A Short Guide to the Human Genome

This convenient handbook, written in question-and-answer format, allows researchers and teachers alike access to basic facts about the human genome.

Life Illuminated: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor, Volume 2 (1972-1994)

From the late 1960s through the early 1990s, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was directed by James Watson. This volume highlights 34 of the 1500 research papers published during that golden period, which are reproduced (on a CD) with commentaries from the scientists who did the work.

Grounds for Knowledge: A Guide to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Landscapes and Buildings

Grounds for Knowledge is an engaging and knowledgeable guide to CSH Laboratory’s buildings both historic and new, and to the 150 species of trees that surround them. The superb color photography and detailed maps invite exploration of the newly designated Bungtown Botanical Garden. Buildings and landscapes of nearby Lab campuses in Woodbury, Lloyd Harbor, and Cold Spring Harbor are covered as well.

Clocks and Rhythms

Based on presentations by world-renowned investigators at the 72nd annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, this volume reviews the latest advances in biological clocks and rhythms.

Invertebrate Neurobiology

“[T]he book will be a useful source of information for researchers, as well as for teachers in preparing advanced level lectures. I recommend that every Neuroscientist ensures they have access to it”

Evolution

“The book has many strengths. The prose is crisp and explanations are rigorous but clear. The authors do not hesitate to discuss complex ideas or to provide appropriate caveats about the certainty of our knowledge. The Figures are useful and abundant...The expertise of the authors in quantitative, population, and developmental genetics is obvious; explanations are often less formal than in other texts, but at the same time are more sophisticated and more intuitive. The chapters on diversity include a detailed but engaging introduction to the genetics and genomics of bacterial and archaeal diversity, the origins of multicellularity, and the evolution of novelty inferred from both fossil data and from developmental biology. Although I had assured myself that I would not read the text word-for-word, I found myself deeply immersed in many chapters and read them from beginning to end. The material was not new (for me), but the descriptions and explanations seemed fresher and more compelling than in other current evolution texts. The explicit focus on questions at the molecular level determines the use of examples throughout the text, but these examples come from basic biology, not biomedical science. This book will be particularly attractive to molecular biologists who want to learn the details of evolutionary pattern and process. It may also be the book of choice for evolutionary biology graduate students with interests in population genetics, “evo-devo,” and molecular evolution.”

An Introduction to Nervous Systems

“Greenspan blends descriptions of invertebrate behavior with lessons on fundamental principles of molecular, cellular, and network neurobiology. He covers a broad span of topics, ranging from the ionic basic of resting and action potentials to the astounding computational abilities of insect brains. His well-written and occasionally humorous prose often reads more like a mystery novel than a textbook. The ‘mysteries’ start as ‘gee whiz’ behavior stories, which are unraveled by explaining their underlying biochemical, ionic, and synaptic mechanisms...

This will be a good introduction to excite undergraduate students into further neuroscience exploration, and to inspire and initiate graduate students into an evolutionary and neuroethological perspective, as well as its experimental paradigms. I did not learn many new facts by reading this book, but I am able to think more broadly about the origin, structure, and function of nervous systems.”