AI researchers ask: What’s going on inside the black box? 2/8/2021 Although researchers have figured out how to train computers to recognize things, they have yet to understand how machines make those predictions. Read the story »
How to tune out common odors and focus on important ones 5/11/2020 The fly brain uses a simple computing trick to ignore prevalent odors and focus on newer but rarer odorants. Read the story »
A science career path: David McCandlish 4/10/2020 Assistant Professor David McCandlish is a quantitative biologist who walks the line between advanced mathematics and the life sciences at CSHL. Read the story »
What Google could learn from a fruit fly 1/21/2020 By tapping into life’s algorithms, scientists are finding elegant solutions to some of the hardest problems in computer science. Read the story »
Saket Navlakha taps the power of biology and computers 12/17/2019 Associate Professor Saket Navlakha is bringing ideas about “algorithms in nature” to the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology. Read the story »
The Lab partners with award-winning magazine 12/6/2019 Nautilus, an award-winning science magazine, has partnered with CSHL to bring the story of the lab’s scientists and research to a brand-new audience. Read the story »
Research profile: Adam Siepel 11/12/2019 Adam Siepel, Chair of the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, uses advanced computational methods to solve complex biological questions. Read the story »
Peter Koo wants to understand how machines learn biology 9/20/2019 Dr. Peter Koo joins the CSHL faculty as an assistant professor. His focus is on exploring how artificial intelligence integrates with biology and genomics. Read the story »
Hannah Meyer joins CSHL Quantitative Biology faculty 3/26/2019 Hannah Meyer is the newest Quantitative Biology Fellow at CSHL, studying how our immune system learns to identify and fight pathogens. Read the story »
How does math help us understand the brain? 1/31/2019 An exploration of how computational neuroscientist Tatiana Engel uses math to understand how the brain makes decisions. Read the story »
The big problem of small data: A new approach 10/18/2018 You’ve heard of “big data” but what about small? Researches have crafted a modern approach that could solve a decades-old problem in statistics. Read the story »
Evolving sets of gene regulators explain some of our differences from other primates 1/29/2018 What makes us different from our primate relatives? Gene regulation is one important evolutionary factor Read the story »
The biggest beast in the Big Data forest? One field’s astonishing growth is, well, ‘genomical’! 7/6/2015 Scientists work to figure out how to capture, store, process and interpret all that genome-encoded biological information. Read the story »
CSHL quantitative biologist Michael Schatz awarded 2015 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship 2/20/2015 Associate Professor Michael Schatz receives a 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship Read the story »