Current Exchange

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Current Exchange is a blog published by the Meetings & Courses program of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It communicates the science and stories that arise from all of our programs, and is also a forum for discussions on a number of non-science topics that are covered in our meetings and courses. Scroll down to explore our program and meet some of the ~9,000 international scientists that take part in it every year.

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Alice Telesnitsky
University of Michigan
2021 Retroviruses (Virtual)

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One last feature from the 2022 meeting of Retroviruses, and this one is of Harry Taylor, PhD of SUNY Upstate Medical University and two of his lab members, Deanna Clemmer (left) and Yétúndé Káyòdé (center).&n

There is a list of things one can expect from a CSHL meeting--presentations on unpublished works, talks given by a number of early-career researchers, science talk during the coffee breaks, networking at Blackford Bar, and the lobster banquet--but th

We love it when our program participants bring family with them to campus--especially if one of the family members is a baby! Retroviruses meeting participant @rt.schirra is a second-year graduate student in the Pornillos Lab at @uva. Randall is acco

Last week, we hosted the fifth meeting of Regulatory & Non-Coding RNAs and a lot of great photos were tweeted during that meeting; including this one of Jimmy Guo taken by his PI at @caltechedu, Mitch Guttman. Jimmy is a MD-PhD student in the USC

1/2 We hosted The Biology of Genomes last week and it was sold out! In attendance was Peter Flynn, pictured here giving his talk during the Complex Traits and Microbiome session. @flynnp91 is a recently-defended sixth year PhD student in Evoluti

1/2: After meeting virtually for two years, The Biology of Genomes is back in person and the cover of its abstract book celebrates just that! The artwork on this year's cover cleverly connects it with the cover of the first virtual Biology of Genomes

Originally scheduled for 2020, our biohistory meeting on reverse transcriptase finally took place last week! At that meeting was Wendy Kaichun Xu, a recently defended Ph.D. student from Prof. Jaquelin Dudley's lab at @utaustintx. She posted on Twitte

The second meeting of From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys) took place last week. As expected, presenters incorporated interesting imagery to their presentations like this one. This image captured by Dr. Jasmine Berry is of D

If you followed The PARP Family & ADP-ribosylation on Twitter last week, you would've undoubtedly seen Dr. Elise Fouquerel's tweets from the meeting. We reached out to her about one particular post that included this fantastic image taken at the

We hosted The PARP Family & ADP-ribosylation this week and this picture of co-organizer Andreas Ladurner kicking off the biennial meeting (and of the speaker list on the blackboard!) was taken by Anthony Leung. Anthony has participated in a numbe

Neuronal Circuits took over campus this week. As the second meeting we've held in person, the excitement of our return to "normalcy" has not yet worn off and reading the equally excited tweets from participants at our in-pers

This week, we're hosting Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression--our first in-person meeting since 2020. And this is quite serendipitous because this meeting also happens to be the first meeting we transformed into a virtual format so

Before we sign off for the rest of the year, we here at Meetings & Courses want to wish you and your family the happiest holidays. Thank you for the great 2021 season and we hope to see you on campus in the new year.

Flashback Friday to a common post-oral session scene in Grace Auditorium: Participants gathering around the podium to speak with one of the just-finished session's speakers. This week's Telomeres & Telomerase meeting marks the end of our 2021 mee

Last week, our 2021 course season came to a close and our 2021 meeting season will be following suit in a few days. This week was quiet, a kind of calm before the calm. We will miss hosting researchers from around the globe at our almost back-to-back

We're virtually hosting the Plant Genomes, Systems Biology and Engineering meeting this week so we decided to dive into our plant science meeting's photo archive and found this gem! Happy (Flashback) Friday!⁠
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On this day of giving thanks, we'd like to thank our 2021 course and meeting participants for being a part of our year. You’re each the reason behind #whywedowhatwedo. Safe and #HappyThanksgiving from your team at Meetings & Courses.

Flashback Friday to the 2017 Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis course where Elaine Mardis, who has been a co-instructor of this course since 2007, leads one of the many modules reviewed during the two-week course. This ye

Flashback Friday to when the 2018 Scientific Writing Retreat also became a snowy getaway for its participants! Our professional development workshop is held on the stately grounds that is @cshlbanbury and returns next week to assist another batch of

We're hosting Genome Informatics this week and so we took a look at its photo gallery and this moment, taken during the 2017 meeting, caught our attention. This type of interaction is quite common at our in-person meetings: Two (or more) participants