December 2024 Congratulations to the new Dr. Cockey who successfully defended his PhD on December 12th! Jamie is back in veterinary school to complete the DVM portion of his combined degree program.
Congratulations Dr. Leifer on being elected the president-elect for the Society for Leukocyte Biology.
September 2023 Congratulations DVM/PhD student Jamie Cockey for an excellent poster presentation and being awarded Presidential Scholar at the Society for Leukocyte Biology Conference.
August 2023 Congratulations Dr. Karla Garcia-Martinez for successfully defending her thesis!
February 2023 Congratulations to DVM/PhD student Jamie Cockey for acceptance of his review Racing CARs to veterinary immuno-oncology. January 2023 Dr. Leifer participates in the launch of Solving for Science. Check out more about this amazing group creating new solutions to big issues in science. https://solvingfor.org/
January 2023 A great start to the new year: Congratulations! Graduate student Karla García-Martínez is selected as a new member of the National Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. She will attend an induction ceremony and scientific conference at Yale University in April.
October 2022 Graduate student Karla García-Martínez presents an award talk and poster at the Society for Leukocyte Biology Meeting.
September 2022 Jamie Cockey passes his qualifying examination and is now officially a PhD candidate!
September 2022 Summer Veterinary Leadership student Christina Kerkenpass wins the Cell Biology Prize! Congratulations! June 2022 Karla García-Martínez is selected for the Science Diversity Mentorship Program in Biotechnology.
May 2022 Undergraduate researcher Alex Woo completes her studies and moves on to a post-bac at at NIH. Good luck!
February 2022 Laboratory Tech Jingyi Chen is accepted into the BBS Ph.D. program. She will start her Ph.D. journey in August. Good luck!
April 2021 Dr. Leifer completes multiple science communication projects including a video on "how vaccines work" and another about "vaccine safety". Check them out and share them with friends.
April 2021 Dr. Leifer is awarded promotion to the rank of full Professor!
January 2021 Dr. Leifer is interviewed for an in depth discussion of COVID-19 vaccines for the Ithaca Times.
January 2021 DVM/PhD student Jamie Cockey joins the lab.
June 3, 2020 The lab is back open! We received official approval of our safety plan to work in the lab during the COVID-19 Pandemic. We have been on pause since March 18.
May 2020 Check out this awesome YouTube Video series on COVID-19 by Cornell graduate student Jonathan Villanueva. Dr. Leifer is featured speaking about immunology.
May 2020 The lab received a small pilot grant to work on SARS-CoV-2.
March 2020 Dr. Leifer presented the lab findings on cancer extracellular vesicle effects on macrophages at the Center on the Physics of Cancer Metabolism Site Visit.
June 2019 Graduate student Karla García-Martínez joins the lab!
March 2019 Review on Mechanoregulation of Macrophages and TLRs is accepted for publication at Innate Immunity
December 2018 The last Immune podcast of the year was recorded. You can find Immune here: microbe.tv/immune
December 2018 The Leifer lab was funded, along with the Stokol and Nishimura labs, to study interactions between cancer cells and macrophages.
CONGRATULATIONS Erika Gruber for starting her faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology at NC State College of Veterinary Medicine.
October 2018 The Leifer lab was funded. along with the Putnam and August labs) to investigate the innate immune response to a novel combination-adjuvant vaccine platform. The goal is to develop broadly neutralizing antibodies to influenza, but the project will be both basic and translational. Trainees interested in a postdoctoral fellow position should contact Dr. Leifer for further information.
October 2018 The Cornell Institute of Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease (CIHMID) is soliciting applications for postdoctoral fellowships. Details can be found athttp://cihmid.cornell.edu/postdoc.html
June 4, 2018. Ali Aygun joins the lab for the summer!
June 1, 2018. Dr. Leifer will be recording IMMUNE live at the American Society of Virology Conference. Stay tuned for more details. May 24, 2018. Summer 2017 Intern Tuan Phan's exciting review on HHV-6 is published in Bone Marrow Transplantation: doi:10.1038/s41409-018-0225-2