Braingeneers

We are members of the Braingeneers group, a research consortium that brings together neuroscientists, geneticists and engineers to study the unique specializations of the human brain. Other members of the group include laboratories at UC Santa Cruz (Haussler, Teodorescu, Salama, Sharf), UC San Francisco (Pollen, Nowakowski), UC Santa Barbara (Kosik) and Washington University in St. Louis (Hengen)

SSPsyGene

We are co-leading the Data Resource and Coordination Center (DRACC) for the SSPsyGene Consortium. This consortium is an NIMH initiative to systematically characterize the most important 250 genes in neuropsychiatric disorders. Other members of the DRACC are labs in UC Santa Cruz (Haussler, Haeussler, Paten) and UC San Francisco (Nowakowski). Other members of the consortium are labs at UC Los Angeles (Geschwind, Novitch, Aharoni, Bhaduri, Damoiseaux, Golshani, Kim, Luo, Wells), the Broad Institute (Nehme, Farhi, Levin), MIT ( Fraenkel), NorthShore (Duan, