- December 2023: Former postdoc Diego Dibitetto got a position as Principal Investigator at Mario Negri Institute in Milan, Italy, and will be starting his own lab in January 2024. Congratulations Diego!
- November 2023: Graduate student Will Comstock wins best poster award at the EMBO Practical Course on Targeted Proteomics!
- November 2023: Our new eLife paper by Carolline Ascenção uncovers how the ATR kinase promotes silencing of the XY chromosomes during meiosis to ensure male fertility.
- May 2023: Congratulations to graduate student Will Comstock for being awarded an F31 fellowship from the National Cancer Institute – NIH!!! He will develop and apply novel technologies to monitor DNA damage signaling responses and uncover anti-cancer drug synergies.
- May 2023: Congratulations to undergraduate student Yiseo Rho and her graduate student mentor Will Comstock for the best poster award at the CURB symposium.
- March 2023: Congratulations to graduate student Jumana Badar for receiving The Harry & Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award !!!
- September 2022: Our new paper in Molecular Cell reports a suprising role for the DNA-PKcs kinase in DNA replication, with implication for understanding chemoresistance.
- See highlights:
- Story by the Cornell Chronicle: “Discovery explains cancer chemotherapy resistance, offers solution.”
- Nature Reviews: “The Forks Guardian”
- See highlights:
- August 2022: Congratulations to postdoc Jason Wang for receiving the Postdoctoral Fleming Fellowship!!
- May 2022: Congratulations to graduate student Jumana Badar for
receiving the Community Outreach Award and being nominated for the Excellence in Leadership Award!!
- May 2022: Congratulations to graduate student Will Comstock for receiving the CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award!!
- March 2022: Congratulations to Carolline Ascenção for receiving the ASCB International Training Scholarship!!
- February 2022: Our new work in eLife reveals the ATR signaling network in mammalian meiosis.
- November 2021: Congratulations to Carolline Ascenção for receiving the CVG Scholar Award.
- August 2021: Congratulations to graduate student Ethan Sanford for receiving the top poster award at the Weill Institute Symposium – 2021.
- May 2021: New work in Molecular Cell uncovers a fundamental mechanism by which checkpoint signaling prevents replication fork collapse. Exciting collaboration with the Bermejo Lab.
- March 2021: New work in EMBO Journal “Phosphoproteomics reveals a distinctive Mec1/ATR signaling response upon DNA end hyper‐resection” reports a novel quality control mechanism for homologous recombination.
- January 2021: Our new work in EMBO Reports “In-depth and 3‐dimensional exploration of the budding yeast phosphoproteome”. ≥ 40,000 reported phosphorylation events + 3D analysis of impact on interaction interfaces.
Check out our SuperPhos database. - January 2021: Congratulations to graduate student Ethan Sanford for receiving the 2021 CVG Distinguished Scholars Award.
- March 2020: Graduate student Ethan Sanford wins
Top Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference. - August 2019: Our new review article in Embo Journal: DNA damage kinase signaling: checkpoint and repair at 30 years.
- July 2019: New work in collaboration with Jim Haber’s group on how to terminate the cellular response to DNA breaks: Mec1/ATR Autophosphorylation and Ddc2ATRIP Phosphorylation Regulates DNA Damage Checkpoint Signaling.
- July 2019: We have ~doubled the phosphoproteome of budding yeast: In-depth and 3-Dimensional Exploration of the Budding Yeast Phosphoproteome.
- May 2019: Congratulations to graduate student Jennie Sims for receiving the prestigious Mann Award.
- May 2019: Graduate student Jumana Badar joins the lab. Welcome!
- May 2019: Two new papers in collaboration with the Baskin and Koren labs: Cell Reports & Genes.
- July 2018: Chronicle features our new paper: Study reveals how promising cancer drug works for best use
- June 2018: New paper: Smolka lab reports a new role for a key anti-cancer target.
- June 2018: Our research was featured on the Cornell Research Website
- June 2018: Graduate students Mike Lanz and Dongsung Kim give talks at the Buffalo DNA Replication and Repair Symposium
- November 2017: Our recent NIH R01 award “Cellular Responses to DNA Replication Stress” was featured by Cornell Research: https://research.cornell.edu/research/dna-damage-and-repair-implications-tumor-formation
- November 2017: Labsgiving party:
- October 2017: Our methods paper about quantitative analysis of kinase action is published: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29043653
- October 2017: Another awesome Weill Institute Symposium!
- August 2017: Summer Lab Barbecue:
- May 2017: BMCB student Ethan Sanford joins the lab. Welcome!
