Tag: zebrafish

SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded 32 grants (19 Pilot Awards and 13 Research Awards) in response to the 2017 Pilot and Research Awards request for applications (RFA).

In this blog post, the SFARI science team provides insight into SFARI’s scientific priorities. A number of experimental design issues to consider when preparing a grant application in response to the 2018 Pilot and Research Awards RFA are also discussed.

Giraldez and Krishnaswamy will combine novel genetic and computational methods to study how mutations in ASD-risk genes affect healthy brain cell development.

SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded 27 grants (21 Pilot Awards and 6 Research Awards) in response to the 2016 Pilot and Research Awards request for applications. 

In this blog post, the SFARI science team provides insight into SFARI’s scientific priorities. A number of experimental design issues to consider when preparing a grant application in response to the 2017 Pilot and Research Awards RFA are also discussed.

Research into the developmental underpinnings of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is hampered by a lack of techniques for describing neural development at the cellular and circuit levels. Ethan Scott and his colleagues plan to use zebrafish as a platform for anatomical and functional analyses of ASD etiology at the level of individual neurons and the circuits that they form. Zebrafish larvae are transparent, allowing neural development in the intact animal to be examined with a range of microscopic and optogenetic techniques.