2 Cold Spring Harbor Students Chosen For Prestigious Science Research Program

COLD SPRING HARBOR, NY — Alexander Grosh and Katie Engel, two "outstanding" science research students from Cold Spring Harbor Jr./Sr. High School, were chosen to participate in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Partners for the Future Program, the school district announced.

The students are under the guidance of Director of STEM Brian Taylor and school research teacher Jaak Raudsepp.

The program selects a limited number of juniors who show a strong interest and academic strength in biology, chemistry or computer science from public and private high school on Long Island to participate in this highly competitive program.

This year, 15 students were selected from Long Island high schools. Students are nominated by the
science faculty from their respective high schools. The nominees must submit a written application and are chosen by a CSH Laboratory mentor after a personal interview process.

Students accepted into this very selective program have an opportunity to work with a world class scientist doing cutting edge research.

Both students presented their research at the CSHL Grace Auditorium on March 19. Alexander worked in the Meyer Lab with Rishvanth Kaliappan Prabakar and presented his research on Lineage Tracing Thymic Epithelial Cells Using SCATAC-seq.

Katie worked in the Koo Lab with Peter Koo and presented her research on Rethinking Initialization Strategies for Deep Learning in Genomics.