much for your support of our work.
Lydia Zamidar joins the lab for the summer
June 2019
Welcome to our new summer undergraduate, Lydia Zamidar.
Kayla Wilson from GGD starts her rotation
March 2019
Welcome to our new rotation student from the GGD program, Kayla Wilson.
Jessica Willdigg from BMCB starts her rotation
January 2019
Welcome to our new rotation student Jessica Willdigg.
Lourdes Pajuelo joins the lab to help take care of our worms!
October 2018
Welcome to our new undergrad Lourdes Pajuelo, who will take care of our planaria colony!
Victoria Serrano from GGD and Jumana Badar from BMCB start their rotations
October 2018
Welcome to our new rotation students Victoria Serrano (GGD) and Jumana Badar (BMCB).
Two new undergraduates join the lab
September 2018
Welcome undergraduates Allison Chang and Jackie Han!
MBL Neurobiology – Functional Genomics summer course
July 2018
Carrie taught in the MBL Neurobiology course, along with graduate student James Cleland from Jochen Rink's lab at MPI-CBG. We had a blast introducing planarians to aspiring neuroscientists.
Lab members present at the International Planarian Meeting
July 2018
Divya and Tisha give talks at the International Planarian Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin.
Divya Shiroor wins 3rd place poster prize!
May 2018
Divya Shiroor wins an award for her poster presentation at the Cornell Stem Cell Program's annual retreat! We are very thankful to be part of this engaged community of stem cell researchers in Ithaca.
Congratulations to Elif Magemizoglu on graduating!!!
May 2018
Undergraduate Elif Magemizoglu wraps up her time in the lab, and is heading to Rockefeller University for graduate school! Congratulations on graduating from Cornell and enjoy New York City!
Divya wins an award for the Best Graduate Student talk at NESDB!!!
April 2018
Divya Shiroor wins an award for giving the Best Graduate Student Talk at the Northeast Society for Developmental Biology meeting in Woods Hole, Massachusetts! Congratulations Divya!
Carrie won a seed grant!
April 2018
Carrie is awarded a seed grant from the Cornell Stem Cell program to study DNA damage in planarians.
Video tutorial for chemical amputation published in JoVE!
March 2018
Divya and Tisha's video guide to chemical amputation is published in the Journal of Visual Experiments.
Bhargav Sanketi from BMCB starts his rotation
March 2018
Welcome Bhargav!
Congratulations Divya on becoming a PhD candidate!!!
November 2017
Divya Shiroor passes her A exam with flying colors!
Postdoc Tisha Bohr starts Science on Tap!
September 2017
Tisha Bohr single-handedly starts Science on Tap: a monthly series of public talks by Cornell scientists for the larger Ithaca community. Find information and updates here.
Divya Shiroor participates in Martha Pollack's Inauguration
August 2017
Divya Shiroor is selected to represent the College of Veterinary Medicine at the Inauguration of Cornell's incoming president, Martha Pollack. She presented a poster of her research.
MBL Neurobiology – Cell Biology summer course
July 2017
Tisha and Carrie teach in the Neurobiology course at MBL!
Welcome to new postdoc Tisha Bohr!
September 2016
Tisha Bohr joins the lab to start her postdoc after an amazingly productive PhD with Needhi Bhalla at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Welcome to Divya Shiroor, who begins her PhD research in the lab!
May 2016
BBS graduate student Divya Shiroor is the brave first member of the Adler lab!
September 2015
The lab opens its doors
June 2020
It's a time of great change in the lab. We are thrilled to welcome Kuang-Tse Wang, a student from the GGD graduate program, to the lab for his thesis research! Two seniors have virtually graduated: Allison Chang, a nutrition major, will go on to pursue a masters in Nutrition here at Cornell (and hopefully we'll see her when she returns to Ithaca for a Masters program!). Lydia Zamidar, a Biological Sciences major, will work as a technician in Brian Kim's laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis! Congratulations to everyone for making progress during these challenging times.
Divya's paper published in Current Biology!!!!
May 2020
Divya Shiroor's paper is available online at Current Biology! This is the first installment of her project, in which she discovers that injury interferes with radiation-induced cell death. She created an amazing video to accompany it, as an explainer, featuring adorable hand-drawn cartoons. This is a very exciting week for the Adler lab!
Tisha's preprint released on BioRxiv
May 2020
Tisha Bohr releases a preprint of her postdoctoral work! In this fantastic paper, she asks whether planarian stem cells can sense the identity of missing organs. Short answer: depending on which organs are removed, stem cells behave differently! This begins to answer the question of how stem cells 'know' what to regenerate.
Kuang-Tse Wang from GGD begins his rotation
March 2020
Welcome to GGD rotation student Kuang-Tse Wang. His rotation, during the COVID-19 shutdown, is bound to be an adventure for all of us.
