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New Athletics Director Appointed

By ANGELA BUNAY Sun Managing Editor

Nicki Webber Moore is set to become Cornell’s first female Meakem Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education when she begins the position in January 2023.

With Moore’s appointment, Cornell joins four other Ivy league universities with female athletic directors. Brown University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University currently have

female athletic directors.

“I am very proud to be named as Cornell’s first woman A.D. [athletic director] during this 50th anni versary year of Title IX [a 1972 law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded schools],” Moore said. “It’s a step that is aligned closely with the founders’ original ‘any person, any study’ vision for the University.”

Moore’s appointment comes after the retirement of previous athletic director Andy Noel, who served

Car-less Students Struggle

Cornell is well-integrated into the Ithaca communi ty, with Collegetown with in walking distance and the Ithaca Commons and com mercial zones a bus ride away. Despite this, many students on campus cite a lack of con venient and affordable gro cery options near campus — and the ensuing high costs.

Students on campus can find Anabel’s Grocery, locat ed in Anabel Taylor Hall, which offers locally sourced, fresh produce “at or below Wegmans prices,” according to their website. However, the student-run grocery store has limited purchasing power and therefore cannot provide the fullest selection of food. Instead, they offer mostly plant-based whole foods, as well as a subscription service for cookware, citing a lack of fresh food in a college diet.

Lynah Rink Reduces Public Skating

By GABRIELLA PACITTO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Despite the creation of a petition to increase open skate times during the weekends and after school hours, Lynah Rink has recently reduced public skating hours. Since the publication of the petition for more hours, the Rink’s hours have steadily decreased. Lynah hosts public skating exclusively on the weekdays, for just one hour per day. In the past six weeks, Lynah has averaged three hours for open skating across three days a week, usually around noon, when many students are in class. Within the same period, only two weeks had recorded four hours of public skate time.

In an interview with The Sun, Anita Brenner, deputy director of Athletics for Intercollegiate Athletics

and Senior Woman administrator, commented in late October that Lynah Rink was working to implement public times on Sunday once proper staffing was available.

At the time of publication, Sunday’s open skating hours have yet to be put into effect.

According to Brenner, intramural ice hockey has no plans to return at this time due to issues with securing finances and dependency on human resources.

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Aside from Anabel’s, there are two Aldi locations, a Wegmans location, a Trader Joe’s location, a Tops location and two GreenStar locations in Ithaca. However, with the exception of the Collegetown GreenStar — a small grocery store that exclusively sells organic food, which comes at higher rates than non-or ganic options — there is no grocery store within reason able walking distance near campus for the many stu dents in Ithaca without cars.

According to Google Maps, the nearest grocery store from campus by bus is Tops, accessible by TCAT’s Route 30, which has been experiencing service cuts due to staffing shortages

and supply chain issues, as well as taking detours due to the repaving of College Avenue, resulting in the new route not serving the heart of Collegetown. Traveling to Wegmans or Trader Joe’s by public transit requires taking the Route 15 bus, which only runs once an hour on weekdays; according to Google Maps, the fast est route to Wegmans still takes roughly half an hour.

The price of groceries in Ithaca is 0.8 percent higher than New York State’s aver age and 4.6 percent higher than the national average, even though BestPlaces.net considers Ithaca’s total cost of living to be 1.6 percent below the national average and 23.1 percent less than New York State’s average. New York State’s aver age prices also take into account the extreme outlier of New York City, which is significantly pricier than both the rest of New York State and the country.

According to the results from a survey conducted by Basic Needs Coalition — a student-run organiza tion advocating for greater access to basic necessities at Cornell — one-third of Cornell students have dif ficulty accessing food.

Katie Go ’22, an employ ee at Anabel’s Grocery, said that food access was diffi cult for her without a car.

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Glass ceiling | Nicki Moore will become the first woman to serve as Director of Athletics and Physical Education at Cornell starting in January 2023.

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Reduced hours | Students enjoy skating at Lynah Rink during its open hours on Nov. 29.

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No car, tough luck | Trader Joe's on Feb. 19, 2021. Students without a car on campus need to travel far to grocery shop.

