Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
is a leading international center for research and education. As part of its mission, each year CSHL organizes 25-30 scientific conferences, 20 Banbury Center meetings and 30 advanced technical science courses, with organizers, instructors and participants from all over the world.
NEWS: With the news from Stockholm in early October '25, we added an additional three Nobel prize winners to the long list of laureates (120+) who have participated in CSHL's Meetings and Courses Program, including the joint 2025 winners in Physiology and Medicine. Mary Brunkow (now Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle) attended seven CSHL mouse or genome meetings between 1988 and 2002, while Fred Ramsdell (now Sonoma Biotherapeutics) attended the 2013 Symposium on Immunity & Tolerance. Shimon Sakaguchi (Osaka University) participated in 3 previous Cold Spring Harbor Asia immunology meetings (including as organizer in 2015), and gave the keynote talk at the 2025 CSHA meeting on Immunoreceptor Signaling and Therapeutic Applications in Awaji/Japan in mid-November just a few weeks after winning his prize. Our congratulations go to all the 2025 laureates.
AI IN BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 's annual Symposium on Quantitative Biology celebrated its 90th year and addressed the topic of AI in Biology, attracting over 450 in-person participants and more than 200 virtual participants. Opening night talks included Jennifer Doudna / UC Berkeley (Design of functional unnatural RNA-guided nucleases), Alexander Rives / CZI (Language modeling materializes a world model of protein biology), Pushmeet Kohli / Google Deepmind (Leveraging AI to advance biology) and Hoifung Poon / Microsoft Corp. (Towards virtual patient—AI for accelerating medical discovery). The video archive of this fascinating meeting including ~50 talks and 15 interviews is available on demand through August 14 on a fee basis.
PHISHING SCAM ALERT: Please be aware of spam email messages circulating that are not associated with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) but appear to offer help arranging accommodation at CSHL. The phishing scam asks for information regarding arrival and departure dates, and may include a docusign document requiring a credit card to guarantee your spot for the upcoming meeting at CSHL. This is should be ignored and deleted, as should any other third party spammers who present themselves as being involved in organizing any elements of the CSHL meeting, including housing or travel.