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SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to award ten grants in response to the 2022 Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science request for applications. -
Three Science Sandbox awardees will be featured in a Science Sandbox-curated SXSW EDU -
Computational models are empowering researchers to understand observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, painting a virtual picture of the early universe. -
With leaps in technology and exchanges between two fields, the most exciting time in the intersection of mathematics and biology is right now. -
By learning the language of Mongolian gerbils, neurostatistician Alex Williams is studying the ways our brains’ neural circuits change over time. -
Long-term recordings of large populations of neurons reveal neural motifs representing internal states. -
Studies by two different research teams — one led by Ethan Greenblatt and the other by Emily Osterweil — both suggest that FXS cells under-synthesize large proteins, findings that … -
Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond. -
To further our goal of funding the best and most transformative research on autism, SFARI strives to strike a balance between open requests for grant applications (RFAs) on … -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recognized three outstanding current and former members of the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) with the NIH Director’s … -
Alain Aspect, a Principal Investigator for the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves, received the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics along with John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger … -
Developmental biologist Jasmin Imran Alsous knows that it takes a village to raise an egg cell. At the Flatiron Institute, she and her collaborators are working together to … -
Guided by a long-held interest in brain function and behavior, Simons Junior Fellow Carla Golden is exploring the role that estrogen plays in the brain’s ability … -
Researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues trained a machine learning tool to capture the physics of electrons moving on a lattice using far fewer equations than … -
By examining the neuroinflammation and cognitive issues that can follow COVID infection in human studies and animal models, scientists are highlighting parallels to aging and neurodegenerative disease. -
… angle. Further data collected in the following months confirmed that the hypothesis supported in this work is indeed correct. Cantiello joined the foundation in 2017 as associate … -
Recent advances in functional connectomics are shedding new light on circuit motifs in the worm, fly and mouse brains. -
Flatiron Institute’s Jennifer Cano is part of an international team that demonstrates a design principle for predicting whether metallic compounds are likely to host topological states caused … -
Novel tools for studying cnidarians’ distributed neural nets enable researchers to explore how neural ensembles form and interact. -
Flatiron applied mathematician Jason Kaye is bringing powerful new approaches to quantum physicists to help them answer big questions about small particles. -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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The International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories has awarded the Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics to quantum physicist Aavishkar Patel. The … -
Antoine Georges, the director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), received the Feenberg Memorial Medal on September 14 at the International Conference Series … -
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Our new Science Sandbox Spotlight series aims to highlight the people behind the organizations in our grantee portfolio. In the series’ first installment, we speak with Ran Yan … -
… approaches on a problem of high agricultural significance. -
SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund 16 grants in response to the 2022 Pilot Award request for applications. -
Is there another Earth out there? Flatiron Institute astronomer Megan Bedell is on the hunt for Earth 2.0. And she’s making new discoveries about sunlike stars … -
Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.
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… cognitive function even late in life — a phenomenon known as cognitive resilience. While the causes of age-related cognitive degeneration are largely unknown, heritability estimates indicate a … -
The Simons Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation are inviting applications to a one-time call aimed … -
SFARI hosted a virtual workshop on March 14 and 18, 2022, to discuss the best practices for the development and use of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell models … -
New zebrafish lines with mutations in the high-confidence autism risk genes DYRK1A and GRIN2B have been added to SFARI resources. -
Simons Junior Fellow Tim Large studies the mathematics underlying the spaces that control planetary orbits and the physical laws of motion. -
Phenotypic data from 296,307 participants enrolled in SPARK, including 117,203 individuals with ASD, are now available to approved researchers. Genomic data (whole-exome sequencing and genome … -
Clinical Research Associates, L.L.C., an affiliate of the Simons Foundation, has recently launched a randomized controlled trial to test the safety, tolerability and efficacy of arbaclofen … -
In a series of articles published in the journal Nature Genetics, researchers used data from the SPARK research cohort, which was created to advance our understanding of the … -
At the Flatiron Institute, Christopher Park studies how mutations in RNA might play a role in neuropsychiatric conditions like autism, schizophrenia and ADHD. -
Suzanne Staggs, a physicist at Princeton University and founding member of the Simons Observatory, describes what cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation can reveal about the early universe. -
… galaxies’ evolution and create predictions for future observations. “One thing we still don’t really understand is how they formed so quickly,” says Yung. “They’re only … -
Physicists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics and their collaborators have created a new way to simulate quantum entanglement between interacting particles. Their approach … -
Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.
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Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.