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By JONATHAN MONG Sun Staff Writer

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A LISTING OF FREE CAMPUS EVENTS

Cornell Reproductive Sciences Center Seminar Series: “The Fruits of Chromosomal Conflict” — Jacob Mueller, University of Michigan 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Corson/Mudd Hall Morrison Room A106

“What Serves You”: Charting Black Girl Spaces for Wellness Through Spirituality, Resistence and Homeplace 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Africana Studies and Research Center Multipurpose Room

Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: “Property, Revolution and Music Futures” Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden 4:30 p.m., Virtual Event

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Swahili Contemporary Literature: The Role of African Languages in Higher Education 10 a.m. - Noon, Virtual Event

Meatless Menu Tasting at Café Jennie 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., The Cornell Store

Victims or Solutions?

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Retirement and Beyond: Endowed Employees 10 a.m., Virtual Event

“The Nerds, The Cool and The Central: Peer Education and Teenage Pregnancy” — Emily Breza, Harvard University 11:15 a.m., Mann Library 102

“A Fair Day’s Pay for a Fair Day’s Work: Optimal Tax Design as Redistributional Arbitrage”— Nicolas Werquin, Toulouse School of Economics 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Uris Hall 498

How Thai (and Burmese) Torturers Talk Nick Cheesman 12:30 p.m., Kahin Center

The Fight for indigenous Stewardship and Leadership in Climate Action 12:25 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Virtual Event

Club Q Candleligh Vigil 5 p.m. - 6 p.m., Arts Quad

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Indienous justice is climate justice | During this virtual event, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering Faculty Fellow Michael Charles will speak on the impact of climage change on Indigenous Peoples, as well as the impact of Indigenous communities and advocates on the protection and preservation of their people and the environment.

Student-Run Chapter of Callisto Coming to Cornell

Non-proft’s sexual violence survivor empowerment platform to be launched on campus in January

By ROXANA BEHDAD Sun Contributor

Callisto, a nonprofit organization with the goal of empowering students who have experienced sexual violence, is expected to arrive to Cornell’s cam pus on Jan. 23.

This organization offers a twofold plan to aid student survivors. Students entering the platform are first met with an encrypted record form — a document that helps to reduce trau ma by utilizing information gathered from the Foresnic Experiental Trauma

Jessica Harris ’25 is the head of the organization’s branch at cornell. Harris and eight other members have worked closely with Sexual Assault Prevention and Safety Group to bring Callisto to Cornell.

Interview, while also recording the incident of sexual violence.

Students using Callisto are then placed within a matching system, which asks survivors to input char acteristic data about the perpetra

tor. If two victims identify the same perpetrator, they are connected to a third-party attorney, also known as the “Legal Operations Counselor.” The attorney is able to provide assistance on possible next steps for the victim, including aiding the victim in pursu ing legal charges or suggesting involve ment with the press.

At the forefront of the Callisto mission statement is the fact that 90 percent of college sexual assaults are committed by repeat offenders, according to a study from the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. With this in mind, the Callisto team at Cornell hopes the organization will not only increase accountability surrounding sexual violence, but also empower survivors by providing a platform in which they may be connected with other victims of the same perpetra tor.

Currently, Callistso is present on forty campuses nationwide, including Stanford University and the University of Southern California. Jessica Harris ’25 is the head of the organization’s branch at Cornell. Harris and eight other members have worked closely with Sexual Assault Prevention and Safety Group to bring Callisto to Cornell.

According to Harris, SAPS is a com mittee heavily focused on issues related to the Greek Life system. While Harris

makes clear that sexual assault is not merely an issue within fraternities and sororities, she does hope to use the Greek system “as an education tool.” Specifically, alongside the launch of Callisto, she hopes to educate fraterni ties on issues of consent.

The launch of Callisto is timely amid the current ban on fraternity

Carter said that while many survivors may feel uncomfort able speaking to administration about their experiences, they are much more likely to “turn to a friend, or turn to someone who they have something in common with.

sponsored events at Cornell. Avery Carter ’25, a member of the Callisto team at Cornell, stated that even as there may be no way to completely eliminate the issue of sexual violence on college campuses, Callisto is a means to help students by providing the platform to raise awareness sur rounding this pertinent issue.

