| Jul 31, 2026 | Joanie Cha joins the lab as a PhD student this fall — our first graduate student!  |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Farewell and thank you to Anna Cohen, our first lab manager, whose last day is today. Anna built this lab from an empty room — E. coli pilots, Clarkia germination trials, and most of our protocols. We’ll miss her!  |
| Jun 26, 2026 | John is co-hosting (with Erik Enbody) a 5-day SLiM Evolutionary Modeling Workshop at Cornell, Oct 5–9, 2026, taught by SLiM’s architect Ben Haller. Free, ~30 seats — registration is open, and one fully-funded travel scholarship is available.  |
| Jun 01, 2026 | Welcome to Maddie Ore (postdoc) and Ella Mancino (Technician III, 60/40 split with the Agrawal lab) — both joining the lab today! |
| Feb 02, 2026 | Our team was invited to submit a full proposal to the Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution program — CONGENER (Community Network Genomics of Ecosystem Resilience), with ~13 PIs across Cornell, UCSC, UCI, and Berkeley.  |
| Nov 01, 2025 | New paper out in Proc. Roy. Soc. B: Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics, with Jedidiah Carlson, Olivia Smith, Ruth Shaw, and Arbel Harpak.  |
| Jul 01, 2025 | Benning Lab is starting at Cornell EEB!  |