SFARI Lunch Meeting at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)

The Simons Foundation welcomes all ASHG 2023 attendees to join us for a lunch meeting. SFARI staff will give a short presentation and then be available to answer questions about the research they support and opportunities for funding. They will also highlight the human cohorts — SPARK and Simons Searchlight — as well as associated resources they have created for the scientific community.

SFARI 2023 Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science RFA: Informational session

On March 7, 2023, SFARI held an informational session about the 2022 Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science request for applications (RFA)

2023 Cross-Species Studies of ASD RFA — Informational session

On January 23, 2023, SFARI hosted an informational session on the 2023 Cross-Species Studies of ASD request for applications (RFA).

Simons Foundation Autism and Neuroscience Social 2022

Join the SFARI science team and leaders in the autism research community for an informal evening of food, drink, conversation and mingling on October 21, 2019, in Chicago.

In search of causality: From neuropsychiatric genetics to pathophysiology

On September 23, 2022, SFARI will co-host a virtual workshop about the causal mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric conditions, from genes to cells to circuits to behavior. The event is organized in conjunction with the New York Genome Center, Columbia University, the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Oxford, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the University of California, Los Angeles.

How emotions shape our memories

Have you ever contemplated the difference between a feeling, a thought and a memory? And how do all these things fit together in making us who we are?

Leonard Mlodinow is a theoretical physicist and best-selling author. In his latest book, “Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking,” he unpacks the role emotions play in our thinking and mental well-being.

Kelsey Martin, director of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) and the foundation’s neuroscience collaborations, has spent much of her career as a neuroscientist seeking to understand better how experiences change brain connectivity to store long-term memories.