Rudd lab
at Cornell University
News of 2026
September
Isabel's review on developmental hematopoiesis was accepted!
August
Emily's F31 got funded! Emily also received the Henry and Norman Obermaier Graduate Fellowship!
July
Norah's R21 got funded!
June
Isabel defends her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Forlastro!
June
The PO1 grant on tissue immunity was funded.
We also received grants to generate a universal source of canine and feline T cells.
April
Ilana Brito and I was awarded a seed grant to study in the impact of the microbiome on T cell development.
March
Subash won 2nd place in Cornell's 3MT!
February
Akshaya won the Mills Award for graduate research and George P. Hess travel award.
Subash and Isabel win travel awards to AAI
February
Our paper on age-related differences in recent thymic emigrants was accepted at iScience
News of 2025
September
Isabel's review on developmental hematopoiesis was accepted!
October
Subash and Anu got married!
December
Our collaborative spatial transcriptomics paper with the De Vlaminck lab got accepted at PNAS
June
Isabel wins a 2nd place poster prize at the Stem Cell retreat.
We bid farewell to Zack, who starts his own lab at the University of Toledo.
April
Isabel wins a travel award to the thmUS conference in Hawaii.
March
Our review on the role of Lin28b in HSCs is out!
January
Emily Kulp joins the lab. She will be jointly advised by Colleen Lau.
February
Isabel wins a poster prize at the BBS symposium.
February
Arjun Anugole (Class of 2028) has joined the lab. He will be working with Subash.
News of 2025
September
Isabel's review on developmental hematopoiesis was accepted!
October
Subash and Anu got married!
December
Our collaborative spatial transcriptomics paper with the De Vlaminck lab got accepted at PNAS
June
Isabel wins a 2nd place poster prize at the Stem Cell retreat.
We bid farewell to Zack, who starts his own lab at the University of Toledo.
April
Isabel wins a travel award to the thmUS conference in Hawaii.
March
Our review on the role of Lin28b in HSCs is out!
January
Emily Kulp joins the lab. She will be jointly advised by Colleen Lau.
February
Isabel wins a poster prize at the BBS symposium.
February
Arjun Anugole (Class of 2028) has joined the lab. He will be working with Subash.
News of 2024
December
Isabel won a CVM scholarship!
September
Akshayakeerthi was invited to speak at the Upstate New York Immunology Conference.
And Subash gets a travel award!
August
Zack's paper on retinoic acid and CD8+ T cell brain homing was published in JI.
June
Vivi defends her PhD thesis!
May
Isabel wins a presentation award at the ThymE conference.
February
The bystander activation paper was published in Science Immunology.
January
Brian heads to Australia for Sabbatical
January
Vivi's chronic infection paper was published at Journal of Immunology.
February
Subash wins the Cornell Animal Health Hackathon!
News of 2023
October
Zack presents his latest and greatest at the Upstate New York Immunology conference.
November
Isabel passes her A-exam. Congratulations Isabel!
November
Akshaya becomes a CVG Scholar.
September
Ellen Rothenberg (AD White Professor-at-Large) visits Cornell. Check out the Immune podcast.
September
Momoko Yoshimoto teaches the lab how to perform embryo dissections.
October
The Rudd and Grimson labs head to Letchworth State Park for the 1st annual lab retreat.
February
Our review is out! We explore the growing body of literature that indicates the behavior, function, and fate of CD8+ T cells is linked to their developmental origin. Read it here!
April
Norah was promoted to Assistant Research Professor. Congrats Norah!
June
Brian traveled to Sweden to serve as a thesis opponent for Hugo Åkerstrand in the Yuan lab.
News of 2022
November
September
Cybelle got 'Best Poster' at the Immunogenomics Symposium!
August
Vivi got first place in the BBS 3 Minute Thesis competition!
August
Zack was awarded the Loan Repayment grant. Congrats Zack.
May
The Rudd lab bids farewell to Scarlett who is off to work at the CDC as an epidemiological intelligence service officer.
April
Congratulations to Scarlett on becoming a double doctor!
February
Cybelle defended her dissertation and now only answers to "Dr. Tabilas"!
Our paper showing neonatal CD8+ T cells are programmed for innate defense is available on BioRxiv! Read it here!
February
January
Congrats to Norah for being awarded the Jackson lab Diversity Outbred Pilot Grant!
News of 2021
December
Norah was awarded a VERGE grant!
December
Congratulations to Zack for being awarded the American Association for Immunologist Intersect Fellowship!
November
Kristel's paper is now out in Cell Reports! Read it here!
