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Cocktails & Chromosomes: Hormones on my mind

Communications Department — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:30:14 +0000

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Empowering Insights: The science behind health

Communications Department — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:30:22 +0000

The opportunity to turn curiosity into discoveries that impact the human condition is at the core of ��ϳԹ��Դ’s mission. Our scientists are empowered to ask big questions and search for solutions to biology’s most challenging problems. Doing that requires interdisciplinary study, and the Laboratory’s brain-body physiology program encourages our scientists to confront...

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At the Lab Season 1 Research Rewind: Neuroscience

Communications Department — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:30:25 +0000

Trying to remember that one thing that one CSHL scientist said about the brain that one time? Jog your memory and catch up on what you might have missed in our latest Research Rewind. This week At the Lab, you’ll hear all about our innovative neuroscience research from CSHL scientists Arkarup Banerjee, Benjamin Cowley, Hiro...

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Making headlines

Communications Department — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:30:56 +0000

Several faculty members received mainstream media attention in 2024. Professor and Director of Education Zachary Lippman was featured in The New York Times and on CNN for his team’s discovery of the gene behind plant prickles. Assistant Professor Corina Amor Vegas was featured in WIRED and on the BBC for her work demonstrating that CAR...

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At the Lab Episode 19: Brain sex

Communications Department — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:30:15 +0000

Depending on where your head’s at, the phrase “brain sex” might not mean what you think. On the other hand, this week’s podcast is all about hormones. In our latest edition of At the Lab, we hear from CSHL Associate Professor Jessica Tollkuhn about the role of estrogen in brain development.

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Hazen Tower

Nick Wurm — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:00:40 +0000

very hour on the hour, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., a bell tolls at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL). Whether you’re enjoying a walking tour, attending a Symposium, admiring some campus art, or just going about your day at the lab, Hazen Tower is hard to ignore. Orienting visitors and staff in time and...

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Women’s health quiz

Communications Department — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:30:35 +0000

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A call for support of trans scientists

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:00:39 +0000

Ever heard of the jelly bean experiment? A researcher filled a jar with jelly beans. He then asked a student how many were in the jar. Then he repeated the question with another student and another until every student in the class had been tested—each in private. Very few students guessed a number near the...

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Women in science on women’s health

Jennifer Michalowski — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:30:18 +0000

You’ve heard the phrase, “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.” If only it were so simple. The fact is that all of us are from Earth. Yet, there are clear physical and neurological differences between the sexes. Women comprise half the world’s population. However, when it comes to health conditions that primarily affect...

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One Experiment: The brain’s power lines

Nick Wurm — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:30:55 +0000

No, that’s not a bird’s-eye view of the Earth at night. Those glowing green lines connecting each dot aren’t highways. And the big dots aren’t cities or towns either. But there are power lines and, in a way, it is still a map. What you’re looking at is a close-up view of neural circuits deep...

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Simón(e) Sun named 2023 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow

Nick Wurm — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:30:18 +0000

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Simón(e) Sun, a postdoc in ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Jessica Tollkuhn’s lab, a 2023 Hanna Gray Fellow. Since 2017, the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program has worked to increase diversity among early-career researchers in the biomedical and life sciences. The fellowship provides Sun up...

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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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Jessica Tollkuhn wins $750K MIND Prize

Nick Wurm — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:00:36 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Jessica Tollkuhn has won the inaugural Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Prize. The $750,000 award will support her research on how sex hormones affect the brain over the course of a lifetime. The Pershing Square Foundation’s MIND Prize honors early-to-mid-career investigators pursuing innovative research on neurodegenerative diseases. “I’m...

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��ϳԹ��Դ: Foundations for the Future

Communications Department — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:30:31 +0000

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Simón(e) Sun named a 2022 Leading Edge Fellow

Nick Wurm — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 11:30:20 +0000

Simón(e) Sun, a postdoc in ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Jessica Tollkuhn’s lab, was named a 2022 Leading Edge Fellow for her research on the protein estrogen receptor beta, and its role in the development and function of the nervous system. Sun says, “I’m excited and grateful to be a part of the Leading...

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How hormones define brain sex differences

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 04 May 2022 15:00:36 +0000

Sex hormones play an important role in shaping an animal’s behavior, and their influence starts early. Early-life hormonal surges help shape the developing brain, establishing circuitry that will influence behavior for a lifetime. Hundreds of genes in the brain fall under the control of estrogen. Fluctuating levels of the hormone cause shifts in mood, energy...

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��ϳԹ��Դ 2022 Ph.D.’s

Communications Department — Sun, 01 May 2022 22:00:07 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences takes an innovative approach to advanced education. Graduates of the doctoral program pursue diverse careers. This year, ten students were awarded Ph.D. degrees. Here they recall memories and experiences that they take from the Laboratory moving forward. Brianna Lynn Bibel St. Mary’s College of California...

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Feeling sluggish? Blame a lack of estrogen

Jennifer Michalowski — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:45:46 +0000

The natural rise and fall of estrogen coordinate a wide array of functions in the body and brain—including the motivation to move. Female animals are most active when estrogen levels are high, a pattern that increases the odds of encountering a mate when pregnancy is most likely. For humans, this relationship may be most apparent...

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Estrogen: It makes a mouse move

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:30:05 +0000

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2021 Women’s Partnership luncheon raises $250,000

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:30:51 +0000

On Sunday, September 19, 2021 ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) held its twentieth annual Women’s Partnership for Science lecture and luncheon at the Banbury Conference Center. The event, attended by almost 300 people, raised over $250,000 to support women scientists’ research at the Laboratory. The featured speaker, CSHL Assistant Professor Jessica Tollkuhn, spoke about estrogen’s...

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