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Postdoctoral Fellow
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Postdoctoral Fellows
CWD
Chronic Wasting Disease
Surveillance Optimization Project for Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease Data Warehouse
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Free-Ranging Wildlife Pathology Fellow
White-Tailed Deer
Prions
Genetics
Wildlife
Wildlife Conservation
Wildlife Conservation Medicine
genomes
Disease Ecology
Wildlife Disease
Wildlife Disease Ecology
DNA
National Deer Association
Wildlife Health and Health Policy

Postdoctoral Fellow to Build a Transcriptome-Informed Framework for Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance

August 31, 2026
Chronic wasting disease, a neurodegenerative disease of white-tailed deer, continues to spread across North America. Dr. Chandika Rani Ganesh Babu, a 2026 Yang Postdoctoral Fellow in Wildlife Health, seeks to uncover the genetic and molecular mechanisms that influence susceptibility to CWD.
a bee a deer and a mangrove tree
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Postdoctoral Fellows
Galápagos
Mangrove Ecosystem
Chronic Wasting Disease
Disease Surveillance
Pollinators
Wild Bees
Global Food Systems
Genomics
Ecology
Biostatistics
One Health
Wildlife Health
Global Fisheries
Plastic Pollution
Conservation
White-Tailed Deer
Transcriptome-wide association study
Cornell Wildlife Health Lab
Neonicotinoids
Food Production
Pollination
Agriculture
Pesticide

Cornell Yang Center for Wildlife Health Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellows Focused on Mangrove Conservation, Wildlife Disease Surveillance, and Protecting Pollinators

August 10, 2026
The 2026 cohort of Cornell K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellows in Wildlife Health is poised to restore mangrove ecosystems in the Galápagos, improve chronic waste disease surveillance, and protect the pollinators that underpin global food systems.