Focus Areas

• Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | NLSI/Genomics focus area | NLSI FAQ
  Bioengineering integrates physical, chemical, or mathematical sciences and engineering principles for the study of biology, medicine, behavior, or health. Biomedical Engineering is the subset of bioengineering that focuses on human health.
• Biogeochemistry and Biocomplexity | NLSI/Genomics focus area | NLSI FAQ
  Many of the greatest opportunities provided by the knowledge gained from the genomics revolution lie in the foundation it provides for understanding complex biological systems.
• Computational and Statistical Genomics | NLSI/Genomics focus area | focus area web page
  Computational, mathematical and statistical research, development and education associated with advanced tools to understand the origins of life and the molecular processes that underlie both the unity and the diversity of life.
• Entrepreneurship and Business Innovations | NLSI/Genomics focus area | NLSI FAQ
  Curricular initiatives, research, and outreach to assure that scientists can learn about business and business students learn science.
• Ethical, Legal and Social Issues | NLSI/Genomics focus area | focus area web page
  Cornell's commitment to genomics research includes a capacity building effort in the social and ethical aspects of genomics. New issues generate controversy, and problems are intellectually challenging, theoretically interesting, important, and visible.
• Evolutionary Genomics | NLSI/Genomics focus area | focus area web page
  The full potential of sequence data will only be realized if the genomic structure, gene content and gene functions of individual species can be understood in relationship to their evolutionary history and to that of other species.
• Mammalian Genomics | NLSI/Genomics focus area | focus area web page
  Annotation of the mammalian genome will be a major focus of the life sciences over the next several decades. Research will transform our understanding of mammalian biology and disease, and provide unprecedented opportunities to advance human health.
• Microbial Genomics | NLSI/Genomics focus area | focus area web page
  As microorganisms are the predominant form of life on the planet in terms of their diversity, total mass and absolute numbers, it is no surprise that the majority of the genomes sequenced to date are either microbes or, more recently, their hosts.
• Molecular and Chemical Ecology (MACE) | NLSI/Genomics focus area | NLSI FAQ
  A collaboration between Cornell and the Boyce Thompson Institute addressing chemical communication and chemical defenses.
• Neuroscience Focus Area | NLSI/Genomics focus area | Neuroscience at Cornell
  Addressing how neuron functioning arises from genes and biochemical reactions to produce networks of connected neurons; how neural networks communicate to produce the senses, and how the brain produces complex behaviors.
• Physical/Life Sciences Interface | NLSI/Genomics focus area | focus area home page
  Research at the interface between the life sciences, engineering, computer, and physical sciences, to understand biological principles and processes in chemical and physical terms, and develop novel engineered systems based on biological principles.
• Plant Genomics | NLSI/Genomics focus area | focus area web page
  Plant genomics will help us understand how genes enable a plant to function, how the diversity of plant species is related to simple changes in their genomes, and how the structure, function, and evolution of plant genes parallels animals and microbes.