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The Wikipedia Year of Science is an unprecedented initiative to fill critical gaps in Wikipedia’s science coverage — by rethinking college class assignments and coordinating mass-editing sessions … -
Make science part of culture. Unlock scientific thinking by engaging people with the process of science. We believe that scientific thinking is for everyone, everywhere, every day. Make … -
Visualizations of cosmic collisions by Chris Hayward of the Center for Computational Astrophysics prove inspirational for Terrence Malick’s Imax film Voyage of Time -
Presentations that will be given by SFARI Investigators at Neuroscience 2016 in San Diego (November 12-16) are highlighted. -
Rudolf Jaenisch has developed a method enabling the generation of microglia-like cells from human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells. -
Liqun Luo uses conditional, cell-type-specific RAI1 deletions in mice to assess how loss of RAI1 contributes to neurodevelopmental phenotypes in Smith-Magenis syndrome. -
By assessing human accelerated regions (HARs) in healthy individuals and those with ASD, Chris Walsh shows HARs regulate human social and cognitive behavior and ASD risk. -
… new faculty appointment, a researcher’s institutional start-up funds typically come to an end. Pressure to secure federal grant money may lead to ‘safe’ grant proposals … -
This conclusion and others appear in a report analyzing genome sequence data from 300 individuals from diverse populations -
… chance to play a role in an organization that is highly innovative and wants to push the boundaries of science and discovery. And I am inspired by … -
The Simons Foundation’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon brings new rigor to physics content for the online encyclopedia, laying the groundwork for the Wikipedia Year of Science … -
The Simons Foundation and Math for America donate $250,000 to DonorsChoose.org for #BestSchoolDay — a “flash funding” project. The Simons Foundation and Math for America donate $250 … -
The Wikipedia Year of Science is an unprecedented initiative to fill critical gaps in Wikipedia’s science coverage — by rethinking college class assignments and coordinating mass-editing sessions … -
In 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 … -
This blog post accompanies the “SFARI’s 2017 funding priorities” post. In it, the SFARI science team discusses the application and review process for Pilot and Research Awards. -
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) 2017 Pilot and Research Awards – Request for applications, (2) Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP): New data now available … -
Guerilla Science creates unique science experiences in the arts and music communities -
Hidden in the color of birds and their mating choices, says Rafael Maia of the Simons Society of Fellows, is information that can help elucidate the evolution of … -
New Simons VIP data have recently been added to SFARI Base. This data release includes phenotypic data from individuals with 16p11.2 copy number variants (CNVs), 1q21.1 … -
… mathematical breakthroughs related to the geometric structures associated with exceptional holonomy spaces and also make use of powerful, new tools for analyzing singular spaces. More information about … -
… This strategy is called the bootstrap. The bootstrap idea has its roots in work done in the 1960s on the S-matrix approach to the strong nuclear … -
August 2016 – Present -
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Update on Simons Simplex Collection whole-genome sequencing; Rat and iPSC models for autism research
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Update on Simons Simplex Collection whole-genome sequencing data availability, (2) Rat models for autism research, (3) Induced pluripotent stem … -
Simons Center for Data Analysis scientist Olga Troyanskaya has developed a machine-learning tool that uses neural interaction networks to predict autism risk genes. -
Huda Zoghbi and Stelios Smirnakis investigate how opposing molecular deficits in MeCP2 duplication and Rett syndromes lead to similar behavioral phenotypes. -
Plans are underway to perform whole-genome sequencing of the entire Simons Simplex Collection (SSC). Genomes from 553 families (2,174 genomes) have been sequenced and are available … -
Understanding primes can lead to many applications, but overemphasizing them has its perils -
Evan Eichler reconstructs the evolution of chromosome 16p11.2 and finds most disease-causing rearrangements map within a H. sapiens-specific duplication containing BOLA2. -
… of the state of practical tensor-network calculations and was a unique opportunity to get practical advice on performing advanced calculations by many experts in the field … -
A computational technique will help scientists to better identify genes, developmental stages of the brain, and cellular functions implicated in the disorder -
Beth Stevens shows that, in MeCP2 null mice, microglia excessively eliminate presynaptic inputs, targeting synapses previously weakened by MeCP2 loss in other CNS cell types. -
Autism BrainNet has begun distributing postmortem brain tissue to qualified investigators working on autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Initially, distributed tissue will be restricted to donations previously collected … -
Joseph Gleeson and colleagues have generated a publically accessible whole-exome variome from 1,111 unrelated individuals within the Greater Middle East Variome Consortium. -
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Autism BrainNet begins tissue distribution, (2) SFARI Gene update, (3) A Conversation with Pamela Feliciano, Scientific Director of SPARK, (4 … -
The pre-publication server established a centralized system for distributing scholarly papers -
New data were added to SFARI Gene in June. This data release included the addition of new human genes implicated in autism, new animal models, and new protein … -
Alan Packer, senior scientist at SFARI, discusses a number of recent review articles that provide interesting and complementary overviews of what we currently know about the neurobiology of … -
Pamela Feliciano discusses the motivation behind SPARK and insights gained from the initial phases of the project. -
The 2012 Abel Prize winner, Endre Szemerédi is a Hungarian-American mathematician who has made several discoveries in combinatorics and computer science. -
The experiment will use cryogenic calorimetry to clinch the first direct detection of the relic particles -
… interests, they can discover connections that might exist. Once in a while, one stumbles upon unexpected connections between two areas that greatly benefit both.” Much of Khot … -
The LENA System allows researchers to record the language an individual with autism uses in everyday life and may improve our understanding of how children with autism communicate -
SFARI Investigators have been developing statistical analyses to identify genes associated with autism -
July 2016 – Present