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CSHL’s research faculty has a rich history of contributing some of the most fundamental discoveries in molecular biology and genetics. This legacy, which includes 8 Nobel Prize winners, continues to be strengthened today by the 50 faculty members who head cutting-edge laboratories in a broad range of fields, some of which are often and increasingly interdisciplinary. Their efforts and output are consistently, internationally recognized. Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators, a leading index for institutional performance, has ranked CSHL in the top 1% of institutions most cited in published research and its faculty among the top three in terms of its influence in molecular biology and genetics.

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Associate Professor

neuronal circuits, sensory coding and synaptic plasticity, neuronal correlates of behavior, olfactory processing

Dinu Florin Albeanu

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Assistant Professor

vocal communication, singing mice, systems neuroscience, neural circuits, neuroethology

Arkarup Banerjee

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

immunology, cancer, nutrition, metabolism, epigenetics

Semir Beyaz

Cancer Center Member

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

sleep, neuromodulators, cancer neuroscience, homeostasis, host-tumor physiology

Jeremy C. Borniger

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Cancer Center Member

ovarian cancer, breast cancer, genetics, genomics, genetic susceptibility, early natural history

Jeff Boyd

Cancer Center Member

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Assistant Professor

synapse, refinement, pruning, sensory experience, microglia, development, autism, 2-photon imaging, single-cell RNA-sequencing, cytokine

Lucas Cheadle

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Assistant Professor

computational neuroscience, closed-loop experiments, interpretable models, deep neural network models, machine learning

Benjamin Cowley

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

computational genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, gene regulation, big data, precision medicine

Alexander Dobin

Cancer Center Member

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Associate Professor
Cancer Center Member

breast cancer, mammary gland development, stem cells, enhancer biology, gene regulation

Camila dos Santos

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader

tumor microenvironment, intravital imaging, tumor-associated myeloid cells, neutrophil extracellular traps, breast and pancreatic cancer

Mikala Egeblad

Cancer Center Member

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Associate Professor

neural dynamics and computation, neural circuit models, machine learning, stochastic processes, dynamical systems theory, decision-making, attention

Tatiana Engel

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Professor
Cancer Center Member

cancer immunology, pancreatic cancer, mouse models

Douglas Fearon

Cancer Center Member

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Professor

membrane proteins, x-ray crystallography, electrophysiology, neurodegenerative disease

Hiro Furukawa

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Associate Professor
Cancer Center Member

gene regulatory networks, computational biology, RNA biology, transposable elements, machine learning for genomics analysis

Molly Gale Hammell

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Cancer Center Member

genome-wide organization of transcription and the functional roles of non-protein coding RNAs

Thomas Gingeras

Cancer Center Member

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Associate Professor
Cancer Center Member

post-transcriptional gene regulation, control of animal developmental timing, RNA biology

Christopher Hammell

Cancer Center Member

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Assistant Professor

neural circuits, natural behaviors, brain-body interaction, electrophysiology, movement control, neural computation

Helen Hou

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Associate Professor

computational biology, molecular networks, human genetics, human disease, applied statistical and machine learning, biomedical text-mining, molecular evolution

Ivan Iossifov

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Professor

plant development, stem cell signaling, genomics and imaging

David Jackson

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

host response to cancer, metabolism, immunology, cancer immunotherapy, cachexia, physiology of patients with cancer

Tobias Janowitz

Cancer Center Member

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Professor & HHMI Investigator
W.M. Keck Professor of Structural Biology
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader

structural biology, nucleic acid regulation, RNAi, molecular recognition, X-ray crystallography

Leemor Joshua-Tor

Cancer Center Member

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Associate Professor
Cancer Center Member

sequence-function relationships, machine learning, biophysics, transcriptional regulation

Justin Kinney

Cancer Center Member

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

sequence-function relationships, deep learning, representation learning

Peter Koo

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Charles Robertson Professor of Neuroscience

theoretical neurobiology, quantitative principles of cortical design, computer science, applied mathematics

Alexei Koulakov

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Professor
St. Giles Foundation Professor
Cancer Center Deputy Director of Research

posttranscriptional control of gene expression, alternative splicing, splicing in genetic diseases and cancer, splicing-targeted antisense therapeutics

Adrian R. Krainer

Cancer Center Member

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Associate Professor
Cancer Center Member

computational biology, human genetics, phylogenetics, copy number variation

Dan Levy

Cancer Center Member

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Professor

synapse, physiology and plasticity, neural circuits, fear processing, reward processing, rodent behaviors related to mental disorders

Bo Li

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Professor & HHMI Investigator
Jacob Goldfield Professor of Genetics

plant developmental genetics, mechanisms of phase transitions for flowering time and inflorescence branching, heterosis

Zachary Lippman

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

cancer, metastasis, metabolism, nutrition, cellular signal transduction, redox, homeostasis, epigenetics

Michael Lukey

Cancer Center Member

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Professor & HHMI Investigator
William J. Matheson Professor
Cancer Center Member

plant genetics, transposons, development, gene regulation, DNA methylation

Rob Martienssen

Cancer Center Member

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

computational biology, sequence-function relationships, population genetics, protein evolution, machine learning

