We are pleased to host the 90th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium which will focus on AI in Biology. The Symposium will begin at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, May 26th, and end with dinner on Saturday May 30th, with regular departures the following morning.
The goal of the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium (see list of topics over the past ninety years) is to capture the current state of a field at a time when that field is undergoing transformative change through new discoveries, integrating novel ideas and approaches into existing knowledge. Nowhere is that clearer than in our current times, when AI is revolutionizing so many disciplines, not least the life sciences.
The scope of the 90th Symposium is intended to cover a broad range of topics at the interface of bioscience and artificial intelligence including:
- Genomics/Transcriptomics
- Protein Structure/Design
- Drug Discovery
- Virtual Cell
- NeuroAI
- Disease Modelling & Health Care
- Plants & Agriculture
- AI Agents
- Lab Automation
- Ethics/Privacy/Biosafety
The Symposium will include nine oral sessions (invited speakers only) and two poster sessions (submitted abstracts) providing a current synthesis of the enormous impact that AI is having and will have on the life sciences. The annual Dorcas Cummings lecture will take place on Friday, May 29th. Social events throughout the Symposium provide ample opportunity for informal interactions and will include a wine-and-cheese party, a picnic, cocktails, and a banquet on Saturday, May 30, 2026.
Invited Speakers:
Stein Aerts, University of Leuven, Belgium
Mohammed AlQuraishi, Columbia University
Ziga Avsec, Google DeepMind, UK
Elham Azizi, Columbia University
Ewan Birney, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Maria Brbic, EPFL, Switzerland
Michael Bronstein, University of Oxford, UK
Edward Buckler, USDA-ARS
Charlotte Bunne, EPFL, Switzerland
Jonah Cool, Arthropic, San Francisco
Jennifer Doudna, Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Eva Dyer, University of Pennsylvania
Kyle Farh, Illumina
Surya Ganguli, Stanford University
Yunha Hwang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Kelley, Calico Life Sciences
Jacob Kimmel, NewLimit
Peter Koo, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Alexei Kulakov, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University
Su-In Lee, University of Washington
Ben Lehner, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University
Faisal Mahmood, Harvard Medical School
Mackenzie Mathis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technologye, Switzerland
Andrea Paul, The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Hoifung Poon, Microsoft Corp., USA
Stephen Quake, Stanford University/Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Alexander Rives, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Sam Rodriques, FutureHouse, Inc.
Terrence Sejnowski, The Salk Institute
Yun Song, University of California, Berkeley
Oliver Stegle, EMBL, Germany
Martin Steinegger, Seoul National University, South Korea
Andreas Tolias, Stanford University
Caroline Uhler, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
David Van Valen, California Institute of Technology
Johannes Walter, Harvard Medical School
Alexander Wiltschko, Osmo
Daniel Yamins, Stanford University
Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Ellen Zhong, Princeton University
Jian Zhou, University of Chicago
Marinka Zitnik, Harvard University
CSHL's Corporate Sponsor Program provides additional limited support for students and postdocs in need of financial support. Please apply in writing via email to Val Pakaluk and state your financial needs. Preference will be given to those who submit abstracts.
Social Media:
The designated hashtag for this meeting is #cshlsymp26. Note that you must obtain permission from an individual presenter before live-tweeting or discussing his/her talk, poster, or research results on social media. Click the Policies tab above to see our full Confidentiality & Reporting Policy.
Meeting sponsored in part by:
In-Person Fees:
Academic/Media Private Room/Private Bath Package: $1945 (Subject to availability.)
Academic/Media Private Room/Shared Bath Package: $1820
Academic Shared Room Package: $1660
Academic/Media No-Housing Package: $1240
Student Package*: $1545
Student No-Housing Package: $1125
Corporate Private Room/Private Bath Package: $2485
Corporate No-Housing Package: $1780
*Student Housing is default double occupancy. Please inquire about availability and fees to upgrade to a private room.
NOTE: We cannot guarantee housing will be on campus.
Room packages close 2 weeks before the meeting start date.