Harbor Transcript magazine

125th Anniversary—2015

To celebrate CSHL’s 125th Anniversary, join us online and in person for experiences that travel the past, present and future of one of the world’s leading private, not-for profit biological research and education institutions. The front and back covers of this magazine highlight one of these experiences—an interactive digital timeline about the impact of CSHL basic research discoveries on society. Using multimedia, the stories on the pages of this magazine come to life on your digital devices. Visit the campus throughout the year for special events and engage with on Facebook and Twitter! #CSHL125

Summer 2014

A special kind of glass slide, known as a “flowcell,” is where DNA sequencing happens. DNA is loaded into the vein-like channels etched in the slide’s surface. The slide is then inserted into a sequencing machine where genetic information—encoded by the letters A,T,C, and G—is read.

Winter 2013

Alexis Tchaconas, a senior at Columbia University, was one of 27 gifted college students who took part in the Undergraduate Research Program in summer 2013. Her study of autism, performed in the lab of Professor Mike Wigler, was motivated by a family connection to the disorder.

Summer 2013

Charles A. Jencks, Spirals Time – Time Spirals

The 15-foot-high sculpture reminds us, in the sculptor’s words, of DNA’s “many different manifestations” by catching and reflecting light in varied ways. The sculpture is installed, appropriately, between the Watsons’ current residence and Airslie House, the President’s residence.

Winter 2012

A few of CSHL’s 170 postdocs, pictured on the Hillside steps that lead literally to their labs and figuratively to their success in scientific careers.

Summer 2012

Having co-developed a high-throughput, automated microscopy platform called Serial Two-photon (STP) Tomography for imaging whole mouse brains, CSHL Associate Professor Pavel Osten has launched a spin-off company that is applying this technology to drug discovery in neuroscience.

Winter 2011

Graduate student Shipra Das and Postdoc Ken Sahashi in Prof. Adrian Krainer’s lab are among the many investigators at CSHL who developing fresh conceptual approaches and new technologies to treat cancer.

Summer 2011

This thicket of wires is part of an apparatus designed by Asst. Prof. Florin Albeanu. It enables his team to deliver precise combinations of 165 chemical odorants to mice, in experiments designed to probe their olfactory circuitry.

Winter 2010

Assistant Professor Zachary Lippman seeks to identify the genetic basis of heterosis, the phenomenon that allows hybrid plants—in this case, tomatoes—to achieve higher yields than their parents.

Summer 2010

The Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center provides a stylish yet informal setting for gatherings of up to 550 scientists. The cafe is shown on the cover.

Winter 2009

In the Uplands Farm greenhouse, Prof. David Jackson (center) discusses maize genetics with members of his lab, Morgan Xu and Tara Zadrozny.

Spring 2009

Orubba Almansouri, who emigrated to the U.S. from Yemen only two years ago, preparing a sample of her own mitochondrial DNA at the new Harlem DNA Lab. She is the student body president at Brooklyn International H.S. “In my country,” she says, “the public schools were always very crowded, maybe 80 students per class. The girls were separate from the boys. We didn’t do labs.”