This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SFARI Winter 2020 Pilot awardees, (2) Note to SFARI Investigators regarding COVID-19 epidemic, (3) SFARI 2019 Director awards, (4) Reminder: Limitations on using SFARI Simons Collection data sets and/or biospecimens, (5) SFARI meeting report: DYRK1A family meeting supports parents and scientists alike, (6) Conversation with SFARI Investigator Karen Parker, (7) 2020 SFARI Collaboration on Sex Differences in Autism — Request for applications, (8) Summer 2020 Pilot Award – Request for applications, (9) Highlights of SFARI-funded research.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) 2020 SFARI Collaboration on Sex Differences in Autism — Request for applications, (2) New changes implemented to SFARI Gene, (3) 2019 Bridge to Independence Award fellow, (4) SFARI funds to support diversity at Gordon Research Conferences, (5) SFARI meeting report: Seeing through a forest of SCN2A gene variation, (6) SFARI meeting report: Bridge to Independence fellows meeting highlights research findings and plans of the next generation of SFARI autism scientists, (7) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (8) 2020 Bridge to Independence Award — Request for Applications, (9) Summer 2020 Pilot Award – Request for Applications, (10) Past lecture: Jason Lerch, “Autism, Autisms or Neurodevelopmental Disorders?”

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Zebrafish lines added to SFARI resources, (2) 2019 Novel Outcome Measures in Autism Spectrum Disorder awardees, (3) Transition in SFARI directorship, (4) A joint variant call-set for all Simons Simplex Collection whole-genome sequences, (5) SFARI Investigators elected to the National Academy of Medicine, (6) SFARI blog: Paul Wang, “The need for objective outcome measures to advance intervention research in autism”, (7) SFARI blog: Wendy Chung and John Spiro, “Simons Searchlight: Rebranding and expanding the program”, (8) SFARI spring 2019 science meeting report, (9) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (10) 2020 Bridge to Independence Award – Request for applications, (11) Upcoming lecture: Jason Lerch, “Autism, autisms or neurodevelopmental disorders?”

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Summer 2019 Pilot awardees, (2) SPARK pilot study identifies novel candidate autism risk genes, (3) Simons VIP rebranded as Simons Searchlight, (4) Simons Searchlight: New data release, (5) Presentations by SFARI Investigators at ASHG 2019, (6) Presentations by SFARI Investigators at Neuroscience 2019, (7) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (8) SFARI Social at Neuroscience 2019, (9) Simons Foundation Tech Open House, (10) Upcoming lecture: Gloria Choi, “Neuroimmune interactions shaping social behavior in mouse models for neurodevelopmental disorders”.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) 2019 Research awardees, (2) SFARI Gene: New data release, (3) Workshop plumbs infancy for autism insights, (4) A Conversation with SFARI Investigator Dan Feldman, (5) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (6) 2019 Bridge to Independence Award – Request for applications, (7) Winter 2020 Pilot Award – Request for applications, (8) Past webinar: “SFARI Viewer – an online platform to visualize and analyze SFARI genomic data”.

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.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) New SPARK clinical sites announced, (2) Genomic Analysis for Autism Risk Variants in SPARK awardees announced, (3) Additional family meetings of rare genetic developmental disorders planned for summer 2019, (4) Creation of induced pluripotent stem cells from SFARI biospecimen samples – Request for information, (5) SFARI workshop: Coordinating animal- and human-based research on sensory alterations in autism spectrum disorders, (6) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (7) Summer 2019 Pilot Award – Request for applications, (8) Upcoming lecture: David Van Essen, “Mapping human cerebral cortex: Structure, function, connectivity, development and evolution”, (9) Upcoming lecture: David Ginty, “Altered somatosensory processing in autism spectrum disorders: Mechanisms and emerging therapeutic opportunities”, (10) Recent media coverage of SFARI.

This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Winter 2019 Pilot awardees announced, (2) Autism BrainNet begins distribution of new postmortem brain tissue, (3) SFARI Viewer has launched, (4) SFARI Gene: New data release, (5) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (6) 2019 Novel Outcome Measures in ASD – Request for applications, (7) Summer 2019 Pilot Award – Request for applications.

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”.