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Mind-blowing neuroscience research

Communications Department — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:30:19 +0000

The brain is the most complex and powerful part of the human body. When things are working as they should, we don’t notice at all. However, any number of conditions can disrupt healthy brain function. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) neuroscientists focus on understanding how neural connections in the brain translate into behavior. Their research...

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A perception quiz to blow your mind

Communications Department — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:30:40 +0000

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Anne Churchland donates $50K prize to CSHL student

Nick Wurm — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:30:49 +0000

“I would not have become the scientist I am today were it not for my time at Cold Spring Harbor,” says Anne Churchland. The pioneering neuroscientist has received the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 2025 Pradel Research Award. Now at the University of California, Los Angeles, Churchland credits her time at ��ϳԹ��Դ...

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A hearing aid for … your nose?

Nick Wurm — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:30:56 +0000

AI generated voice with Florin Albeanu’s actual voice Kaboom! The first time most of us hear the sound of an explosion is in the movies. Encountering the sound in the real world—even at a distance—has a profoundly different effect. Why? It’s all about context. How we react to sounds and other sensory stimuli depends on...

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The CSHL School of Biological Sciences’ class of 2024

Communications Department — Sun, 05 May 2024 22:00:34 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences (SBS) takes an innovative approach to advanced science education. Graduates of the doctoral program go on to pursue diverse careers. This year, the SBS awarded 11 Ph.D. degrees. Here, members of the class of 2024 reflect on their time and experiences at CSHL. Salomé Carcy...

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President’s essay: Bringing bold visions to life

Communications Department — Fri, 26 May 2023 11:30:08 +0000

The art of high-impact research, which is at the core of ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), is to pursue important questions, follow unanticipated leads, and be bold in crafting new ideas. In this way, we challenge our researchers to move science into new frontiers. While our scientists have freedom to pursue their ideas, they are...

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Follow your nose: Tracking the brain’s smell circuits

Communications Department — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:00:55 +0000

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Mapping the path from smell to perception

Jennifer Michalowski — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:00:04 +0000

Our sense of smell has a powerful effect on our behavior and emotions. Aromas can evoke vivid memories of the past or warn us of a smoldering fire. Yet to neuroscientists, smell remains the most mysterious of our five senses. Once the nose detects something, how does the brain determine what it means? Scientists aren’t...

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Sniffing out the brain’s smelling power

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:00:48 +0000

Since their discovery over 100 years ago, neurons in the brain’s olfactory bulb called tufted cells have been difficult to study. The close proximity between tufted cells and other neurons called mitral cells, restricted the ability to dissect each individual neuron’s activity. By leveraging fluorescent genetic markers and new optical imaging technologies, Cold Spring Harbor...

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Building on 150 years of neuroanatomy

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 14:30:38 +0000

Learn about some of the milestones in neuroanatomy history with our interactive timeline, and read more about CSHL contributions in recent years. In 1873, an Italian biologist named Camillo Golgi stained nerve cells at high resolution. He thought neurons formed a branched and cohesive network and were not individual cells. Fifteen years later, Santiago Ramón...

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Think a census of humans is hard? Try counting their brain cells!

Jasmine Lee — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:00:02 +0000

Read about CSHL’s contributions to neuroanatomy in recent years, and learn more about related milestones in our interactive timeline. How does the human brain work? For the last 150 years, researchers have tried to assess its function from its structure, but the answer is still elusive. On October 7, 2021, scientists reached a major milestone,...

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Singing mice will teach us about our own conversations

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 13:30:37 +0000

Arkarup Banerjee joins ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) in November 2020 as an assistant professor, working in the field of neuroscience. He studies how the brain processes sensory information to produce motor outputs enabling vocal communication. He focuses on the Alston’s singing mouse, a species of mouse with the interesting behavior of calling back and...

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There’s more to smell than meets the nose

Charlotte Hu — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:17:51 +0000

How do animals smell? Scientists haven’t quite decoded it yet, but researchers at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) have found that it’s different from previously proposed. To understand how the brain processes and interprets smells, CSHL neuroscientists Florin Albeanu, Alexei Koulakov and colleagues are putting past odor classifying models to the test, and they’re discovering...

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Quantifying how the brain smells

Charlotte Hu — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:00:05 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Scientists haven’t quite decoded how animals smell, but researchers at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) found that it’s different from previously thought. To understand how the brain processes and interprets smells, CSHL neuroscientists Florin Albeanu, Alexei Koulakov and colleagues Honggoo Chae, Daniel Kepple, Walter Bast from CSHL, and Venkatesh Murthy...

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Watson School alumni spotlights

Communications Department — Sun, 19 May 2019 21:30:53 +0000

This year, the Watson School of Biological Sciences celebrates the 20th anniversary of its first entering class of six Ph.D. candidates in September 1999. At CSHL, students are introduced to a broad and multi-disciplinary way to study biological sciences, and think critically to solve problems in their research. The school’s mission has remained the same...

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What’s that smell? Neuroscientists are figuring it out

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:15:31 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Florin Albeanu and Professor Alexei Koulakov have received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative Research Award for an innovative neuroscience research project on the olfactory system, one of the basic senses that is still quite mysterious. The project will study how the brain interprets smell, an...

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Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

Peter Tarr — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:07:30 +0000

At noon every Tuesday from September through June, scenes from a revolution in neuroscience are playing out at ��ϳԹ��Դ. Week after week, over 100 scientists cram themselves into a ground-floor meeting room in the Beckman Laboratory. It’s standing-room only as everyone in the Neuroscience Program settles in to hear details of the...

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New leadership roles in BRAIN Initiative and International Brain Lab reflect CSHL’s excellence in neuroscience

Peter Tarr — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:30:33 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) yesterday announced multiple grant awards totaling $50 million per year for five years to fund cutting-edge research on the brain. The project, part of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), establishes a Center and a...

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DIY neuroscience opens up a universe of possibilities in Transylvania

Andrea Alfano — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 18:27:28 +0000

Too many scientists become limited by the availability of expensive, sophisticated tools, according to CSHL Associate Professor Florin Albeanu. He hopes to change that by essentially teaching a DIY approach to neuroscience. o-it-yourself (“DIY”) science evokes images of amateur scientists tinkering with test tubes in garages on the weekends. So, at first, the picture of...

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Revised view of brain circuit reveals how we avoid being overwhelmed by powerful odors

Peter Tarr — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:00:48 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — You’ve just encountered a frightened skunk, which has sprayed a generous quantity of its sulfur-containing scent directly in your path. The noxious odor is overpowering. As you turn to run in the opposite direction, you are performing with your feet an operation analogous to one that each of your senses...

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