Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The main campus of the Laboratory is located on 113 acres on the west shore of Cold Spring Harbor. Within five miles of the main campus are the 45-acre Banbury Conference Center, the 12-acre Uplands Farm Agricultural Field Station, the Genome Research Center and the Dolan DNA Learning Center. On the main campus, more than 40 buildings are devoted to research, education, and residences, as shown on the map The Lay of the Lab.

Genomic Research Center. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Genome Research Center is one of the largest centers of its kind in New York State. The 65,000 square foot facility is located on 12 acres in Woodbury, New York, south of the main Laboratory campus. The Center significantly advances the Laboratory’s research missions through its additional laboratory space, core facilities, and the Genome Sequencing Center. The Center also houses a 125-seat auditorium, a library for print, electronic and online information, and administrative offices, including administrative space for the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

Scientific Shared Resources. Specialized, state-of-the art scientific equipment and techniques are centralized in shared facilities available at low cost for use by all CSHL scientific staff. CSHL is one of 60 NCI-designated Cancer Centers Program, and funding from the NCI supports operation of twelve Shared Research Resources. The facilities are staffed by specialists who can either carry out experiments or provide advice and training. These facilities are continually updated and revised as technology and research needs change.

Library. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library consists of six libraries and one archive. The Carnegie Library houses the main collection of more than 580 journals and series titles and 10,000 books. Five other buildings house specialized collections in cancer cell biology and virology, neuroscience, crystallography and structural biology, plant genetics, and bioethics and science policy. The Library offers access to computerized information sources, reference services, interlibrary loans, and advice with literature searches on the computer. There is an extensive collection of journals accessible online from computers throughout the Laboratory.

Scientific Seminars. CSHL sponsors weekly seminars with invited external speakers, and weekly "in-house" seminars given by CSHL faculty, post-docs and graduate students. In addition, there are weekly joint-lab meetings that bring together labs with common interests; typically, two scientists present each week. In most cases, all post doctoral fellows, graduate students and faculty present each year. A Laboratory retreat is held yearly, where all CSHL faculty give an oral presentation of recent work. These meeting provide a variety of opportunities for interaction between scientists in different labs and help them to keep up-to-date with current results around the Laboratory.

CSHL Meetings and Courses. Each year, more than 8,000 scientists worldwide attend one or several of the many scientific meetings held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The Laboratory maintains a long-standing and international reputation for hosting meetings in which speakers are primarily chosen on the basis of openly submitted abstracts. All CSHL scientists receive an abstract book for meetings and are welcome to attend lectures, poster sessions and wine-and-cheese gatherings with meetings participants. This access allows CSHL scientists to get a broad idea of the important developments in a variety of scientific disciplines. Furthermore, these meetings provide an opportunity for graduate students and post docs to network with leaders in various fields, to meet with potential post doctoral advisors, or to explore job opportunities.

Information Technology. The Information Technology Department provides campus-wide support for the generic and specialized computer needs of the Laboratory. The Laboratory has a Network Operations Center that maintains computer services for the campus and a fiber-optic network that connects all buildings. The Laboratory network has over 1000 devices attached to it, consisting primarily of PC and Macintosh desktops. There are a considerable number of NT and UNIX servers including high-end computational servers for scientific applications. File backup and e-mail services are provided to all graduate students as well as network connectivity by wireless connections in all classrooms.