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CSHL professors on the cutting edge of scientific research

Nick Wurm — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:30:48 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) scientists produced some of 2022’s most popular research. CSHL Professors W. Richard McCombie, David Tuveson, and Christopher Vakoc, and Adjunct Professor Z. Josh Huang rank among the top 1% of the world’s most cited researchers, according to global analytics firm Clarivate. Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers List recognizes researchers with broad...

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Fine-tuning motivation in the brain

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:00:38 +0000

Fezf2 and are connected to and activate other neurons, which are stained green in this image of a mouse brain. Image: Li lab" data-description="" />A characteristic of depression is a lack of motivation. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Bo Li, in collaboration with CSHL Adjunct Professor Z. Josh Huang, discovered a group of neurons in the mouse brain that influences the animal’s motivation to perform tasks for rewards. Dialing up the activity of these neurons makes a mouse...

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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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CSHL researcher wins NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

Jasmine Lee — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:00:50 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Adjunct Professor Z. Josh Huang was awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award. The award supports scientists with highly innovative, “high-risk, high-reward” approaches to major challenges in biomedical, social science, and behavioral research. Huang was recognized for developing a new generation of precise cell engineering technologies to...

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NIH BRAIN Initiative invests $9.7 million in CSHL scientists

Luis Sandoval — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 13:30:45 +0000

The National Institute of Health (NIH) Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative awarded a total of $9.7 million in new grants to ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) professors, a senior fellow, and a visiting scientist. Started in 2013, the BRAIN Initiative funds innovative neuroscience projects. The goal is to better treat, prevent, and...

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Mice with too many chandelier cells lack depth perception

Marc Persad — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:01:31 +0000

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Problems with depth perception caused by too many cells

Jennifer Michalowski — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 16:00:16 +0000

Our perceptions of the world are shaped both by our biology and our experiences. New work from ��ϳԹ��Դ Adjunct Professor Z. Josh Huang provides a glimpse of how these factors intersect in a part of the brain that integrates visual information, establishing the neural circuitry that literally shapes how we see the...

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Congressman Suozzi honors Regeneron scholars at CSHL

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:41:32 +0000

Congressman Tom Suozzi of New York’s third congressional district visited ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) on February 24, 2020. He congratulated over twenty high school students from local school districts who were named Regeneron finalists and scholars. Among the recipients were two participants in CSHL’s Partners for the Future program. The Regeneron Science Talent Search...

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Abnormal neuron activity manifests as parental neglect

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:00:34 +0000

The brain undergoes dramatic change during the first years of life. Its circuits readily rewire as an infant and then child encounters new sights and sounds, taking in the world and learning to understand it. As the child matures and key developmental periods pass, the brain becomes less malleable—but certain experiences create opportunities for parts...

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CSHL investigators rank among world’s most highly cited

Brian Stallard — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:00:14 +0000

Seven researchers affiliated with ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) have been named among the scientists producing the top 1 percent of the most highly cited research in the world. They join CSHL Professor Michael Wigler, who is listed as one of the most extensively cited researchers of all time. The annual Highly Cited Researchers list...

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NIH grant awarded for interneuron research

Charlotte Hu — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 20:35:44 +0000

Dr. Maggie Crow, a CSHL postdoctoral researcher in quantitative biology, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for her research at the intersection of genomics, neuroscience, and computer science. Crow, who is affiliated with Associate Professor Jesse Gillis’ lab, will use the grant for her project studying interneurons, which she likens to...

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New cell subtypes classified in mouse brain

Brian Stallard — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:50:22 +0000

Cell Reports 2019)" data-description="" />Cold Spring Harbor, NY — It’s been estimated that the human brain contains roughly 100 billion neurons, together completing countless tasks through countless connections. So how do we make sense of the roles each of these neurons play? As part of the United States BRAIN Initiative, scientists from ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) have outlined...

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The miracle of brain development

Peter Tarr — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:16:33 +0000

Genetic “fate-mapping” technologies developed by (��ϳԹ��Դ) Professor Josh Huang and colleagues show in exquisite detail how an important part of the mammalian brain—here, a mouse brain—self-assembles over a few short weeks during the embryonic period. In the sequence featured below, follow the emergence of the striatum, a brain area that enables information...

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One experiment: Building a brain

Peter Tarr — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:14:21 +0000

We think of ourselves as unique individuals, yet developmental biology reveals what all of us must have in common before our experiences even begin to differentiate us. ��ϳԹ��Դ Professor Josh Huang and his team show in these images how a program that has evolved over eons and is imprinted in genes unfurls...

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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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A lesson in class

Brian Stallard — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 17:03:49 +0000

Base Pairs podcast Base Pairs is a podcast about “the power of genetic information.” And there’s no better example of that power than how genome sequencing has changed our understanding of biology. In this episode, experts from three very different fields in the life sciences share stories from their own research that showcase this change....

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One experiment: A beautiful brain, neuron by neuron

Peter Tarr — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:04:59 +0000

What you see here is not a pointillist masterpiece. It is a rendering of the mouse brain, from above, formed by millions of colored dots. Like the famous canvases painted by post-Impressionist Georges Seurat, the triumph of this image is in the relation of the dots themselves. Each colored dot is an inhibitory neuron, and...

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For brain cells, you are who you speak to

Andrea Alfano — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:31:34 +0000

Tracking a person entails searching through their email, phone, and other means of communication to map out their network. To do this for a brain cell, more creativity is called for. fter more than a century of investigation into the diverse cells of the brain, neuroscientists still are not sure what exactly makes one neuron different from...

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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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