Jacob Odell from BMCB begins his rotation
January 2020
Welcome to BMCB rotation student Jacob Odell!
Divya is the keynote speaker at the DBNY conference!
November 2019
Divya Shiroor (Adler lab grad student) will be the keynote speaker at DBNY (Developmental Biology New York) on November 16 at Ithaca College. DBNY is the first conference focused on undergraduate research in upstate New York and is organized by Ithaca College Biology faculty Te-Wen Lo and Ian Woods. Hopefully this will be the first of many conferences held at IC.
MBL Neurobiology – Functional Genomics section
July 2019
We have had a great time teaching in the MBL Neurobiology course! Graduate student Divya Shiroor TA'ed and oversaw an exciting project dissecting feeding behavior as part of the Functional Genomics section of this intensive course for training graduate students and postdocs from all over the world.
Divya's preprint released on BioRxiv and Carrie gets a PCCW grant!
July 2019
Big week! Divya Shiroor's exciting paper describing a new injury-induced stem cell behavior (sneak peek, stem cells do more than just proliferate in response to injury) is available as a preprint! This is a big moment for the lab too, since it's our first preprint!
Also, Carrie was awarded a grant from the President's Council for Cornell Women! Thank you very much for your support of our work.
Lydia Zamidar joins the lab for the summer
June 2019
Welcome to our new summer undergraduate, Lydia Zamidar.
Kayla Wilson from GGD starts her rotation
March 2019
Welcome to our new rotation student from the GGD program, Kayla Wilson.
Jessica Willdigg from BMCB starts her rotation
January 2019
Welcome to our new rotation student Jessica Willdigg.
Lourdes Pajuelo joins the lab to help take care of our worms!
October 2018
Welcome to our new undergrad Lourdes Pajuelo, who will take care of our planaria colony!
Victoria Serrano from GGD and Jumana Badar from BMCB start their rotations
October 2018
Welcome to our new rotation students Victoria Serrano (GGD) and Jumana Badar (BMCB).
Two new undergraduates join the lab
September 2018
Welcome undergraduates Allison Chang and Jackie Han!
MBL Neurobiology – Functional Genomics summer course
July 2018
Carrie taught in the MBL Neurobiology course, along with graduate student James Cleland from Jochen Rink's lab at MPI-CBG. We had a blast introducing planarians to aspiring neuroscientists.
Lab members present at the International Planarian Meeting
July 2018
Divya and Tisha give talks at the International Planarian Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin.
Divya Shiroor wins 3rd place poster prize!
May 2018
Divya Shiroor wins an award for her poster presentation at the Cornell Stem Cell Program's annual retreat! We are very thankful to be part of this engaged community of stem cell researchers in Ithaca.
Congratulations to Elif Magemizoglu on graduating!!!
May 2018
Undergraduate Elif Magemizoglu wraps up her time in the lab, and is heading to Rockefeller University for graduate school! Congratulations on graduating from Cornell and enjoy New York City!
Divya wins an award for the Best Graduate Student talk at NESDB!!!
April 2018
Divya Shiroor wins an award for giving the Best Graduate Student Talk at the Northeast Society for Developmental Biology meeting in Woods Hole, Massachusetts! Congratulations Divya!
Carrie won a seed grant!
April 2018
Carrie is awarded a seed grant from the Cornell Stem Cell program to study DNA damage in planarians.
Video tutorial for chemical amputation published in JoVE!
March 2018
Divya and Tisha's video guide to chemical amputation is published in the Journal of Visual Experiments.
Bhargav Sanketi from BMCB starts his rotation
March 2018
Welcome Bhargav!
Congratulations Divya on becoming a PhD candidate!!!
November 2017
Divya Shiroor passes her A exam with flying colors!
Postdoc Tisha Bohr starts Science on Tap!
September 2017
Tisha Bohr single-handedly starts Science on Tap: a monthly series of public talks by Cornell scientists for the larger Ithaca community. Find information and updates here.
Divya Shiroor participates in Martha Pollack's Inauguration
August 2017
Divya Shiroor is selected to represent the College of Veterinary Medicine at the Inauguration of Cornell's incoming president, Martha Pollack. She presented a poster of her research.
MBL Neurobiology – Cell Biology summer course
July 2017
Tisha and Carrie teach in the Neurobiology course at MBL!
Welcome to new postdoc Tisha Bohr!
September 2016
Tisha Bohr joins the lab to start her postdoc after an amazingly productive PhD with Needhi Bhalla at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Welcome to Divya Shiroor, who begins her PhD research in the lab!
May 2016
BBS graduate student Divya Shiroor is the brave first member of the Adler lab!
September 2015
The lab opens its doors
