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Alumnus Josh Sanders makes neuroscience research tools open and affordable

5/2/2016

Josh Sanders developed a series of tools for neuroscience research that filled major needs in the field. Read the story »

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory confers 90th Ph.D.

5/2/2016

On May 1, proud friends and family mingled with distinguished scientists at the 13th commencement ceremony of the Watson School of Biological Sciences Read the story »

WSBS Teaching Award 2016 for Mickey Atwal

5/2/2016

Mickey Atwal is the third two-time winner of the Winship Herr Award for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching. Read the story »

Graduation 2016

4/29/2016

Watson School awards seven Ph.D. degrees, to students who studied topics ranging from single-cell sequence data analysis to acute myeloid leukemia. Read the story »

Student Lisa Krug quells the transposon storm of ALS

2/22/2016

Lisa Krug defended her Ph.D. thesis, in which she studied the molecular basis of ALS in a model organism: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Read the story »

Saving our food supply with alumna Michelle Cilia

12/11/2015

Dr. Michelle Cilia has made it her mission to understand the bacteria and viruses that strike plants—and how to stop them. Read the story »

Finding huge promise in a single cell with student Robert Aboukhalil

11/2/2015

Robert Aboukhalil use his skills as a computational biologist to make single-cell genomic data easy for scientists and clinicians to access and use. Read the story »

14th Women’s Partnership for Science raises over $200,000 for disease research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

9/30/2015

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) held the 14th annual Women's Partnership for Science luncheon. Read the story »

Research bench to writing desk with alum Darren Burgess

9/17/2015

A look at the career of an editor at a prestigious scientific journal. Read the story »

Scientific inspiration with third-year student Annabel Romero Hernandez

9/1/2015

Graduate student Annabel Romero Hernandez spent 244 days portraying the world around her on a very small scale. Read the story »

Matriculation 2015

8/17/2015

August 17, 2015, marks matriculation at the Watson School. Read the story »

Third-year student Abram Handly Santana explores the pancreatic tumor microenvironment

8/1/2015

Abram Handly Santana wants to understand how the tumor microenvironment contributes to pancreas cancer. Read the story »

Alumna Elizabeth Murchison follows the evolutionary path of contagious cancer

7/15/2015

Watson School of Biological Science ‘07 alumna Dr. Elizabeth Murchison studies cancers in domestic dogs, soft-shell clams and Tasmanian devils. Read the story »

Alumna Monica Dus discovers the cookie-brain connection

7/1/2015

A look at alumna Dr. Monica Dus. Read the story »

Third-year student Tyler Garvin brings together engineering and medicine to help save lives

6/22/2015

Student researches non-coding mutations responsible for changes in human gene expression. Read the story »