Callisto’s mission to provide ser

Moore First Woman Athletics Director

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in the role for 40 years. Noel announced his plans to retire in March, and said he would con tinue to serve in the role until the University would announce a successor.

The search for a new athletic director began over the sum mer, and now Moore will begin her duties on Jan. 17, 2023.

Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi announced the appointment on Wednesday afternoon to the Department of Athletics and Physical Education, voicing his excite ment for bringing Moore on board.

“[Moore] is a seasoned, col laborative and strategic leader who is deeply committed to the success of student-athletes both within and outside of the com petitive arena,” Lombardi said. “I look forward to seeing all she does to build upon Cornell’s rich tradition of intercolle giate athletic excellence and to amplify the tremendous impact that a robust recreational and physical education program has on the academic and personal growth of all students.”

Moore has 18 years of expe rience in athletic administrative roles at numerous universities including the University of Oklahoma, the University of North Carolina and Colgate University. She said she is hon ored to be appointed for the role.

Moore was previously rec ognized by Women Leaders in College Sports as the 2022 Football Championship Subdivision Executive of the

Year, and recently served as the president of the FCS Athletics Directors Association.

Moore holds a bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. in coun seling psychology from the University of Missouri, where she was a four-time captain on the track and cross-country teams. She is also an Academic All-American and the inaugu ral president of the StudentAthlete Advisory Committee. Additionally, Moore has earned postgraduate scholarships from both the NCAA and the Big 12 Conference.

“I can’t wait to get to work,”

“Cornell is such an excit ing opportunity, as a place committed to true excel lence in both academics and athletics where student-athletes can pursue all of their aspirations at the very highest level.”

exciting opportunity, as a place committed to true excellence in both academics and athletics where student-athletes can pur sue all of their aspirations at the very highest level.”

In taking the new position, Moore will leave her role as

“[Moore is a seasoned, collaborative and strate gic leader.”

V.P. Ryan Lombardi

vice president and director of athletics at Colgate University, where she leads an athletics program that includes 25 NCAA Division I varsity ath letics programs, as well as club sports, intramural and recre ational programs.

Moore noted that her two highest priorities as athletics director at Cornell will be to promote diversity, equity and inclusion and promote the mental health and well-being of student-athletes and the cam pus community.

vices to Cornell’s campus is proceeding without administrative aid. According to Harris, Callisto advocates at other schools have run into pushback from university administration on sexual violence aid initiatives such as this platform. Harris made the final choice to launch Callisto without the help of the administration, hoping that this platform would be “for students, run by students.”

An entirely student-run platform may also increase reports of incidents of sexual violence, according to Carter. Carter said that while many survivors may feel uncomfortable speaking to administration about their experienc es, they are much more likely to “turn to a friend, or turn to someone who they have something in common with.” In this way, Callisto anticipates to spread accountability on Cornell’s campus.

Nearing the launch, Callisto is holding meetings with other clubs in hopes of promoting the platform to students around campus. The launch stresses the difficulty of reporting sex ual violence through Title IX. In light of this difficulty, Callisto hopes to become a service that not only aids victims, but also empowers them in the process.

Roxana Behdad can be reached at rb823@cornell.edu.

Moore said. “Cornell is such an

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Eatonomics

Government Recommended Food Portions

By KYLE ROTH Sun Staff Writer

We’ve all heard of unwanted or unexpected weight gain upon entering college. The freshman 15, sophomore 30 and so on may linger on the minds of many students living away from home, possibly for the first time, and armed with unlimited meal swipes and a persistent desire for all combinations of delicious mouth-wa tering sweet and savory foods that just “hit the spot right.” Especially on appetite’s triggered by walking around all day, countless study sessions and non stop social events in an explorative period of life.

Thanks to the meal plan system along with our valuable dining staff, breathtaking amounts of food are conveniently available hot and ready for students at any operating hour without the need to cook, or even wash dishes. After all, Niche pinpoints Cornell Dining at a spectacular #15 in America based on the consistent diversity and quality of our food.

