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: October 2026 - our congratulations go to the 2026 Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel. Notably, Deisseroth was a student in both the CSHL Imaging in the Nervous System course in 1995 and the Mouse Behavioral Analysis course in 2003. He has returned to Cold Spring Harbor many times to teach in our courses (especially the imaging course), or speak at our symposia and meetings here or in Suzhou/China. All three Nobel laureates have at one time or other taught in the Cold Spring Harbor Ion Channels course. In total, more than 125 Nobel laureates have participated in the CSHL's Meetings and Courses Program over the years.
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). Interviews with some of the speakers are available on our YouTube channel.
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.
IN MEMORIAM: It is with considerable sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our colleague Dr. Terri Grodzicker in early-mid September 2026. Along with her role as Editor-in-Chief of Genes & Development, Terri was a pivotal force in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Meetings & Courses Program over more than three decades. She'll be remembered for her strong support of young scientists across the spectrum of the biological sciences, and for her astringent wit and strong convictions about good science and teaching. Because of her twin roles, Terri was widely known across many biological disciplines, and she will be sorely missed as friend and colleague to so many of us.