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New Simons Searchlight data were recently added to SFARI Base. The data released included phenotypic data from individuals with 16p11.2 copy number variant (CNVs), 1q21.1 CNVs …

… other members of the Simons Foundation staff. Ultimately, the Simons Foundation accepted every application it received and extended the application period as many scientists lost power and …

First place for this year’s Buchalter Cosmology Prize went to a paper co-authored by Colin Hill, until recently a Flatiron Institute associate research scientist and currently …

… nominations. “Fire of Love” was produced by Sandbox Films, Intuitive Pictures and Cottage M and distributed by National Geographic Documentary Films and Neon. “Fire of Love” is …

… International Outgoing Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham …

… hydrodynamics, optics, quantum mechanics and electrodynamics. Biology: Microbiomes The theme of the 2023 lecture series in biology is “Microbiomes.” Microscopic lifeforms live just about everywhere on Earth …

… the Genetics Society of America (GSA), having served as GSA president in 2022. Today, she continues to serve on several GSA committees, including the public communication and …

Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.

Phenotypic data from 310,649 participants enrolled in SPARK, including 123,444 individuals with ASD, are now available to approved researchers. Genomic data (whole-exome sequencing and genome …

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that neurobiologist and geneticist Cori Bargmann has joined its board of directors. Bargmann is the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head …

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

… from candidates with backgrounds in neuroscience, molecular biology, genetics, immunology, cell biology and the physical and information sciences. Applications are open to individuals from racial, ethnic and …

Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

Leveraging the new machine’s speed and parallel processing, researchers will apply machine-learning techniques to open questions in science.

… share data, code, analysis pipelines, protocols and reagents with the broader community. The foundation expects proposals to include junior investigators and investigators from a diversity of academic …

The new meeting space is named for Marion Greenup, the foundation’s vice president of administration.

Check out these presentations from SCGB PIs and trainees at the SFN conference November 12-16.

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

With leaps in technology and exchanges between two fields, the most exciting time in the intersection of mathematics and biology is right now.

Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

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 …

… 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 …

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

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 …

… Zhang Columbia University

… 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.

Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.

… 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 …

New zebrafish lines with mutations in the high-confidence autism risk genes DYRK1A and GRIN2B have been added to SFARI resources.

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 …

Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

SFARI is pleased to announce that it has selected seven fellows in response to the 2022 Bridge to Independence Award request for applications.

New phenotypic data from Simons Searchlight participants were recently added to SFARI Base. This release includes data from individuals with 59 gene changes and nine copy number variants …

Theater of the Mind, an immersive experience that journeys “inside the human brain,” will soon premiere in Denver.

Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond.

Three talented early-career scientists in systems and computational neuroscience have been selected as the first Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain Transition to Independence fellows …

… behaviors. Ran is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. His research will further investigate how visceral organs are represented throughout the brain, and how viscerosensory codes …

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.