But how can hungry Cornellians be more con scious of the quantity and type of food that they eat on a daily basis at the plethora of Cornell’s cafes and dining halls? Here, we will explore the govern ment recommendations for structuring your plate along with the thoughts of a registered dietician and a nutrition major.

The USDA Food Guidance System myplate.

gov offers comprehensive and individualized diet suggestions based on age, sex, height, weight and activity level. Myplate.gov works to integrate the five food groups of vegetables, fruits, grains, pro tein and dairy into everyday diets. “Make half of your plate fruits and vegetables,” “Make half of your grains whole grains” and “Vary your pro tein routine” are just a few of the recommen dations to keep in mind when loading up your plate.

Notably, myplate.gov encourages a movement towards healthier and balanced eating that is not about haves and have nots, but rather about the overall, general composition of what is eaten. The website also dives into greater detail regarding the health benefits of each food group, serving sizes, and general nutrition facts.

Christine Goulet is a registered dietician nutri tionist with the WIC Program — a USDA funded supplemental nutrition program for low-income women and children below the age of five who has worked very closely with the myplate.gov model since its commencement in an effort to target pub lic health.

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Here at The Sun, we have documented a steep uptick in campus and political activity this year. We covered the return of beloved Cornell traditions, including Dragon Day, Slope Day and hockey nights at Lynah Rink. We reported on groundbreaking unions in Ithaca and vital elections, both local and nationwide. We covered student protests for global peace, and we saw Cornell drop 2-yearold pandemic restrictions. All Ithacans have done their part to restore and improve the world we live in. You’ve kept us busy recording your tireless work and your historic achievements.

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Living in Hockeyland: On the Documentary and Cornell

Cornell’s homecoming football game to a preseason hockey game and you can clearly see the importance of hockey here. It’s an especially relevant flm that all Cornellians should watch, as it will give you a better appreciation for the game and those who play it.

Brendan Kempff Slope Side

The saying —“It’s too cold out here. It’s too cold in Minnesota.”

You’ve heard this a thousand times, right? Except the place isn’t usually the upper Midwest, but the arctic tun dra of an Ivy League school in Upstate New York.

Hockeyland, a new documentary that bills itself as the hockey version of Friday Night Lights, recently became available for streaming. Instead of the sweltering gridiron of Texas high school football, we’re introduced to the equally fanatic hockey culture that persists in Northern Minnesota.

Cornellians unfamiliar with hockey might scratch their head at how crazy people go over the sport. Tis documenta ry will change that. It paints hockey in its grittiest and most honest form, something that is often missing when you see the NHL on TV.

Like the small communities featured in the flm, hockey is the only sport in town at Cornell. Compare the crowds at

Much like the story from which Hockeyland is inspired, there’s a lot more at play than simply hockey. Te setting is the Iron Range, a region in Northern Minnesota that has been in economic jeopardy for decades. Once the base of a thriving mining industry, the area has seen jobs and people disappearing for many years. Te documentary follows two parallel teams, one of which is a storied high school team on the rocks. Following this season the high school, EvelethGilbert, will be merged with a neighbor. It’s the result of decades of economic decline in the small town, lending an air of urgency to the season.

One thing is at the center of all of these players’ lives: hockey. Tey eat, breathe and sleep it. And it’s easy to see why. Te documentary portrays an area of the country frigidly cold, with shots of the landscape that would put weather-complaining Cornellians to shame.

But more than that, the documentary shows some of the special sides of the game. Tere’s camaraderie, a true brand of brothers fghting the bullies from across the state. Te

Te real focus of the documentary, however, is the play ers from both teams who we get to know in-depth. At frst they seem to hit archetypes, such as the rising national star dealing with the future or the lowkey player who’s a secret

region of Minnesota is the home of some of the best hockey players in the country, and the level of play is impressive. Watching these kids battle it out week after week will get you inspired to head to Lynah on a Friday night.

genius. Te documentary shines, however, by painting a more in-depth picture of these players’ personal lives.

On a larger scale, the documentary depicts a community far diferent than the one we inhabit. Cornell is a pinnacle of privilege, a member of an organization that’s code for American elitism. Understanding the sport of hockey in a diferent setting may help Cornellians learn about the rest of America.

