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.

COVID-19: After two years of fully virtual meetings since March 2020 attracting almost 30,000 participants, meetings and courses restarted in-person in March 2022. Many of our meetings are hybrid events, but we strongly encourage talks and posters to be presented in-person to maximize feedback and networking. We are rounding out 2022 with more than 8,250 in-person attendees and 3,250 virtual attendees. 

NEWS: We congratulate Dr. Svante Paabo on winning the 2022 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on Neanderthal genomics. As a young scientist at the 1986 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on the Molecular Biology of Homo sapiens, Svante was inspired by Kary Mullis's talk on polymerase chain reaction to amplify DNA, which turned his own research interests towards the pursuit of ancient DNA. He has since attended 40+ meetings at Cold Spring Harbor, including organizing the Biology of Genomes (2004-6) and serving on Cold Spring Harbor Asia's founding Scientific Advisory Board (2009-13).