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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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The CSHL School of Biological Sciences’ class of 2023

Communications Department — Sun, 07 May 2023 22:01:03 +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 2023 share memories and experiences from their time at CSHL. Lyndsey...

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Women’s Partnership luncheon raises $150,000 for research

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:00:55 +0000

On Sunday, September 13, 2020, attendees gathered at the Banbury Center for the nineteenth annual Women’s Partnership for Science luncheon, hosted by ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL). The luncheon raised nearly $150,000 to support female scientists’ research. The featured speaker, Associate Professor Molly Gale Hammell, spoke about transposons, a mobile piece of DNA described as...

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The non-human living inside of you

Communications Department — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:00:21 +0000

« Previous Story Next Story » Half of your genome started out as an infection; if left unchecked, some parts of it can turn deadly all over again. The human genome contains billions of pieces of information and around 22,000 genes, but not all of it is, strictly speaking, human. Eight percent of our DNA...

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Seeking better treatment for ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:00:59 +0000

There is currently no cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). But new research could open up avenues for better diagnosis and more effective treatment. The study, led by ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Molly Gale Hammell, analyzed the role proteins called TDP-43 play in ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. In ALS, those...

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Public Lecture: Seeing With Sequencing

Public Affairs Administrator — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 15:58:37 +0000

Come hear from three quantitative biologists as they discuss how they see with sequencing to solve mysteries ranging from the genetics of evolution.

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Seeing with sequencing—A public lecture with three CSHL experts

Communications Department — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:15:03 +0000

Over 400 years ago, the invention of the microscope opened up a new world of discovery. Just sixteen years ago, the completion of the Human Genome Project launched a similar revolution in science.

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Molly Hammell wins CZI award for ALS study

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:00:07 +0000

Associate Professor Molly Hammell has been awarded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award for her proposed work on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better know by the acronym ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that causes complete paralysis and eventual death due to the rapid and progressive loss...

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Base Pairs Episode 9.5: Redefining biologists, redefining genes

Public Affairs Administrator — Tue, 16 May 2017 15:34:36 +0000

Base Pairs podcast - Set aside your notions of how biologists are born, or what the word “gene” means as you listen to our first chat episode. We talk with Assistant Professor Molly Hammell, a genome biologist who started out as an astrophysicist. She tells us what it’s like to peer deep into space using a high-tech telescope. We also speak with Professor Tom Gingeras about whether it’s time to redefine the gene.

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Redefining biologists, redefining genes

Brian Stallard — Tue, 16 May 2017 20:05:26 +0000

Base Pairs podcast Set aside your notions of how biologists are born, or what the word “gene” means as you listen to our first chat episode. We talk with Assistant Professor Molly Hammell, a genome biologist who started out as an astrophysicist. She tells us what it’s like to peer deep into space using a...

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Research suggests a possible role for a storm of ‘jumping genes’ in ALS

Communications Department — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:00:37 +0000

Do genome-defending anti-transposon systems collapse in ALS patients? Stony Brook and Cold Spring Harbor, NY — By inserting an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-linked human gene called TDP-43 into fruit flies, researchers at Stony Brook University and ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) discovered a potential role for transposons in the disease. Transposons, which are also called jumping...

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Dark matter of the genome, part 1

Andrea Alfano — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:05:25 +0000

Base Pairs podcast Could “genome” be a misnomer? The name implies that our genetic information is mainly genes, yet when the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, it revealed that genes comprise a tiny minority. About 98 percent of the genome is something else—a kind of genomic dark matter. We’re kicking off the second...

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Base Pairs Bonus Episode: Molecules and a mission

Public Affairs Administrator — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:28:11 +0000

We are Base Pairs the podcast about “the power of genetic information.” Why did we choose this name? In this bonus episode, we explain the molecules and the metaphor.

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Riding out of the shadows of ALS, toward better treatments

Andrea Alfano — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 19:55:36 +0000

Watson School graduate Lisa Krug studied ALS in flies, but the human element of this research always remained present for her. She explains in this guest blog post. LS is a disease that makes itself nearly invisible. Although each year 6,400 Americans are diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, often called ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, they...

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ALS Ride for Life comes to ��ϳԹ��Դ

Communications Department — Mon, 23 May 2016 13:44:37 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — ALS researchers and others from CSHL gathered to welcome Chris Pendergast and his ALS Ride for Life team to campus on Monday, May 16, marking the end of Day 7 of an annual 12-day, 100-plus mile patient wheelchair ride across Long Island to raise money for ALS research, support and awareness. This was the...

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Ride For Life gives $300,000 for ALS research at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL)

Communications Department — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:50:15 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — ALS Ride For Life this month presented $300,000 to CSHL Assistant Professor Molly Hammell and Associate Professor Josh Dubnau to pursue research into possible genetic causes of the devastating disease. Since 1997, Ride For Life has conducted an annual twelve-day, one hundred plus mile patient wheelchair ride across Long Island...

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CSHL’s Dr. Molly Hammell named 2014 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

Communications Department — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 22:10:00 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Molly Hammell has been recognized as one of seven 2014 Rita Allen Scholars. The award supports promising early-career investigators, providing up to $110,000 annually for five years. Hammell has been designated the Milton E. Cassel Scholar, the Foundation’s highest honor, which pays tribute...

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Storm of ‘awakened’ transposons may cause brain-cell pathologies in ALS, other illnesses

Peter Tarr — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:50:33 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — A team of neuroscientists and informatics experts at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) reports important progress in an effort to understand the relationship between transposons—sequences of DNA that can jump around within the genome, potentially causing great damage—and mechanisms involved in serious neurodegenerative disorders including ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also...

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