SFARI is pleased to support the Summer Undergraduate Research Program in 2022, working with SFARI Investigators and leading U.S. universities to help provide opportunities for undergraduate students to gain research experience in autism science.
The SFARI Gene website has been redesigned. The updated platform features a streamlined user interface and new data visualizations, which were engineered with the aim of making it easier for users to find the latest information about genes implicated in autism susceptibility.
The meeting brought together families with a child carrying deletions or duplications in chromosomal region 16p11.2 and researchers studying 16p11.2.
A number of presentations will be given by SFARI Investigators at the SfN Global Connectome: A Virtual Event (January 11–13).
Updated medical, developmental and educational outcomes information on a subset of families who participated in the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC) — a total of 440 families — is now available to approved researchers via SFARI Base. Researchers may also apply via SFARI Base to re-contact this subset of families for additional research studies.
Simons Foundation and Autism Speaks have entered into an agreement with the National Institutes of Health to align two of the world’s largest repositories of donated postmortem brain tissue for medical research: Autism BrainNet and the NIH NeuroBioBank.
Funds donated by SFARI to Gordon Research Conferences will now be allocated to support attendance of eligible early-career (pre-tenure) women, early-career trainees from historically underrepresented groups and scientists from the following ethnic and racial groups: Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
SFARI’s requests for grant applications (RFAs) underwent a number of changes in 2021. In 2022, we will largely continue on the course set last year. There will be a single call for Pilot Awards and new calls for the Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science and the Genomics of ASD RFAs.
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SPARK update, (2) Autism BrainNet establishes collaboration with the Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank, (3) SFARI Gene: New data release, (4) SFARI Investigators elected to the National Academy of Sciences, (5) SFARI Investigators elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, (6) SFARI fall 2018 science meeting report, (7) A Conversation with SFARI Bridge to Independence Investigator Seth Shipman, (8) 2019 Bridge to Independence Award – Request for applications, (9) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (10) Upcoming webinar: “SFARI Viewer – an online platform to visualize and analyze SFARI genomic data”, (11) Past lecture: David Van Essen, “Mapping human cerebral cortex: Structure, function, connectivity, development and evolution”, (12) Recent media coverage of SFARI.