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David Jackson elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:00:18 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor David Jackson has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Having the letters FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) tacked onto the end of one’s name is among the very highest honors a scientist can achieve. It’s a mark of elite distinction. Other Fellows of the Royal...

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Fostering the future of science

Nick Wurm — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:30:20 +0000

Science comes first in STEM for good reason. Whether one pursues a career in technology, engineering, or medicine, all that work is rooted in scientific knowledge and experimentation. At ��ϳԹ��Դ, education and research go hand in hand. That’s true at every level and applied in each initiative, including the CSHL Partners for...

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CSHL’s Partners for the Future: Science’s new beginnings

Communications Department — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:30:08 +0000

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Uplands Farm: Grounds for discovery

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:30:53 +0000

At first glance, Uplands Farm—12 carefully tended acres about a mile east of the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) campus—resembles farms you might have seen before. Orderly rows of corn dominate the fields, sharing space with sorghum, eggplants, and other crops. Three greenhouses shelter young plants, extending the growing season so they can flourish in...

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You’ve never seen corn like this before

Margaret Osborne — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:30:56 +0000

Plant stem cells are crucial for the world’s food supply, animal feed, and fuel production. They lay the foundation for how plants grow. Yet, much about these mysterious building blocks remains unknown. Previous analyses have failed to locate many of the important genes that regulate how these cells function. Now, for the first time, Cold...

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CSHL high schoolers named top Regeneron Scholars

Nick Wurm — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:30:03 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Ishana Chadha and Keita Takahashi have been named among the top high school scientists in the country. Each year, about 2,500 high school seniors compete in the Regeneron Science Talent Search. These teenagers represent the future of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Chadha, a volunteer intern in CSHL’s Van Aelst...

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No Two Plants

Caroline Cosgrove — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:30:06 +0000

No Two Plants was made as part of the 2024 Symbiosis initiative presented at the Science New Wave Festival XVII and supported by the Simons Foundation." data-description="" />Every year on February 11, we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, honoring women and girls’ contributions to a field long dominated by men. Among these trailblazers is Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock, whose groundbreaking work at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) reshaped our understanding of genetics. For the filmmaking competition Symbiosis, CSHL...

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Barbara McClintock’s corn

Nick Wurm — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:30:14 +0000

ou may have heard the story behind Barbara McClintock’s 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In case you haven’t, here it is in a corn husk. McClintock earned the prestigious award for her discovery of transposons, or jumping genes. These molecules “jump” around plant and animal genomes, turning genes on and off. They’re part...

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Cocktails & Chromosomes: Best shots of 2023

Communications Department — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:30:22 +0000

After a four-year hiatus, Cocktails & Chromosomes returned in 2023. Relive the past year’s best moments and see what’s in store for 2024.

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Cocktails & Chromosomes gets corny

Communications Department — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:30:36 +0000

In the best way possible! CSHL Professor David Jackson talked about corn genetics. Plus, we gave away tickets to Tony Award-winning musical Shucked.

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CSHL’s Cocktails & Chromosomes series returns this summer

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:30:44 +0000

Cocktails & Chromosomes." data-description="" />��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Cocktails & Chromosomes series is back for the first time since 2019. This fun and free event series brings together CSHL scientists and the public for free-flowing discussions on a range of stimulating topics. Hear why ChatGPT won’t be running the 100-yard dash anytime soon. Or how new salad recipes...

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Digging up the deep-rooted secrets of perennial corn

Luis Sandoval — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:30:11 +0000

The world’s population is projected to hit 10 billion by 2050. As we inch closer each year, the conversation around food demand gets louder. The world’s natural resources are finite, and current farming practices are expected to dry up every last drop. Today, plant scientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) are in a race...

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How tweaking genes keeps corn and rice on your plate

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 18 May 2022 11:30:14 +0000

an plant scientists keep up with a changing world? It took thousands of years of breeding for farmers to transform the wild ancestors of corn and rice into the staples that we grow and consume on a massive scale. But to keep up with population growth, climate change, and other pressures, those crops will have...

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Do you have the dirt on plant research?

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:30:44 +0000

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Psst! Plants pass notes from cell to cell

Luis Sandoval — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:30:08 +0000

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Plants: RNA notes to self

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 19:00:15 +0000

Arabidopsis thaliana plant, a relative of mustard, developing properly. ��ϳԹ��Դ Professor David Jackson and his team discovered a protein required for normal development that helps plant cells exchange RNA messages. Image: Munenori Kitagawa/Jackson lab" data-description="" />How does a developing plant shoot know how, where, and when to grow? Dividing cells need to pass messages from one another to coordinate growth. In plants, important messages are packaged into RNA, which are sent from cell to cell. By studying the mustard-like plant Arabidopsis thaliana, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor David Jackson...

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Lab life: A step for students, a leap for science

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000

hen can aspiring scientists start their careers? High school students can find out first-hand whether bench or field research is for them through an internship program at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) called the Partners for the Future (PFF) program. Since starting in 1990, the program has partnered over 200 high school seniors with CSHL...

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In the Field: A Barbara McClintock–inspired novel

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:00:23 +0000

In the Field, a fictional novel based on the life of Nobel Prize–winning scientist Barbara McClintock. The Nobelist spent most of her professional career at ��ϳԹ��Դ and its predecessor institution." data-description="" />In the early 1900s, there were few women working in the male-dominated research field. But a few notable women persevered despite the challenges. Barbara McClintock was a revolutionary cytogeneticist: in 1983, she was the first woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She was recognized for her discovery of mobile genetic...

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Corn 2.0

Jasmine Lee — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:00:41 +0000

ow do you make better corn? Climate change is causing longer droughts, more intense heat, and unpredictable storms that drastically change local environments. At the same time, the human population is growing, increasing the demand for food that is cultivated on increasingly fragile lands. Crops that are biologically unprepared are at risk of being eradicated,...

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Using “guilt by association” to classify cells

Jasmine Lee — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 13:30:43 +0000

Biologists are trying to figure out what makes a cell unique in form and function. But they are not certain which components are key to making similar cells behave differently. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Jesse Gillis and his lab are tackling this problem with a new statistical method: they are analyzing the...

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