Te two teams documented tell diferent, but all too familiar economic stories. Unlike the struggling Eveleth, rival Hermantown is often displayed through its gleaming ice rink. It’s a town facing very diferent economic prospects, speaking to the growing economic disparity between towns across the nation.As someone from “fy-over country,” it’s clear that most people at Cornell struggle to understand the economic changes occurring between the coasts. Te documentary paints a compelling picture of what’s been occurring economically through the lens of sport.

You can fnd Hockeyland streaming on Amazon Prime, as well as a few other streaming websites. If you’re looking for something to do before heading to Lynah for a Friday night game, I’d recommend watching it. It will give you a greater appreciation for the sport you are about to watch and those who play it — including our Big Red.

Don’t Put Your Health on the Back Burner

but failed to realize the huge role that managing my own health was going to play in it all.

Oftentimes, when pressures are surging and stress is looming, sleep becomes lower and lower on one’s priority list; our health gets put on the back burner.

Isabella DeLew

During my frst semester here, I fell right into this. I was facing new challenges and pressures that I had never experienced in high school. Fitting the typical college student norm, my sleep and health took a backseat in my daily life as they seemed to be of the least importance compared to everything else I was juggling at the time.

About halfway through my frst semes ter, in the midst of my soccer season, I began to notice that I was abnormally tired and sore, taking practically triple the time to recover from exertion and activi ties than it took my peers.

address these new issues I was experienc ing. When I got home for winter break, my mom fnally decided it was time to bring me in to see my pediatrician. I dis cussed what I had been feeling with him and so we began what I didn’t know at the time was going to be a long and discour aging journey.

I jumped from doctor to doctor, each of them drawing blood and performing a variety of diferent tests all to lead to the same result: they didn’t see anything wrong. Te only consistency to this whole process was having my parents by my side throughout.

mune patients, and onset of many illness es begin in the college years. Additionally, many individuals are predisposed to auto immune disorders, which can be activated by several diferent factors, one of which is increased levels of stress. Surely, the stress of transitioning from high school to college life is enough to provide the increase in stress levels necessary to acti vate an autoimmune disorder.

Such is a conversation we’ve not had nearly enough at Cornell, and on other campuses across the country.

The transition of moving away from home to one’s freshman year of college is arguably one of the most unique and challenging experiences a person will face during their lifetime.

Stressors grow from day-to-day worries such as “what am I going to have for dinner?” and “what homework do I have due tomorrow” to much greater fnancial, social and academic responsibilities, all the while maintaining one’s health and well-being. Yet for some,add in the com mitment of playing a Division I sport, and pressures and stress levels are likely to reach an all-time high.

Upon entering my freshman year here at Cornell, I was so excited to be recruited to play soccer at such an excellent aca demic institution. I expected high pres sure and to be juggling numerous com mitments, just as I had in high school,

While I believed physical exertion and lack of sleep to be contributing to what I was experiencing at the time, I still felt that it was not solely responsible for what I was feeling. Te fatigue persisted throughout the semester, and I found myself reliant on naps just to get through the day.

My friends began to tease me for this, sliding in comments where they could: “Aw Bella hasn’t had her daily nap today…no wonder she’s cranky and tired.” It was upsetting to feel picked on for something I felt I couldn’t control. No matter how much I slept or how I fueled and took care of myself, something always felt of

As the semester went on, nothing improved. I had been to Cornell Health before for minor colds and illnesses but didn’t have great experiences, as I felt that I never got my problems resolved. Tat said, I didn’t even want to attempt scheduling an appointment with them to

We went down so many di f erent paths, with each doctor exploring a dif ferent organ or body system that they believed was the origin of the issue, yet all these paths still showed that nothing was wrong. Hearing that time and time again was frustrating to say the least, and ultimately defeating.

Tis cycle repeated for nearly a year before fnally coming to an end with a physician who is still my primary care provider today. She was the only doctor who was relentless in her eforts to fgure out what was wrong. Unlike others, I truly felt that she believed that what I was feeling was more than just “being tired,” refected in the numerous visits, phone calls and even text messages back and forth about how I was feeling.

