Which laboratory hosted James Watson's genome workshop two months after Dulbecco's essay?

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory hosted James Watson’s genome workshop two months after Renato Dulbecco’s 1986 essay proposing human-genome sequencing. The meeting helped move the idea from an ambitious scientific proposal toward an organized national project.

Dulbecco’s essay, published in Science, argued that sequencing the human genome could transform cancer research by revealing the genetic basis of disease. Watson, one of the scientists associated with the discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure, followed with a workshop at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

The workshop was one of several early origins of the Human Genome Project. Robert Sinsheimer had organized an earlier 1985 meeting at the University of California, Santa Cruz, while Charles DeLisi and David Smith organized the 1986 Santa Fe Workshop with support connected to the U.S. Department of Energy. These efforts converged into the federally funded HGP, formally launched in 1990.

A common mix-up is to name the Salk Institute because Dulbecco was its president and the essay grew from his cancer-research interests. The question asks where Watson’s later workshop was held, making Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory the single canonical answer.