Directors of CSHL
| Bashford Dean | Biolab | 1890-91 |
| Herbert Conn | Biolab | 1891-97 |
| Charles Davenport | Biolab | 1898-24 |
| Station for Exp. Evol | 1904-21 | |
| ERO | 1910-21 | |
| CIW Dept. of Genetics | 1921-34 | |
| Albert Blakeslee | CIW Dept. of Genetics | 1934-41 |
| Milislav Demerec | CIW Dept. of Genetics | 1941-60 |
| LIBA | 1941-60 | |
| Berwind Kaufmann | CIW Dept of Genetics | 1960-62 |
| Alfred Hershey | CIW Genetics Res. Unit | 1962-71 |
| Reginald Harris | LIBA | 1924-36 |
| Eric Ponder | LIBA | 1936-41 |
| Arthur Chovnick | LIBA | 1960-62 |
| H. Edwin Umbarger | CSHLLQB | 1962-63 |
| John Cairns | CSHLLQB | 1963-68 |
| James Watson |
CSHLLQB | 1968-94 |
| CSHL | 1968-94 | |
| Bruce Stillman | CSHL | 1994-Present |
Institution Names
| Biolab | Department of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences |
| Station for Experimental Evolution | Department of Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| ERO | Eugenics Records Office |
| CIW | Carnegie Institute of Washington |
| CIW Dept. of Genetics or Genetics Res. Unit | Formed by merger of Station for Experimental Evolution and Eugenics Records Office |
| LIBA | Long Island Biological Association |
| CSHLLQB | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology |
| CSHL | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
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