David McCandlish

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Davis Family Professor of Human Genetics
Cancer Center Member

genomics of psychiatric disorders, genomics of cancer, computational genomics, plant genomics

W. Richard McCombie

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Cancer Center Member

cancer, development, aging, senescence, epigenetics

Alea A. Mills

Cancer Center Member

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Professor

neuroscience, theoretical biology

Partha Mitra

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Professor
Cancer Center Member

click chemistry, cancer, chemical biology, organic synthesis, natural products, biomimetic synthesis

John Moses

Cancer Center Member

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Associate Professor

algorithms in nature, biological computation, neural circuits, plant architectures

Saket Navlakha

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Associate Professor

plant growth, signaling, genomics, development, plant-environment interactions

Ullas Pedmale

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Assistant Professor

neural circuits, development, gene regulation, synaptic refinement, plasticity, neurodevelopmental disorders

Gabrielle Pouchelon

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

transposons and endogenous retroviruses, small regulatory RNA, tRNA-fragments, epigenetics

Andrea Schorn

Cancer Center Member

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Associate Professor

olfaction, audition, communication behaviors, in vivo electrophysiology, individual recognition

Stephen Shea

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Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader
Chair, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology

computational biology, population genetics, computational genomics, molecular evolution, gene regulation

Adam Siepel

Cancer Center Member

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Professor & Director of Research
Robert B. Gardner, Jr. Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader

cell biology, gene expression, nuclear structure, non-coding RNAs

David L. Spector

Cancer Center Member

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President and Chief Executive Officer
Oliver R. Grace Professor
Cancer Center Member

cancer, cell cycle, DNA replication, chromatin assembly, biochemistry, yeast genetics

Bruce Stillman

Cancer Center Member

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Associate Professor

transcriptional regulation, chromatin, critical periods in neurodevelopment, steroid hormones and behavior

Jessica Tollkuhn

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Professor
Caryl Boies Professor of Cancer Research
Cancer Center Deputy Director of Operations

posttranslational modification, phosphorylation, phosphatases, signal transduction, protein structure and function

Nicholas Tonks

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Cancer Center Deputy Director of Education and Diversity

cancer modeling and treatment, senescence and tumor progression, cancer visualization, PTEN regulation

Lloyd Trotman

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research
Cancer Center Director

pancreatic cancer, experimental therapeutics, diagnostics, mouse models, cancer genetics

David Tuveson

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader
Alan and Edith Seligson Professor of Cancer Research

chromatin, transcriptional regulation, acute myeloid leukemia, BET bromodomains, lysine methyltransferases

Chris Vakoc

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Harold and Florence & Ethel McNeill Professor of Cancer Research
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader

signal transduction, Ras and Rho proteins, tumorigenesis, neuronal development and disorders

Linda Van Aelst

Cancer Center Member

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Adjunct Professor

genomics, genome evolution, genetic diversity, gene regulation, plant biology, computational biology

Doreen Ware

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

cancer genomics, immunology, tumor evolution, advanced mouse models, single cell and spatial omics

Peter Westcott

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Russell and Janet Doubleday Professor of Cancer Research
Cancer Center Member

human genetic disorders, population genetics, cancer genomics

Michael Wigler

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
The Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Professor of Neurosciences

neural circuits, sensory processing, attention and decision making, attention, molecular tool development, connectomics

Anthony Zador

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

hematologic malignancies, tumor microenvironment, metabolites, micronutrients, neurotransmitters, diets, nervous system activities

Lingbo Zhang

Cancer Center Member

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Research Staff

Joan Alexander

Research Investigator

Wigler laboratory

Osama El Demerdash

Computer Scientist

Vakoc laboratory

Elad Elkayam

Visiting Scientist

Joshua-Tor laboratory

Diane Esposito

Director of Research Compliance/Research Investigator

Qing Gao

Research Investigator

Trotman laboratory

Sara Goodwin

Research Investigator/Project Manager

CCG Shared Resources, McCombie laboratory

Ana Henriques da Costa

Research Investigator

Pappin laboratory

Gilbert Henry

Research Investigator

Zador laboratory

Manzar Hossain

Research Investigator

Stillman laboratory

Jonathan Ipsaro

Research Investigator

Joshua-Tor laboratory

Vivek Kumar

Computer Scientist

Ware laboratory

Yoon-Ha Lee

Research Investigator

Issifov laboratory

Youngkyu Park

Senior Research Investigator

Tuveson laboratory

Dennis Plenker

Research Investigator

Tuveson laboratory

Michael Regulski

Research Investigator

Ware laboratory

Benjamin Roche

Research Investigator

Martienssen laboratory

Yi-Jun Sheu

Research Investigator

Stillman laboratory

Damianos Skopelitis

Research Investigator

Vakoc Laboratory

Asya Stepansky

Research Investigator

Wigler laboratory

Zihua Wang

Senior Research Investigator

Wigler laboratory

Boris Yamrom

Senior Computer Scientist

Wigler laboratory

Kai Yu

Research Investigator

Li Laboratory