Ultimately, I ended up being diag nosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an auto immune disorder. To date, I have been taking medication every single morning since my diagnosis and haven’t felt that same sense of fatigue since. Refecting on the experience, I am grateful for the unrelenting determination of my current doctor to fnd a solution to my health problem.

Women make up eight in ten autoim

Recently, my friends and I started looking into diferent healthcare apps we could download on our phones. We came across Headspace, Calm and Caraway, which all ofer diferent types of con venient care. Had I known about and utilized these when I was a freshman, I think my whole experience would have been diferent; having access to care when I needed it most, instead of having to wait until I was home.

Fast forward to where I am today, having been on medication for two years now, I am lucky to no longer feel help lessly tired. Without those lousy feelings holding me back, I have been able to grow into the person and leader that I am today. Specifcally, within my soccer team, being healthy allows me to perform my best on the feld and serve as a leader for others. As a captain, I need to be a role model for everyone on my team, and even more importantly for the frst-years who are now undergoing the same transition I faced not long ago. Watching them juggle the same pressures and stressors as I did my freshman year, I hope to be able to encourage them to put their health at the forefront of their priorities, alongside academics and soccer, as it will have a greater impact on their new college lives than they have even yet to realize.

Isabella DeLew is a senior in the College of Agri culture and Life Sciences. Comments can be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs periodically this semester.

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The real focus of the documentary, however, is the players from both teams who we get to know in-depth.

On a larger scale, the documentary depicts a community far different than the one we inhabit.

DEMON FOX

Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the num bers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wiki pedia.org/wiki/ Sudoku)

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Mr. Gnu

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C.U. Study Finds New Predictor of Postpartum Depression

By BROOKE GREENFIELD Sun Staff Writer

Autophagy, the process by which the body recy cles damaged cell parts into fully functioning cell parts, may be dampened in women with postpartum depression, according to a recent Cornell Weill study done in collaboration with John Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Virginia Health.

Old cell components such as mitochondria and ribosomes often function inefficiently, and may end up developing defects that require removal while new parts are made.

“This same process has been implicated in things like Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative dis orders. Plaques form, and the process of autophagy is unable to get rid of the misfolded proteins,” said Sarven Sabunciyan, assis tant professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Up to 70 percent of new mothers face the “baby blues,” a temporary condi tion experienced one to two weeks after childbirth. If symptoms of true postpar

tum depression arise toward the end of pregnancy or within four weeks after giving birth, the condition is normally diagnosed and treated with a combination of psychotherapy or antide pressants.

“Hormonal shifts hap pen at childbirth, but only some women are vulner able to those shifts,” said Dr. Lauren Osborne, Vice Chair of clinical research for Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell. These hormonal shifts are due to change in relationship with a partner in becoming a mother along with enor mous sleep deprivation.

One in eight women experience postpartum depression. Osborne’s research in the field focuses on determining the biolog ical link in the hormonal system that makes certain women vulnerable to these hormonal changes that all women experience.

“Our theory is that not being able to use this essen tially cellular recycling sys tem made women somehow more vulnerable to develop ing postpartum depression, connected with hormon al shifts or other immune system changes throughout

pregnancy and postpar tum,” Osborne said.

Her previous research found that extracellular RNA communication is heavily involved in several biological processes, preg nancy included. The study looked at extracellular ves icles in the blood and how the mRNA communication differs between women who do and do not become ill postpartum.

Extracellular vesicles are lipid-bound vesicles in the membrane that are released to transport “cargo” such as DNA and RNA. This is a form of communication within the cell, and it is increased during pregnan cy. According to the study, mRNA associated with autophagy were reduced in patients with postpartum depression, establishing a connection between the lack of “cell cleanup” and postpartum depression.

Prior research also identi fies that antidepressants play a role in increasing autoph agy. However, many women with pre-existing depression will unnecessarily stop tak ing their medication while pregnant, creating a large group of people who are significantly vulnerable

to a relapse of symptoms such as depressed mood or fatigue. There is about a 65 to 75 percent chance these women will relapse during pregnancy, according to Osborne.

