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May 7, 2018The Simons Foundation has named four scientists as 2018 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution. The three-year awards are intended to help launch … -
May 4, 2018… Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem and a consultant for the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute. Christopher Walsh is chief of the genetics … -
May 3, 2018SFARI Investigators and SFARI science staff will be giving a number of oral presentations at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2018 Annual Meeting in Rotterdam, Netherlands … -
May 3, 2018SFARI science staff will be presenting a number of posters about SFARI projects and resources at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2018 Annual Meeting in Rotterdam … -
May 3, 2018SFARI is soliciting your feedback about the utility and priority of induced pluripotent (iPS) cells from individuals with high-confidence autism risk variants. Your comments will help us … -
May 2, 2018Six current and former SFARI Investigators are among the 213 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most … -
May 2, 2018SFARI’s requests for grant applications will be undergoing a number of changes in the coming months. These changes include ending the Explorer Award program, updating the Pilot … -
May 1, 2018New data were added to SFARI Gene in April 2018. This data release included updated gene scores for candidate autism risk genes, as well as the addition of … -
April 24, 2018Eleven researchers supported by the Simons Foundation have been elected as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy is one of the oldest and … -
April 20, 2018Yuri Tschinkel, director of the Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division, has been elected to the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences. The honor recognizes … -
April 11, 2018Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
March 23, 2018… Brown University Antonio Montalban University of California, Berkeley Mircea Mustata University of Michigan Alexei Oblomkov University of Massachusetts Amherst Sam Payne Yale University Olga Plamenevskaya Stony Brook … -
March 14, 2018Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
March 9, 2018The Science Sandbox-supported film is scheduled to premiere at the prestigious New York City festival in April -
February 27, 2018Check out these talks, tutorials and workshops featuring investigators from the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain. -
February 23, 2018New Simons VIP Phase 2 data were recently added to SFARI Base. This data release included data from individuals with 16p11.2 copy number variants (CNVs), 1q21.1 … -
February 15, 2018SFARI announces the launch of HumanBase, a Simons Foundation interactive web server for predictions and information about human genes, pathways and disorders. -
February 8, 2018The Flatiron Institute is pleased to announce that Jaeyoon James Jun will join the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) as a postdoctoral fellow with the Numerical Algorithms group. -
February 8, 2018Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
January 11, 2018Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
December 14, 2017SFARI is happy to announce a new addition to the gene-scoring module of SFARI Gene: scores and rankings from an additional six published approaches to evaluating the … -
December 12, 2017Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
December 6, 2017SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded 13 grants in response to the Explorer Awards request for applications this year. -
December 5, 2017SFARI is pleased to announce that it has selected seven finalists in response to the 2017 Bridge to Independence Award request for applications. -
December 4, 2017Three Simons Investigators were honored at the sixth annual Breakthrough Prizes on December 3. Mathematicians Christopher Hacon of the University of Utah and James McKernan of the University … -
November 29, 2017The Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society have awarded the 2018 Max Born Medal and Prize to theoretical physicist Angel Rubio. Rubio is a distinguished research … -
November 9, 2017Traveling to the annual meeting in DC? Check out these talks. -
November 9, 2017Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
October 30, 2017New data were added to SFARI Gene in October 2017. This data release included updated gene scores for candidate autism risk genes, new rodent models and new genes … -
October 30, 2017SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded 32 grants (19 Pilot Awards and 13 Research Awards) in response to the 2017 Pilot and Research Awards request … -
October 30, 2017Professor M. Lisa Manning, MMLS Investigator and PI of the Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem, has been awarded the Maria Goeppert Mayer Prize of the American … -
October 25, 2017A selection of presentations that will be given by past and current SFARI Investigators at Neuroscience 2017 in Washington, D.C., (November 11–15) is highlighted. -
October 23, 2017Science Sandbox launches a newsletter and other new ways to connect. -
October 20, 2017SPARK (Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge) is pleased to announce that whole-exome sequencing (WES) and genotyping data are available for 1,369 and 1,398 … -
October 20, 2017Led by Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program, the new initiative offers grants and other opportunities for emerging nonfiction filmmakers seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science … -
October 18, 2017As part of a campaign to bring science and math outside the classroom, five teachers each win $5,000 for submitting innovative projects -
October 12, 2017The Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute invites researchers on sabbatical to visit the CCA in 2018–2019. Located in New York … -
October 11, 2017Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
October 10, 2017… More than 1,000 visiting scientists have participated in the institute’s semester-long research programs exploring foundational questions in data science, machine learning, evolutionary biology, quantum … -
October 3, 2017The Flatiron Institute is delighted to announce that Alex Barnett has joined the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) as group leader for the Numerical Algorithms group. Barnett is … -
October 2, 2017In this blog post, the SFARI science team provides insight into SFARI’s scientific priorities. A number of experimental design issues to consider when preparing a grant application … -
September 25, 2017Science Sandbox launches a fellowship at Brooklyn’s New Lab designed to develop new projects that connect science, technology and research to society -
September 18, 2017The SFARI Gene website has been redesigned. The updated platform features a streamlined user interface and new data visualizations, which were engineered with the aim of making it … -
September 13, 2017Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
September 7, 2017The new grants focus on larger collaborations, with teams of up to 20 investigators employing a range of technologies and statistical tools. -
September 7, 2017The new institute drives scientific discovery using computational methods. -
September 1, 2017… Cosmology and Gravitational Wave Astronomy groups at the Flatiron Institute, located across the street from the Simons Foundation headquarters in New York City. -
August 24, 2017The image in the blue homepage area shows dominant phytoplankton types during the period 1994-1998, as determined from a high-resolution ocean and ecosystem model. Colors represent …