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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, and quantitative biology. [2] It is located in Laurel Hollow on Long Island , New York.
The school was formerly named after James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and then president of the laboratory, shortly after its founding.On July 1, 2020, the board of trustees voted to return the name of the school to the "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences" because of Watson's views on race.
Leemor Joshua-Tor was born in Rehovot, Israel.She received a B.S. from Tel-Aviv University in chemistry, then served for three years in the Israeli Defense Forces.She earned a PhD in chemistry in the lab of Joel Sussman from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1991, then did postdoctoral research at Caltech.
Anthony M. Zador is an American neuroscientist and the Alle Davis Harris Professor of Biology and Chair of Neuroscience at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. [1] He is a co-founder, in 2004, of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) conference, and of the NAISYS (Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems) meeting about the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
Zachary B. Lippman (born 1978) is an American plant biologist and the Jacob Goldfield Professor of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, [2] [3] a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and a member of the National Academy of Sciences [4] Lippman has used gene editing technology to investigate the control of fruit production in various crops.
Bruce William Stillman AO FAA FRS (born 16 October 1953) is a biochemist and cancer researcher who has served as the Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) since 1994 and President since 2003. He also served as the Director of its NCI-designated Cancer Center for 25 years from 1992 to 2016. [2]
Michael Howard Wigler (born September 3, 1947, in New York) is an American molecular biologist who has directed a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1978 and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is best known for developing methods to genetically engineer animal cells and his contributions to cancer, genomics and ...
Alexei Koulakov is a theoretical physicist and a neuroscientist.He is the Charles Robertson Professor of Neuroscience at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. [1]Koulakov's group has used mathematics and theoretical physics to explore the brain, with focus on neural computation, brain development, and the evolution of brain architecture for optimal function.