“So many women are reluctant about taking medication during preg nancy and postpartum, and because lots of doctors aren’t educated on the safety of those medications, we have a really vulnerable group of women who don’t get iden

tified and treated,” she said.

Osborne’s research is working to identify these women to provide doctors with a test to diagnose vul nerability to postpartum depression in its early stag es. Her team is looking to develop a test that can be easily implemented in the clinic such as a blood test that can identify the vulner able group of women at risk of becoming ill. This will allow physicians to get sick patients access to care early.

“We have some very good results… [but] we want to look at more people, a diverse group of women from different ethnicities and races,” Sabunciyan said. “It’s not going to be in the next week, but we’re hop ing, within a decade or so, we’re going to be having a test available.”

New Possibilities to Link Clonal Cell Mutations With Disease

By JESSICA DAI Sun Staff Writer

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have finally found a way to correlate mutations with observable characteristics in human cells, taking a step towards understanding how diversified mutations in cells may lead to disease.

The researchers obtained blood stem cells from the bone marrow of patients with multi ple myeloma — a cancer that forms in white blood cells and is found to have large blood cell clonal outgrowths in which each cell can have different

mutations. They then mapped the gene activity and phenotyp ic detail to characterize a clonal outgrowth mutation, or a large population of cells with the same mutation.

Typically, all cells in the body contain the same genetic information. However, as cells divide, numerous mutations can occur, potentially leading to a massive clonal outgrowth or clonal mosaicism mutations, where replicated cells each con tain different genetic informa tion. While clonal outgrowths are commonly thought to be associated with malignant transformation, many are also

linked with nonmalignant dis ease.

“Inflammation in the gut tends to select particular clones that are more resistant to the inflammatory environment of the gut,”explained Prof. Dan Landau, physiology and bio physics. “Metabolic disorders in the liver tend to select clones that have genes that protect them.”

These clonal outgrowth mutations undergo selection where only the most fit cells survive with their genetic com position. For some cells, this can lead to normal-appearing tissue having mutations that are

likely to have a relationship not just with cancer but also with other diseases such as cardiovas cular disease, Landau said.

The traditional method to characterize clonal outgrowth cells is to compare mutated cells with normal cells. However, due to the similarity of mutat ed cells to normal cells and the variability of mutations from person to person, it has been difficult to use these methods to study clonal mosaicism in humans.

To better understand clon al mosaicism mutations, Weill Cornell researchers devel oped innovative “single-cell multi-omics” techniques to detect genomic and phenotyp ic attributes of cells with the DNMT3A mutation in bone marrow cells that can develop into all types of blood cells. This method allows one cell with a specific mutation to be analyzed,identified, and com pared with the same patient’s normal, healthy cell, providing a perfect comparison without variability between patients.

“We were able, for the first time, see these clonal mosa icism mutations and actually understand what they are doing to the cells to make them grow faster,” said Landau.

This is especially significant since DNMT3A mutant cells appear and function the same as normal healthy cells but have been thought to indicate an early stage of acute myeloid leu

kemia development. With this new technique, scientists were able to observe new findings.

“We found that the [DNMT3A] mutation is caus ing the stem cell to differentiate in a particular way. The muta tion seemed to skew towards myeloid cells… and in terms of the transcriptional state, which was dysregulated, we saw sig natures of inflammation,” said co-author Prof. Anna Nam, pathology and laboratory med icine.

Other breakthroughs the researchers discovered using this technology also include finding that mutant stem cells were more likely to mature into red blood cells and blood-clot ting platelet-producing cells. This sheds light on the mutant cell’s correlation with cardiovas cular disease.

In the future, Landau and Nam both hope that single-cell multi-omic techniques can be used to correlate molecular sig natures in clonal outgrowths with various diseases.

“We’re interested to see dif ferent mutations in different genes [in clonal outgrowth cells] and how they utilize unique pathways for fitness advantage,” said Nam. “[But] we’re [also] interested in how we get rid of these clonal stem cells before they become can cerous.”

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Postpartum | Impaired cell-cleanup, a biological process also known as autophagy, has been found to be dampened in women who experience postpartum depression.