Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Posted by Evan Brooks, on 4 February 2026

Key Dates:

Application Deadline: March 13, 2026

Arrival: June 1st by 6pm EST

Departure: June 21st around 12pm EST

Instructors:

Danelle Devenport, Princeton University

Loydie Jerome-Majewska, McGill University, Canada

Co-Instructors:

Matthew Anderson, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD

Katherine Fantauzzo, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO

This lecture and laboratory course is designed for scientists, typically at the early principal investigator, postdoctoral or graduate stages, interested in using mouse models to study mammalian development, stem cells and cancer. The lecture portion of the course, taught by leaders in the field, provides the conceptual basis for contemporary research in embryogenesis, organogenesis in development and disease, embryonic, adult and induced pluripotent stem cells and cancer biology.

The laboratory and workshop portions of the course provide hands-on introduction to engineering of mouse models, stem cell technologies and tissue analyses.

Experimental techniques include:

CRISPR/Cas9 editing and allele design
Zygote microinjection and embryo transfer
Isolation, culture, manipulation of pre and post-implantation embryos
Zygote and embryo electroporation
In vivo electroporation for somatic cancer modeling
Embryo roller bottle culture
In vitro fertilization
Fluorescent RNA in situ hybridization
Immunofluorescence
Skeletal preparation
Live imaging and confocal microscopy

2026 Invited Speakers
Ripla Arora, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Richard Behringer, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Jeffrey Bush, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Katie Cockburn, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY
Diana Laird, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Ai Ing Lim, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Francesca Mariani, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Kate McDole, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Steve Murray, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, MD
Virginia Papaioannou, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Eszter Posfai, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Pedro Rocha, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Shyam Sharan, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Frederick, MD
Berna Sozen, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Rolf Stottmann, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Kaelyn Sumigray, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Xin Sun, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Paul Trainor, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City
Steven Vokes, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Yojiro Yamanaka, Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Information regarding cost, financial support, and the application process can be found at the Mouse Development, Stem Cells, and Cancer course website.