SFARI presentations at INSAR 2019

Image of Kathryn Roeder giving a presentation.
Keynote speaker Kathryn Roeder is the UPMC Professor of Statistics and Life Sciences in the Department of Statistics and Data Science and vice provost for faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.
A number of presentations will be given by SFARI Investigators and SFARI staff at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2019 Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada (May 1-4).

A selection of these talks is highlighted below:
 

Thursday, May 2, 2019

Pamela Feliciano, Ph.D. (Simons Foundation)
Oral session presentation:
Exome sequencing in 8,737 families affected by autism spectrum disorder

Michael J. Gandal, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
Panel presentation:
Patterns of shared and distinct transcriptomic dysregulation across psychiatric disorders

Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
Panel presentation:
Single cell sequencing and integrative analysis of epigenetic and transcriptomic profiling in ASD

Matthew S. Goodwin, Ph.D. (Northeastern University)
Panel presentation:
Automated detection and characterization of stereotypical motor movements and their relation to cardiovascular arousal

Abha R. Gupta, M.D., Ph.D. (Yale University)
Oral session presentation:
The genetics of childhood disintegrative disorder

Jason Lerch, Ph.D. (University of Oxford, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto)
Panel presentation:
Disrupted cerebellar–cerebrocortical circuits in ASD models and in ASD

Paul H. Lipkin, M.D. (Kennedy Krieger Institute)
Oral session presentation:
Autism spectrum disorder and suicidal behaviors: Medications and services utilization

Catherine Lord, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
INSAR award ceremony – Lifetime achievement address

Jonathan Mill, Ph.D. (University of Exeter Medical School)
Panel presentation:
Epigenetic pathways to neurodevelopment phenotypes

Kathryn Roeder, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon University)
Keynote address:
De novo variation in coding and noncoding regions: What we can learn from the data about etiological pathways

Robert T. Schultz, Ph.D. (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania)
Panel presentation:
Computer vision analyses of social coordination and social communication deficits in autism

Peter Tsai, M.D., Ph.D. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Panel presentation:
Dissection of cerebellar-cerebro cortical circuits in ASD reveals therapeutic opportunities for circuit modulation
 

Image of Daniel Geschwind giving a presentation.
Daniel Geschwind holds the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics and is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. He is director of the neurogenetics program and the Center for Autism Research and Treatment and codirector of the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics.

Friday, May 3, 2019

Marta Benedetti, Ph.D. (Simons Foundation)
Sponsor presentation:
Simons Foundation update

Lisa A. Croen, Ph.D. (Kaiser Permanente)
Panel presentation:
Are health care providers ready to transition teens with autism spectrum disorders to adult care? A survey of clinical providers in California

Adriana Di Martino, M.D. (The Child Mind Institute)
Panel presentation:
Are there reproducible and replicable connectivity patterns in the intrinsic ASD connectome?

Alessandro Gozzi, Ph.D. (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
Panel presentation:
Mapping the neuro-connectional landscape in autism with cross-species fMRI

Tal Kenet, Ph.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Panel presentation:
Using MEG to measure rhythm specific functional connectivity in ASD

Jason Lerch, Ph.D. (University of Oxford, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto)
Keynote address:
Of many autisms or one neurodevelopmental disorder

Matthew D. Lerner, Ph.D. (Stony Brook University)
Panel presentation:
A single-blind RCT of an evidence-based social skills intervention for youth with ASD: Effects on behavioral and neural indices of social functioning

Paul H. Lipkin, M.D. (Kennedy Krieger Institute)
Panel presentation:
Screening for suicide risk in children with autism and related disabilities in a pediatric autism center

Karen Pierce, Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego)
Panel presentation:
Using gaze contingent technology to characterize a toddler’s preference for motherese speech: Towards eye-tracking based biomarkers of ASD within the first years of life

Oral presentation:
Testing the efficacy of the Get SET early model as a mechanism to reduce the mean age of ASD detection and treatment referral

Kathryn Roeder, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon University)
Panel presentation:
Rare de novo and common variations affect liability to autism

Stephen W. Scherer, Ph.D. (The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto)
Panel presentation:
Whole genome sequencing in autism

Frederick Shic, Ph.D. (Seattle Children’s Research Institute, University of Washington)
Panel presentation:
Diminished salience of speech underlies diminished face looking in toddlers with ASD: An eye-tracking study
 

Image of the SFARI booth at INSAR 2018
SFARI, SPARK and Autism BrainNet will have booths in the exhibition hall. Please stop-by and chat with us to learn more about SFARI-funded resources and research studies as well as future funding opportunities.

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Joseph Buxbaum, Ph.D. (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Panel presentation:
Molecular and cellular analyses across three autism-associated genetic disorders

Mayada Elsabbagh, Ph.D. (McGill University)
Panel presentation:
Facilitators and barriers to implementation of manualized interventions in community based settings

Alexander Kolevzon, M.D. (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Panel presentation:
ECHO model for remote delivery of care for Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS): The PMS Neuropsychiatric Consultation Group

Alexandre Reymond, Ph.D. (University of Lausanne)
Panel presentation:
Using rare variants, animal models and Mendelian randomization to pinpoint causative genes

Latha Soorya, Ph.D. (Rush University Medical Center)
Panel presentation:
Initial phenotypic characterization across three developmental synaptopathies

 
SFARI staff will also be presenting several posters about SFARI projects and resources, including the latest results from SPARK.  Click here for more details.

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