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".

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) 2017 SFARI Pilot and Research, Explorer and Bridge to Independence Awards announced, (2) Simons Simplex Collection, (3) Simons VIP, (4) SPARK, (5) SFARI Gene, (6) SFARI channel on BioRxiv, (7) SFARI.org relaunch, (8) SFARI funding, (9) SFARI-funded publications, (10) Simons Foundation Autism Research lecture series.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SFARI 2017 Explorer awardees announced, (2) SFARI 2017 Bridge to Independence Award finalists announced, (3) A Conversation with SFARI investigator David Ginty, (4) SFARI Explorer Awards - Request for Applications, (5) SFARI-Funded publications, (6) Past lecture: Daniel Geschwind, “Autism genetics: Searching for coherence”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SFARI 2017 Pilot and Research awardees announced, (2) SFARI Gene: New data release, (3) Whole-exome sequencing of SPARK: New data release, (4) SFARI Social at Neuroscience 2017, (5) Presentations by SFARI Investigators at Neuroscience 2017, (6) 2018 Pilot and Research Awards -— Request for Applications, (7) Highlights of SFARI-Funded Research, (8) Upcoming lecture: Daniel Geschwind, “Autism genetics: Searching for coherence”, (9) Past lecture: Paola Arlotta, “Understanding autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: From the embryo to brain organoids”, (10) Past lecture: David Ledbetter, “Leveraging long-term health data and exome sequencing for autism-related gene discovery”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) 2018 Pilot and Research Awards - Request for Applications, (2) Whole-genome sequencing of the Simons Simplex Collection: New data release, (3) Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP): New data release, (4) Newly redesigned SFARI website, (5) Newly redesigned SFARI Gene website, (6) SFARI's 2018 funding priorities, (7) 2018 Pilot and Research Award applications: The review process, (8) A Conversation with Sharmila Banerjee-Basu about SFARI Gene, (9) Upcoming lecture: David Ledbetter, “Leveraging long-term health data and exome sequencing for autism-related gene discovery”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) 2017 Bridge to Independence Award request for applications, (2) Application process for recruiting SPARK participants into new research studies is now open, (3) A SFARI channel on bioRxiv, (4) A Conversation with SFARI Bridge to Independence Investigator Sung Han, (5) SFARI-funded publications, (6) Past lecture: Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele, “Potholes and progress on the road to translational treatments in autism spectrum disorder”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SPARK update, (2) Simons Simplex Collection: Updated medical and educational data now available, (3) SFARI Gene: New data available, (4) SFARI at IMFAR 2017, (5) Presentations by SFARI Investigators at IMFAR 2017, (6) Special Interest Group at IMFAR 2017: Promoting partnerships between patient advocacy groups and researchers to improve autism research, (7) A Conversation with SFARI Investigator Liqun Luo, (8) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (9) Past lecture: Stephan Sanders, “What can genetics tell us about autism spectrum disorder?”, (10) Past lecture: Mark Zylka, “Exploiting genetics to identify environmental risks for autism”.