2015 ANNUAL REPORT Executive Summary 2015 ANNUAL REPORT Executive Summary CONTENTS 2 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 7 RESEARCH Research Activities, 8 Research Investigators, 9 Research Highlights, 10 15 EDUCATION Educational Activities, 16 Education Highlights, 17 Meetings & Courses Program, 22 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conferences, 22 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Courses, 24 Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences, 25 Banbury Center Meetings, 26 Front cover Photograph by Derek Hayn/Centerbrook Watson School of Biological Sciences, 27 This report is written and produced by CSHL Press Publications, 28 the Department of Public Affairs of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. For more information, 29 FINANCIAL REPORTS please contact: Chief Operating Officer’s Report, 30 Public Affairs Financial Statements, 32 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Consolidated Balance Sheet, 32 One Bungtown Road Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 Consolidated Statement of Activities, 33 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows, 34 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a 516.367.8455 private, not-for-profit research and education
[email protected] www.cshl.edu 35 INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT institution at the forefront of efforts in molecular Institutional Highlights, 36 biology and genetics to generate knowledge Vice President, Communications Dagnia Zeidlickis Honor Roll of Donors, 37 that will yield better diagnostics and treatments Community Support, 42 for cancer, neurological diseases, and other Managing Editors Phil Renna Board of Trustees, 43 major causes of human suffering. Peter Tarr, Ph.D. Laboratory Leadership, 44 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE to “spread the grants as widely as possible,” a form of scientific socialism that does not bode well for the fu- ture of American science. At the same time, however, opportunities abound in many areas of science, includ- ing cancer, neuroscience, plant biology and quantitative biology—areas of focus at Cold Spring Harbor.