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The science behind Ozempic and Wegovy

Communications Department — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:30:12 +0000

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Can AI uncover breast cancer risk factors?

Communications Department — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:30:22 +0000

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Growing human organs in the lab

Communications Department — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:30:11 +0000

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44th annual Dorcas Cummings lecture held at CSHL

Jill Stone — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:53:21 +0000

Named lectures are rare at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), and the annual Dorcas Cummings lecture is one is our oldest and most prestigious. It commemorates the life and work of Dorcas Oakley Cummings, a long-time resident of neighboring village Laurel Hollow. In the 60s and 70s she was involved with many organizations devoted to...

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Nobelist Sir Richard Roberts talks GMOs at CSHL

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:07:20 +0000

Nobel laureate and molecular biologist Sir Richard Roberts discussed golden rice and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) via a video conference with over 250 participants. The event was hosted by the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Library. Pamela Ronald, director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at UC Davis and author of Tomorrow’s Table:...

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Nobelist Sir Richard Roberts talks GMOs at CSHL hosted event

Marc Persad — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:48:45 +0000

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Fresh insights into prostate cancer surprise Movember crowd

Brian Stallard — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:02:22 +0000

crowd of moustached men and women gathered, beers in hand, at Six Harbors Brewing Co. in Huntington, N.Y. They sported handlebars, pencils, chevrons, and rainbow-colored fu manchus. But this wasn’t some meetup for eccentric moustache aficionados. November is Movemeber, men’s health awareness month, and the crowd gathered to hear Dr. Lloyd Trotman speak about prostate...

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Movember with Lloyd Trotman—A Cocktails and Chromosomes talk about prostate cancer

Communications Department — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:44:55 +0000

Did you know that 1 in 9 US men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime? But those stats might soon change, thanks to labs like that of Professor Lloyd Trotman. In this special #Movember edition of Cocktails and Chromosomes, learn how modern concepts of cancer evolution could help turn lethal metastatic prostate cancer into a curable disease.

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How to build more trust in science

Communications Department — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:53:09 +0000

How do scientists know when to trust the rigor of research outside of their own fields? How can we expect non-scientists to know what sources to trust? More than 30 leading scientists, science communicators and information technology experts tackled those questions at “Signals of Trust in Science Communication,” a conference held last year at Cold...

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Rob Martienssen special talk: Barbara McClintock’s Controlling Elements, Then and Now

Communications Department — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:00:16 +0000

Rob Martienssen’s special lecture on Barbara McClintock’s ‘Controlling Elements, Then and Now.’ In the 1940s Barbara McClintock famously discovered transposable elements, sometimes called jumping genes, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983. But she called them “controlling elements” and devoted much of her career to the regulation of...

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Rethinking cancer medicine

Communications Department — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 20:26:40 +0000

CSHL associate professor Tobias Janowitz, M.D., Ph.D. presents to the ��ϳԹ��Դ Association “how tumors interact with the entire body” and how understanding this, leads to “the questions that matter” for cancer treatment.

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Reflecting on progress for women in STEM

Communications Department — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:07:33 +0000

Nancy Hopkins, Prof. of Biology emerita, MIT, spent an afternoon at CSHL discussing the progress of women’s rights and gender equality in science. In this video, she reflects on her time at MIT, when major strides were made for women in STEM. “But we’re not done yet.”

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Genetic privacy: A friend or foe?

Communications Department — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:27:11 +0000

How concerned should you be about keeping your DNA private? Dr. Yaniv Erlich, CSO of MyHeritage DNA, addresses questions surrounding genotyping, justice, and genetic privacy.

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Metastasis & immunity

Communications Department — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:11:54 +0000

How immune cells can help cancer spread, or stop it in its tracks – A free Public Lecture at ��ϳԹ��Դ featuring Mikala Egeblad, Ph.D. and Sylvia Adams, M.D. Presented (June 2018) in partnership with St. Johnland Nursing Center with support from Northwell Health.

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Energy from thin air: Basic research to biofuels

Communications Department — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:14:45 +0000

Hear the story about plant science, entrepreneurial spirit, and pond scum in this free public lecture. CSHL Professor and HHMI Investigator Rob Martienssen, alongside Infinitree Inc. CEO Frank O’Keefe, discuss how simple duckweed can help address climate change and energy needs.

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How the mouse got its stripes

Communications Department — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:48:50 +0000

Rhabdomys pumilio. Photo credit J. F. Broekhuis" data-description="" />Mouse pelts filled the screen in Grace Auditorium. The audience—a mix of neuroscientists, cancer biologists, and plant biologists—had no stake in rodent stripes. Yet we sat enraptured as the invited speaker—Dr. Hopi Hoekstra, Professor of Zoology from Harvard University—pointed at the band pattern on the back of an African striped mouse, detailing the mechanism of...

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The changing relationship between humans and plants, it’s complicated

Public Affairs Administrator — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:22:04 +0000

CSHL plant scientists Dave Jackson, Doreen Ware, and Zach Lippman give their perspectives on the rapidly changing relationship between humans and plants at a free public lecture.

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Attacking metastatic breast cancer with dark matter (16th Women’s Partnership for Science luncheon)

Public Affairs Administrator — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:53:33 +0000

Guest speaker Sarah Diermeier, Ph.D., breast cancer researcher and CSHL Senior Fellow, gave a presentation on “Attacking Metastatic Breast Cancer with Dark Matter” at the 16th Women’s Partnership for Science Luncheon, work which she assisted her colleague Gayatri Arun in conducting.

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The latest research in immunotherapy and cancer

Public Affairs Administrator — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 20:43:56 +0000

Our own immune system can help fight cancer. Doctors Douglas Fearon (CSHL) and Robert Maki (Northwell Health) talk about the latest science and how immunotherapy is already affecting patient lives.

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Breast cancer’s dark matter

Public Affairs Administrator — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:40:06 +0000

Senior Fellow Sarah Diermeier, Ph.D., talks about breast cancer and how she and Spector Lab are exploring the “dark matter of the genome” to find new ways to stop it.

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