2025

• Build A Plant–– Joyce’s educational video series covering basic concept in plant anatomy has officially launched! 03/2025 watch here!

• We welcome our new lab manager, Hannah E. Ratcliff, join us most recently from the New York Botanical Garden! 01/2025

• A teary-eyed and heartfelt farewell was paid to Angelique, as she ventures back home to Illinois where she will be beginning a master degree in Plant Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with Dr. Min Ya. 01/2025

• Yifan successfully completes all requirements for the masters in Animal Studies at NYU! It was an extrodinary Master’s thesis! 01/2025

2024

• Onyenedum Lab goes ice skating to celebrate the end of the Fall 2024 Semester! 12/2024

• Annabelle was accepted to the NYU College of Arts and Sciences Women in Science (WinS) program to join a cohort of women mentoring each other in STEM! 07/2024.

• Back to back champions! Cunha Neto & Ornob Alam became Champions of the Summer Ping Pong Tournament from the Dept. Biology @ NYU! 08/2024

• Onyenedum Lab collaborates with ScienceIRL Dr. Molly Edwards to shoot a forthcoming educational plant anatomy series, “Build A Plant”! For five days, we shot at the New York Botanical Garden and NYU, covering episodes on the root, primary growth, secondary growth, and the leaf! 08/2024

• Annabelle was a Wallace-Carver Fellow with the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Services in Syracuse, New York, where she researched federal servicing of historically underserved producers and ways to address access barriers! 06/2024-08/2024

• Onyenedum lab makles a splash at the Botany 2024 Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan | 06/2024

• Yifan, Zack, Israel, Aneglique, and Lena delivers talk (see descriptions below)!

• Onyenedum delivers the Botanical Society of America Emerging Leader Lecture and receives the award!

• Cunha Neto & Ornob Alam (Purugganan lab) became Champions of the Spring Ping Pong Tournament (Doubles category) from the Department of Biology at NYU!  They were adorned with trophies! 03/2024

• Kozma and Onyenedum collaborate to produce a 3-minute research pitch–– lianas as a biological extreme! here 02/2024

• Exciting progress on building the Paullinieae Phylogeny project by Chun Su ! 02/2024

• Onyenedum participates in a collaborative paper on the future of Developmental Biology in Development ! here 02/2024

2023

• Onyenedum published a collaborative paper in PLoS Computational Biology! here 12/2023

• Cunha Neto delivers an invited Seminar at the Dept. of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution at Oklahoma State University! 11/2023

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar to the Dept. of Plant Biology at Michigan State University! 11/2023

• Dr Lena Hunt, recipient doctoral recipient form Charles University in Prague, joins the Onyenedum lab! 10/2023

• Cunha Neto & Onyenedum publish an On the Nature of Things paper in the American Journal of Botany! here 09/2023

The Onyenedum Lab OFFICIALLY launches at New York University, welcoming Israel, Angelique, Chun, and Zack !

• Onyenedum is honored with the 2023 Emerging Leader Award of the Botanical Society of America! This award is given annually to one scholar in recognition of creative and influential scholarship as well as impact in any area of botany reflecting in the botanical community. 07/2023

• Cunha Neto delivers two (smashing) talks at the annual Botanical Society of America Development and Structure Section in Boise, ID!

• Cunha Neto publishes new paper in Annals of Botany here ! 07/2023

• Cunha Neto publishes new paper in the Arnoldia here ! 07/2023

• Cunha Neto organizes an amazing Cornell Campus tour/ Onyenedum lab tour with High School Scholars from Union Springs Academy in Union Springs, NY! 05/2023

• Rizzieri finally receives the highly anticipated package of ~ 800 DNA extractions of Paullinieae for the molecular phylogeny from Gabe Johnson @ Smithsonian Institution in DC! 04/2023

• Sousa-Baena and Cunha Neto earn Travel Awards to the American Society of Plant Biologist 2023 Conference! 03/2023

• Onyenedum gives invited seminar at Louisiana State University Department of Biology. 03/2023

• Cunha Neto publishes new paper in the New Phytologist here ! 03/2023

• Onyenedum lab host Dr. Rachel Spicer from Connecticut College for the Plant Biology Seminar Series. 03/2023

• Acevedo is selected as a 2023 DaRin Butz Research Interns at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University to work with Dr. Villouta! 03/2023

• PI Onyenedum is awarded the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) by the National Science Foundation!!! This award is granted to ~500 pre-tenured University Professors in the United States each year who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in science. See project summary here.

2022

• Cunha Neto gives a smashing invited talk in PLBIO 2480 Plant Systematics at Cornell University! 11/2022

• Sousa-Baena and Cunha Neto present their research at the 72nd Brazilian Botanical Congress! 10/2022

• Rizzieri visits the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Herbarium to collaborate with Pedro Acevedo! 07/2022

• Sousa-Baena presents her research on the role of brassinosteroid in regulating G-fiber development and twining in the PASEDB Postdoctoral Symposium at the joint SDB-PASEDB meeting in Vancouver! 07/2022

• Cunha Neto presents his research on Urvillea vascular variants in the Organogenesis & Morphogenesis session the Society of Development Biology/ Pan American Society of Evolutionary Developmental Biology meeting in Vancouver! 07/2022

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar at New York University [Plant Biology] 06/2022

• Eric Liu, undergraduate researcher graduates with his Honors thesis concerning Alnus wood anatomy 05/2022

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar at the Northeast Society of Development Biology Conference 03/2022

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar at University of Pennsylvania [Plant Biology] 02/2022Yana Rizzieri joins the lab as a PhD student! 01/2022

• Angelique Acevedo joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher! 01/2022

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar at North Carolina State University [Plant and Microbial Biology] 01/2022

• New lab publication: Review Article in Current Opinion in Plant Biology 01/2022

• New collaborative article published in the Brazilian Journal of Botany 01/2022

• Cunha Neto earns Arnold Arboretum Sargent Award for his postdoctoral research! 01/2022

2021

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar at Tulane University [Ecology & Evolutionary Biology]

• Dr. Mariane S. Sousa-Baena joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate!

• Dr. Israel L. Cunha Neto joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate!

• New lab publication: Review Article as cover feature in American Journal of Botany.

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar to Smithsonian Natural History Museum [Botany]

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar at Humboldt State University [Biology]

• Rosemary heads off to pursue a PhD at Michigan State University!

• New lab publication: Tansley insight published as cover feature in New Phytologist

• Lab paper featured in the Cornell Chronicle

• New lab collaborative paper published in PLOS One.  

2020

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar to University of Florida [Biology]

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar to Carnegie Plant Biology/ Stanford University

• Onyenedum delivers invited seminar to Australasian Systematic Botany Society

• Rosemary Glos joins the lab as the manager and research tech!

• Onyenedum research featured in the New York Times

• Onyenedum lab opens up! 07/16/2020