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… York City–based campus focused on graduate education that integrates technology, business, law and design in service of economic impact and societal good. Morrisett’s research focuses … -
Seven researchers supported by the Simons Foundation and board member Margaret Hamburg are among the latest group of prominent artists, scholars, scientists and leaders elected as fellows of … -
Time began at the Big Bang — or did it? Alternative ideas, including a universe that repeatedly reboots itself, suggest something came before the Big Bang. -
In the wake of massive lab shutdowns, systems and computational neuroscientists are figuring out how to continue their work without performing experiments. -
Caltech’s Yanbei Chen describes how he uses data from LIGO and other instruments to probe relativity and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. -
Despite numerous breakthroughs into the causes of autism, many mysteries about the condition remain. -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
Solving the mysteries of the brain requires reverse engineering the rules and patterns that control it. -
Individual neurons and regions of the brain can encode surprisingly strange combinations of information. -
High-throughput DNA sequencing and other technologies help Lucy Colwell, a lecturer of chemistry at the University of Cambridge, design and discover entirely new kinds of proteins. -
The Columbia University neuroscientist, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on memory, explains why the biology of the mind continues to fascinate him. -
Organizers mimic in-person networking using a matching algorithm. -
How the Simonses developed their own algorithm for excellence in science philanthropy. -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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SFARI reminds all approved Principal Investigators that the use of data sets and/or biospecimens obtained from the SFARI Simons Collection is subject to certain limitations and that … -
SFARI Investigator Karen Parker discusses her preclinical and clinical research on the neuropeptides arginine vasopressin and oxytocin as potential biomarkers and treatment strategies for autism spectrum disorder. -
SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund 11 grants in response to the Winter 2020 Pilot Award request for applications. -
In her studies of quantum field theory, Rachel Rosen of Columbia University tackles the black-hole information paradox, alternatives to Einstein’s theory of gravity and other puzzles … -
Joseph Gleeson and colleagues used deep whole-genome sequencing and genotyping of sperm DNA to stratify ASD risk in offspring due to de novo mutation. -
Ofer Yizhar and colleagues described the altered dynamics of social representation in neurons of the medial prefrontal cortex of Cntnap2-null mice, a model of autism spectrum disorder. -
SFARI is writing to assure you that the health and well-being of your lab members is very much in our minds during the COVID-19 epidemic. We … -
Gloria Choi, Jun Huh and colleagues showed that postnatal administration of IL-17a can rescue some of the anatomical and behavioral deficits observed in a maternal immune activation … -
The director of the Simons Observatory describes the origin of the observatory, which aims to explain the origin of the universe. -
SFARI is pleased to announce that 10 Director Awards were awarded in 2019. These projects include, but are not limited to, studies that aim to enhance existing SFARI … -
To speed discovery, SFARI decided to break the traditional approach in which each laboratory collects its own datasets and keeps them close to the vest. -
On June 22, 2019, families of people with DYRK1A syndrome gathered in Seattle to support one another and meet with researchers. A rare condition resulting from mutations to … -
Two species of zebras sharing the same habitat have very different social patterns. Just how selection pressure from food, parasites, predators and other factors affect their behavior is … -
Seven general criteria and considerations are top of mind when we decide on collaborations to support. -
By bringing researchers together to focus on specific scientific goals, we hope to accelerate the pace of discovery. -
The institute has grown from a beautiful proposal into a bustling hub for computational science in astrophysics, biology, mathematics and quantum physics. -
… ahead, with IBM, Google and Intel announcing devices with dozens of qubits made of superconducting circuits. Quantum supremacy, the demonstration of a calculation that a conventional computer … -
Why upgrading your computer every two years no longer makes sense. -
We asked the foundation’s distinguished scientist, who joined us in 2006 to lead the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), to reflect on the initiative and its … -
David Spergel, director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), is among 232 astronomers and astrophysicists honored as the first class of fellows of the American Astronomical Society … -
No one really knows how neural networks work, but a ‘DeepMath’ group of mathematicians, physicists, neuroscientists and engineers are trying to figure out how to decipher their powers. -
Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
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Michael Long uses discoveries from songbirds, singing mice and other species to better understand different aspects of vocal communication. -
SFARI has recently implemented a number of changes to SFARI Gene, including modification of the gene scoring, copy number variant, animal models and protein interaction modules. Curation of … -
Michael Halassa, Guoping Feng and colleagues identified a combinatorial strategy to reverse noise hypersensitivity in Ptchd1 knockout mice, while Stephen Scherer, James Ellis and colleagues separately explored the … -
Mark Daly and colleagues used an exome sequencing data set of ASD and ADHD to identify a similar profile of rare protein-truncating variants in each disorder. -
… Elizabeth Meckes Case Western Reserve University Hee Oh Yale University Richard Schwartz Brown University Karl Schwede University of Utah Konstantinos Spiliopoulos Boston University Bianca Viray University of … -
The push to gain a deep understanding of the genetics and neurobiology of autism has forced scientists to reexamine three ideas about the condition. -
When it comes to the composition of the universe, we’ve made significant progress in finding out how little we know. -
On August 2–3, 2019, people from around the world met in Seattle, Washington, to review recent findings about mutations to the sodium channel encoded by SCN2A. Organized … -
Describing many-body quantum systems is generally next to impossible, physicists thought — until they realized that localized entanglement holds the key. -
RADIAL VELOCITY (‘WOBBLE’) METHOD Stars with planets will gravitationally tug on one another. A star’s wobble toward an observer blueshifts the observed light; movement away redshifts it … -
Rocky planets inside, gas giants outside — we thought our solar system was typical. But the discovery of worlds around other stars has altered that view. -
Check out these talks and workshops featuring Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain, investigators, fellows and friends.