A landmark paper by Gandal et al. published in Science pinpointing shared and unique transcriptomic features across five psychiatric disorders made national headlines in news outlets such as CNN, The Washington Post, and NPR. The paper was announced by the UCLA Newsroom after its February 8 release. Additional coverage was provided by Science Magazine; Spectrum, which syndicated to Scientific American; HealthDay, which syndicated to U.S. News […]

The UCLA Newsroom announced the release of a Cell paper from de la Torre-Ubieta et al. using ATAC-seq to generate a map of gene regulation during human neurogenesis. Coverage included January 11 in ScienceDaily and Medical Xpress; and January 12 in Neuroscience News, Technology Networks, and Science Newsline.

The UCLA Newsroom announced the released of a December 2017 eLife paper from Chandran et al. using ATAC-seq to generate a map of gene regulation during human neurogenesis. Coverage included December 20 in MedicalXpress and News Medical, January 2 in myScience, and January 3 in Technology Networks.

The UCLA Newsroom reported that the labs of Dr. Geschwind and Dr. Sergiu Pasca at Stanford received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to pursue “convergent neuroscience” efforts establishing links between results from stem cell, cell culture, physiology, genomics, physics, and behavioral research.

Dr. Geschwind was among 30 UCLA faculty members named among Clarivate Analytics’ “2017 Highly Cited Researchers,” as reported by the UCLA Newsroom. The list compiled more than 3,000 researchers whose studies were among the top 1% most referenced studies in their field.

The NIH awarded the UCLA Center for Autism Treatment and Research (CART) the Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) award, a five-year, $9.7 million grant that will allow CART to continue research on heterogeneity in phenotypes, genetic variation, and treatment response in autism. Dr. Geschwind is the director of the Center for Autism Treatment and Research, […]

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Read the Spectrum News interview here.

The UCLA Newsroom made a press release for a Nature paper by Parikshak et al. using gene expression data from RNA-seq in postmortem human brain to show changes in cortical patterning, gene regulation, and alternative splicing in ASD. The story was covered by Medical Xpress on December 5 and Technology.org on December 6. A diagram from Parikshak et al.’s paper is shown below depicting standard […]