2024
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