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Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
The Boston Museum of Science puts diversity, inclusion and relationship building front and center in 2021 programming. -
… Webby winner, NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration website. -
CCM’s Alex H. Barnett, Joakim Andén Among Authors To Win Best Paper Award at the PDSEC-21 Conference
CCM’s Alex Barnett and Joakim Andén along with collaborators at NYU, Princeton University, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have received the Best Paper Award at … -
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: the scarcity of planets roughly … -
Worms have a rich repertoire of learning and memory behavior, which worsens with age. Scientists are unpacking the molecular mechanisms of that loss in hopes of finding ways … -
Among the most challenging aspects of autism is a variety of aural speech processing issues that deeply impact individuals’ language abilities. -
Seizures are an extreme outcome of excitatory-inhibitory imbalance and are the most common neurological complication in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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Using neural networks, Flatiron Institute research fellow Yin Li and his colleagues simulated vast, complex universes in a fraction of the time it takes with conventional methods. -
Seven researchers affiliated with the Simons Foundation have been elected as 2021 members of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers are among 120 new members and 30 … -
Six researchers who have received support from the Simons Foundation are among the latest group of prominent artists, scholars, scientists and leaders elected as fellows of the American … -
New Simons Searchlight data were recently added to SFARI Base. This data release included phenotypic data from individuals with 16p11.2 copy number variants (CNVs), 1q21.1 CNVs … -
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, SFARI ran the fall 2020 science meeting virtually in a series of six weekly webinars, beginning on October 2, 2020. SFARI investigators presented … -
… to evoke immune responses to key parts of these relatively large organisms—bacteria and parasites being much bigger than viruses. Merging vaccinology and immunology With a better … -
Sylvain Carpentier, who is completing his tenure as a Simons Junior Fellow, has discovered new ways to promote the beauty of mathematics — both in its own right and … -
In an excerpt from her upcoming book, Grace Lindsay explores early theories for what motor cortex cells encode, where those theories went astray, and how today’s researchers … -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.
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Scientists are exploring how synaptic pruning, a process critical to brain function in childhood, may go awry as we age — and whether targeting the cells and immune molecules … -
Aquí Nos Cuidamos puts science in service of marginalized communities in Puerto Rico and equips communities with the tools they need to combat COVID-19. -
In a pair of studies, researchers use a novel way of examining data to explain how animals simultaneously encode tiny details and the big picture. -
SFARI Investigator Aakanksha Singhvi discusses her lab’s work and how the Bridge to Independence Award helped in her transition to working as an assistant professor. -
… of Computer Science. Tal has served as a member of the SIGACT Executive Board and a council member of the Computing Community Consortium. Tal is an ACM … -
… to measure how mutations in the coronavirus’s spike proteins, which adorn its surface like a crown, help SARS-CoV-2 evade the immune system. His team … -
… Peru documented a 278-fold higher biting rate by mosquitos in deforested areas, compared with relatively pristine sites. Cases of malaria rose as mosquitos reproduced quickly in … -
We still have a lot to learn about how our cells retain memories and drive our behavior. Using an unlikely source of information, Simons Junior Fellow Leah Houri … -
… research have to do with getting you, personally, to the position where you are now—where you’re widely admired and looked to for advice by a … -
… think moving towards the future that we all like to live in, even aside from scarcity and shortages during pandemic times, we as a society should still … -
SFARI is pleased to announce that eight Director Awards were awarded in 2020. These projects include, but are not limited to, studies that aim to enhance existing SFARI … -
Stefano Panzeri and colleagues used neuroimaging-derived measures to assess the sex differential impact of excitation/inhibition imbalance in idiopathic ASD. -
Graeme Davis and colleagues showed that ASD risk genes genetically interact with a class of common modifiers of presynaptic homeostatic plasticity at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction. -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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A many-method study of the Hubbard model demonstrates how the field of computational quantum physics is evolving to be more collaborative. -
… the sheet of follicle cells that surrounds it. “These two tissue types need to grow together, and later, the follicle cells that stay over the nurse cells … -
Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.
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Success in flies and worms has inspired several efforts to reconstruct more complex mammalian brain circuits. Reconstructing a whole mouse brain using electron microscopy is the next logical … -
The Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem met remotely to provide research highlights from the past year. Collaboration director Sidney Nagel provided a collaboration overview, followed by … -
Mounting evidence points to a central culprit behind the normal cognitive decline we see during aging: the formation of protein aggregates in the brain -
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex brain condition with a developmental etiology rooted in corticogenesis. -
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that 12 outstanding early-career scientists have joined the Simons Society of Fellows as the program’s latest class of Junior … -
BRAIN Initiative researchers developed a virtual format to foster data-sharing among experimental and computational projects. -
At the Flatiron Institute, researchers across domains have access to powerful processors and a team of computing specialists. -
Atypical sensory experience is a core feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and is strongly determinant of other ASD traits.
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In order for the brain to carry out its complex functions, gene expression must be precisely controlled at the levels of transcription and translation.
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Social attachments form the basis of human relationships at every level of social organization, from relationships between parents and children, romantic partners, to peers and group affiliation.
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SFARI’s requests for grant applications (RFAs) will be undergoing a number of changes in 2021. These changes include the introduction of the new Human Cognitive and Behavioral … -
Functional genomic analyses of the developing human brain have revealed highly dynamic spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression and epigenetic changes during prenatal and early postnatal development and across … -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.