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

Dinu Florin Albeanu

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

gene regulation, nuclear speckles, chromatin organization, transcription factors

Katherine Alexander

Cancer Center Member

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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader

senescence, aging, cancer, immunology, cellular communication, mouse models, Cancer Center

Corina Amor Vegas

Cancer Center Member

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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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Associate Professor
Cancer Center Member

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

Lucas Cheadle

Cancer Center Member

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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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Associate Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader

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

Camila dos Santos

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Cancer Center Member

cancer immunology, pancreatic cancer, mouse models

Douglas Fearon

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Cancer Center Member

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

Hiro Furukawa

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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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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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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Associate Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader

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

Tobias Janowitz

Cancer Center Member

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Professor, Director of Research & HHMI Investigator
W.M. Keck Professor of Structural Biology
Cancer Center Member

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 Program Co-Leader

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

Justin Kinney

Cancer Center Member

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Assistant Professor

artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, sensory information processing, robust perception, representation learning

David Klindt

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Associate 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 Program Co-Leader

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
Robert Lourie Professor of Neuroscience

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
Director of Graduate Studies

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

Zachary Lippman

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Associate Professor
Cancer Center Assistant Director of Shared Resources

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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Associate 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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Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

spatial transcriptomics, immunology, central tolerance, bioinformatics

Hannah Meyer

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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Professor

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

Stephen Shea

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Professor
Cancer Center Member

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

Adam Siepel

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Robert B. Gardner Jr., Professor
Cancer Center Member

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
Cancer Center Member

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

Jessica Tollkuhn

Cancer Center Member

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Professor
Caryl Boies Professor of Cancer Research
Cancer Center Associate Director of Shared Resources

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

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
Alan and Edith Seligson Professor of Cancer Research
Cancer Center Deputy Director of 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 Scientists

Research Associate Professor/Director, Functional Genomics
Cancer Center Member

shRNA, miRNA, CRISPR, cancer, genetic screens, technology development, perturbagen, libraries

Kenneth Chang

Cancer Center Member

Kenneth Chang

Research Associate Professor/Director, Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource
Cancer Center Member

proteomics, metabolomics, mass-spectrometry, structural biology, quantitative biology, biochemical regulation, signaling, post-translational modification

Paolo Cifani

Cancer Center Member

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Research Assistant Professor and Director, Sequencing Technologies and Analysis
Cancer Center Member

sequencing, DNA, RNA, plants, cancer

Sara Goodwin

Cancer Center Member

Sara Goodwin

Research Professor
Cancer Center Member

in silico genomics of cancer, single-cell genomics, early detection of cancer, inference from noisy biological data

Alexander Krasnitz

Cancer Center Member

Alexander Krasnitz

Research Assistant Professor

single-cell multi-omics, genetics, cancer, technology development

Siran Li

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Research Associate Professor/Director Animal Imaging
Cancer Center Member

cancer, imaging, preclinical, dynamic, non-invasive, therapeutics

Scott Lyons

Cancer Center Member

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Research Associate Professor/Head of Genomics Technology Development
Cancer Center Member

single cell, genomics, tumor microenvironment

Jon Preall

Cancer Center Member

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Research Assistant Professor

genomics, next-gen sequencing, rare variant detection, autism genetics

Michael Ronemus

Mike Ronemus

Research Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member

human genetics, cancer genomics, rare mutation detection, copy number variation, microsatellite, technology development

Zihua Wang

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Research Assistant Professor & Director, Microscopy Shared Resource

4D imaging, microscopy, super-resolution imaging, technology development

Erika Tse-Luen Wee

Cancer Center Member

Erika Tse-Luen Wee

Research Associate Professor & Director, CSHL Antibody and Phage Display Shared Resource
Cancer Center Member

cancer, drug discovery, antibody and protein engineering, chemical biology, signal transduction

Johannes Yeh

Cancer Center Member

Johannes Yeh

Research Assistant Professor

autism, SFARI, AGRE, SNVs, CNVs, whole-genomeexome sequencing, single-cell sequencing and bulksingle RNA sequencing

Seungtai (Chris) Yoon

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Research Assistant Professor

MAPseq, BARseq, high throughput brain mapping, single cell neuronal projections, in situ transcriptomics, in situ sequencing, RNA barcoding, virus library

Huiqing (Ching) Zhan

Huiqing (Ching) Zhan

Research Staff

Joan Alexander

Research Investigator

Wigler laboratory

Pascal Belleau

Research Investigator

Krasnitz laboratory

Osama El Demerdash

Computer Scientist

Stillman laboratory

Diane Esposito

Research Investigator

Wigler laboratory

Qing Gao

Research Investigator

Westcott laboratory

Nicholas Gladman

Research Investigator

Ware laboratory

Gilbert Henry

Research Investigator

Zador laboratory

Josh Homer

Research Investigator

Moses laboratory

Manzar Hossain

Research Investigator

Stillman laboratory

Hyun Soo Kim

Senior Research Investigator

Martienssen laboratory

Vivek Kumar

Computer Scientist

Ware laboratory

Yoon-Ha Lee

Research Investigator

Issifov laboratory

Youngkyu Park

Senior Research Investigator

Tuveson laboratory

Katerine Matho

Research Investigator

Huang laboratory

Michael Regulski

Research Investigator

Ware laboratory

Yi-Jun Sheu

Research Investigator

Stillman laboratory

Damianos Skopelitis

Senior Research Investigator

Vakoc Laboratory

Asya Stepansky

Research Investigator

Wigler laboratory

Claudia Tonelli

Research Investigator

Tuveson laboratory