Newsletter Archive

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) 2018 Bridge to Independence awardees announced, (2) A new version of SFARI Base has launched, (3) SFARI Gene: New data release, (4) SFARI workshop discussed digital tools for phenotyping cognition and behavior in autism spectrum and other brain disorders, (5) SFARI-funded publications, (6) 2019 Research Awards – Request for applications, (7) Past lecture: André Fenton, “Rethinking autism and animal models: A systems perspective”, (8) Past lecture: Pawan Sinha and Dagmar Sternad, “The predictive impairment hypothesis in autism: An empirical assessment”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SFARI 2018 Explorer awardees announced, (2) Research opportunities at family meetings of rare, genetic developmental disorders, (3) SFARI workshop revisited the excitation-inhibition hypothesis of autism, (4) SFARI workshop highlighted chromatin-associated proteins and autism risk, (5) 2019 SPARK Clinical Site Network – Request for applications, (6) 2019 Research Awards – Request for applications, (7) Upcoming lecture: André Fenton, “Rethinking autism and animal models: A systems perspective”, (8) Upcoming lecture: Pawan Sinha and Dagmar Sternad, “The predictive impairment hypothesis in autism: An empirical assessment”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Presentations by SFARI Investigators at Neuroscience 2018, (2) Simons VIP: New data release, (3) AIMS-2-Trials has launched, (4) A Conversation with Paul Wang, Deputy Director of Clinical Research Associates, (5) 2019 SPARK Clinical Site Network – Request for Applications, (6) SFARI Social at Neuroscience 2018, (7) Past lecture: Richard Lifton, “From genes and genomes to biology and health”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SFARI 2018 Pilot and Research awardees announced, (2) SFARI Gene: New data release, (3) SFARI spring 2018 science meeting discussed latest developments in autism research, (4) SFARI workshop discusses zebrafish as experimental systems to study autism, (5) Winter 2019 Pilot Awards - Request for applications, (6) Upcoming lecture: Evdokia Anagnostou, “Thinking differently about neurodevelopment disorders and autism: Lumping vs. splitting”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Winter 2019 Pilot Awards – Request for applications, (2) SFARI scientific perspectives, (3) SFARI RFA reboot: Why, what and how, (4) Drosophila and zebrafish models added to SFARI Gene, (5) SFARI Investigators elected to the National Academy of Sciences, (6) Workshop highlights online platforms for visualizing and exploring SFARI genomics data, (7) Genomic analysis for autism risk variants in SPARK – Request for applications, (8) 2018 Bridge to Independence Award – Request for applications, (9) Past lecture: Matthew State, “Autism genetics: Where have we been and where are we going?”, (10) Past lecture: Jennifer A. Doudna, “CRISPR systems: Editing the code of life”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Upcoming changes to SFARI’s requests for grant applications, (2) SFARI Gene: New data release, (3) SFARI Investigators elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, (4) SFARI booths at INSAR 2018, (5) SFARI presentations at INSAR 2018, (6) Special Interest Group at INSAR 2018: Promoting partnerships between patient advocacy groups and researchers to improve autism research, (7) Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell survey.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SPARK's first year: A new paper describes goals and milestones, (2) Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP): New data release, (3) SFARI announces the launch of HumanBase, (4) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (5) Upcoming lecture: Elise Robinson, "The NeuroDev collaboration: Building autism spectrum disorder cohorts of international research value in Kenya and South Africa", (6) Past lecture: Shafali Spurling Jeste: "On the road to precision health: Brain-based biomarkers in autism spectrum disorder", (7) Past lecture: Matthew Siegel, "Arousal, emotion regulation and challenging behaviors: Insights from the Autism Inpatient Collection", (8) Past lecture: Daniel Geschwind, "Autism genetics: Searching for coherence".

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Third-party gene scores added to SFARI Gene, (2) SFARI Explorer Awards - Request for Applications, (3) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (4) Upcoming lecture: Shafali Spurling Jeste, "On the road to precision health: Brain-based biomarkers in autism spectrum disorder", (5) Past lecture: Matthew Siegel, "Arousal, emotion regulation and challenging behaviors: Insights from the Autism Inpatient Collection".