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Using a One Health Approach to Understand Threats to Wildlife and Human Health in the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Regions

The Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health, with programs around the globe, strives to sustain a healthier world by developing and implementing proactive, science-based solutions to challenges at the interface of wildlife health, domestic animal health, human health and livelihoods, and the environment that supports us all.

This session takes us to Antarctica. For a long time considered a “clean” environment, research has shown that viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens thrive in Antarctica. Some of them have always been there, but others have recently emerged due to human activity...

Animal Health Hackathon

Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, in partnership with the Center for Veterinary Business & Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurship at Cornell, is pleased to host this annual (and very popular) hackathon for the 9th year in a row!

This interdisciplinary event has all your favorite things about hackathons. Networking with Mentors and sponsoring companies, food, merch, workshops, meeting other Students and $9,000 in cash prizes for winning teams.

ALL STUDENTS ARE WELCOME AND INVITED TO PARTICIPATE!

This event is brought to you by the Center for Veterinary Business and...

"Secondary Use of Clinical Data for Perinatal Mental Health Services Research: Challenges and Opportunities"

Dr. Jyotishman Pathak, a Professor of Population Health Sciences, Frances and John L. Loeb Professor of Medical Informatics, and Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research in Psychiatry in the Population Health Sciences and Psychiatry Departments at Weill Cornell Medicine, s visiting the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine on February 5, 2025 to speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series. All are welcome to attend this event in-person or via Zoom. Refreshments will be served.

Disease Detection, Discrimination, and Dogs: A Conversation on the Roles of and Challenges Confronting Specially Trained Canines for One Health Work

Please join Pete Coppolillo, Ph.D., Executive Director of Working Dogs for Conservation (WD4C), for an interactive conversation about dogs detecting diseases in humans and wildlife. Pete will discuss WD4C’s current and past health work (e.g., projects on Ebolavirus, brucellosis, chronic wasting disease, SARS-CoV-2, and Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae) and lessons learned, and will share some thoughts on developing robust approaches to future disease work. This will be an interactive conversation that will hopefully lead to new research questions and collaborations.

First come, first served pizza and...

Conservation Dogs: Pushing Boundaries for Ecological Monitoring, Biosecurity, Law Enforcement, and Environmental Justice

Please join Pete Coppolillo, Ph.D., Executive Director of Working Dogs for Conservation (WD4C) based in Missoula, Montana, for an overview of the ways WD4C’s specially trained dogs are helping to move conservation forward here in North America and around the world. Dr. Coppolillo will share stories about finding rare and endangered species, helping to stop diseases affecting wildlife and people, and about combining cutting edge technology with skilled dogs to stop wildlife crime. He’ll also discuss how all of these techniques are helping Native and Indigenous communities to capture greater...

CoRe Seminar Series: "Molecular and Genomic Mechanisms of Estrogen Signaling, Enhancer Formation, and Gene Regulation"

Dr. Lee Kraus, a renowned professor and researcher from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, will visit Cornell University on March 5, 2025, to speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series. This event is hosted in collaboration with the Friday MBG Seminar Series. All are welcome to attend this event in person or virtually. Refreshments will be served.

"The molecular biology of meiosis"

Dr. Scott Hawley, an Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Professor and Dean Emeritus at The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute, Research Professor at the American Cancer Society, and Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, is visiting the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine on April 2, 2025 to speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series. All are welcome to attend this event in-person or via Zoom. Refreshments will be served.

CoRe Seminar Series - "Meiotic recombination: from single molecules to chromosomes"

Dr. Lexy von Diezmann, an Assistant Professor in the Genetics, Cell Biology and Development Department at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, is visiting the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine 4/16/2025 to speak as part of the CoRe Seminar Series with her talk, ""Meiotic recombination: from single molecules to chromosomes". This talk will take place at 4:00 PM in CVM's Murray Lecture Hall 1 and is also available via Zoom. Refreshments will be provided.