September
Vivi received an F30 from NIH ORIP! ¡Felicidades!
July
Cybelle was awarded an F31 from the NIAID! Binabati!
May
Brian was awarded the 'SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Scholarly Activities! Read about here! Congrats Brian!
April
Neva and Cybelle were selected to give oral presentations at AAI! Be sure to register for this year's virtual AAI and tune in to their talks!
February
Brian got a dog!
January
Congratulations to Janelle for being awarded the CIHMID post-doctoral fellowship!
January
The Rudd lab is excited to turn 10 years old this year!
News of 2020
December
Congratulations to Vivi for being awarded a Center for Vertebrate Genomics fellowship!
July
Kristel is now Dr. Yee Mon-Kendal! A massive congratulations on a successful Ph.D.!
July
Scarlett was awarded a NIH loan forgiveness grant! Congratulations Scarlett!
July
Welcome to our new post-doctoral associate, Janelle!
June
Our new post-doctoral associate Zack has officially started! Welcome Zack!
June
Our review describing how the CD8+ T cell compartment is built is out. Read it here!
February
Cybelle has been awarded the Microbiology and Immunology's 'Best Paper in 2019' award sponsored by Biocytogen
January
Dr. Rudd's article in Annual Review entitled Neonatal T Cells: A Reinterpretation is now available! Read it here!
News of 2019
October 2019
Cybelle won the Best Poster at the IMP retreat!
October 2019
Kristel and Cybelle were chosen to present Blitz presentations at the Weill Cornell-Memorial Sloan Kettering-Rockefeller Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis (IMP) retreat! Truly the Rudd Rats dream team!
October
Cybelle and Jocelyn's paper describing metabolic programs in neonatal CD8+ T cells is now out! Read it here!
August
Scarlett passed her A exam!
September
Cornell Research wrote a brief article about our recently funded NIH grant! Read it here!
August
Cybelle won "Best Oral Presentation" at the BBS symposium!
July
Congratulations Kristel for receiving the Liz Hanson Graduate Scholarship!
July
Brian was named Associate Professor of Empire Innovation! Read more about it here!
March
Kristel's first first author publication is published! YAY!
March
Norah won the Biocytogen award for Best Immunology and Microbiology paper! WAY TO GO! Norah's having a great week. Read more about the award here.
February
Huge round of applause to Norah who has been promoted to Senior Research Associate! What an awesome accomplishment.
February
Our paper titled Fate mapping reveals the age structure of the peripheral T cell compartment has been published in PNAS! Read it here.
February
Cybelle and Kristel won Best Posters at the BBS winter symposium. These ladies are truly the Ruddie Buddie dream team!
January
Norah's first NIAID R21 titled Developmental Layers in the CD8+ T Cell Response to Infection was funded!
News of 2018
December
Welcome Scarlett Lee, who is our newest graduate student and will be joint with the Vanderven lab
October
Congratulations to Cybelle who has been selected for the NIH Immuno-Engineering T32 fellowship!
September
Kristel is now an American Association of Immunologists Young Investigator!
August
Cybelle won Best Poster at the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Symposium and Kristel was selected to give an oral presentation. These ladies are always making us look good!
August
Cybelle has changed her email signature to "Cybelle Tabilas, Ph.D. candidate"!
June
A Cell preview was written about our newest story!
June
Cornell Chronicle wrote a story about our newest publication in Cell! Read it here!
May
Congratulations to our very own Smith et. al for our most recent publication in Cell! Smith et al., Developmental Origin Governs CD8+ T Cell Fate Decisions during Infection, Cell (2018), https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.05.029
March
Cornell Research wrote a feature entitled Towards Stronger Immunity in Infants about the most recent NIH award the Rudd lab received. Read it here!
February
The Rudd lab is here to stay. Congratulations to Brian who has been promoted to Associate Professor!
News of 2017
October
The Rudd lab is proud to announce Dr. Jocelyn Wang! Congratulations on a fantastic graduate research and Ph.D. defense! We'll miss you.
September
Kristel the graduate student is now Kristel the Ph.D. candidate! Look out world, here comes future Kristel Yee Mon, Ph.D.!
August
Cybelle's poster got voted Fan Favorite at the Biomedical and Biological Sciences Symposium!
June
Science@CornellVet features Norah Smith's work on their blog.
May
Rudd lab welcomes Cybelle Tabilas as the newest graduate student.
2017
Brian was awarded the Robert Hovey Udall Assistant Professorship!
2017
The Rudd lab opened for business in 2011 and six years later, we decided it was time to launch a website!