Genomics

Field Description

This minor graduate field is intended to provide both broad and specific training in the rapidly evolving area of genomics. Students in the field are required to select two courses from the list below. Additional courses can be required by the Special Committee, depending on area of study and fundamental competency.

• ANSC 3310 - Applied Dairy Cattle Genetics
• BIOEE 4800 - Ecological Genetics of Infection and Disease
• BIOMG 3800 - Advanced Genetics and Genomics
• BIOMG 4000 - A Genomics Approach to Studying Life
• BIOMG 4870 - Human Genomics
• BIOMG 4880 - Cancer Genetics
• BIOMG 6390 - The Nucleus
• BIOMI 3940 - Applied and Food Microbiology
• BIOMI 4850 - Bacterial Genetics
• BIOMI 6904 - Prokaryotic Biology: Bacterial Genetics
• BIOMI 6906 - Prokaryotic Biology: Viral Diversity and Ecology
• BIONB 3230 - Behavioral Ecology, Evolution and Genomics
• BME 6120 - Precision and Genomic Medicine
• BTRY 4381/6381 - Biomedical Data Mining and Modeling
• BTRY 6830 - Quantitative Genomics and Genetics
• BTRY 6840/CS 4775 - Computational Genetics and Genomics
• BTRY 6890 - Current Topics in Population Genomics
• BTRY 7210 - Topics in Quantitative Genomics
• FDSC 3940/5940 - Applied and Food Microbiology
• VTPMD 6250 - Evolutionary Genomics of Bacteria

This is a minor field. Application for admission is made only to the major fields. After matriculation, a student may select minor subjects from the major or minor fields.

Contact Information

Email: bbs@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 253-3276

S3-009 Schurman Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

Subject and Degrees

Concentrations by Subject

Genomics

• genomics (minor)

Faculty

Esther R Angert

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: Comparative genomics of bacterial developmental systems, genomic analysis of symbiotic microbes, molecular evolution.

Adam Boyko

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: genomic investigation of dogs as a model of genetic disease and evolutionary genetics; understanding how the forces of natural and artificial selection have shaped the domestic dog genome and the genetic architecture underlying the tremendous diversity we see in dogs today.

Ilana Lauren Brito

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: human microbiome & disease, host-microbe interactions, mobile genetic elements, antibiotic resistance, metagenomic sequencing

Daniel H Buckley

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: genomic analysis of soil microorganisms; environmental genomics; metagenomics; microbial genome ecology and evolution

Andrew G Clark

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: population genetics and molecular evolution; drosophila population genetics; innate immunity; human population genetics

Paula Cohen

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: meiosis; gametogenesis; recombination; DNA repair, reproduction and development

Ruth N Collins

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: genetic and genomic analysis of organelle identity and evolution; cell growth and polarity

Charles G. Danko

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: gene regulation, genomics, computational biology

Anthony G Hay

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, biofilms, biodegradation

John D Helmann

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: bacterial gene regulation; roles of alternative sigma factors for RNA polymerase; regulation of metal homeostasis and oxidative stress responses; cell envelope stress

Ian Hewson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: marine microbiology; metagenomics; metatranscriptomics; genomics of uncultivated organisms; microbial oceanography

David Ming Lin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: neurobiology; olfaction; genomics; genetics

Magdalen Lindeberg

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: genomics

Jason G. Mezey

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: quantitative genetics/genomics; statistical genetics; computational biology; pathway modeling; molecular evolution

Wojtek Pawlowski

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: Mechanisms of meiosis and meiotic recombination

Eric J. Richards

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: epigenetics; cytosine methylation

John C. Schimenti

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: mouse genetics and functional genomics; genomic instability; genetic recombination; genetics of gametogenesis and development; use of ES cells to mutagenize the mouse genome

Paul Soloway

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: functional genomic analysis in mice; epigenetics; innate immunity

Michael J. Stanhope

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: molecular evolution; comparative genomics of infectious disease organisms

Tudorita Tumbar

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics

Robert Samuel Weiss

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Genomics: genomics
• Research Interests: molecular mechanisms for maintenance of genomic stability; cellular responses to DNA damage; mouse models of human cancer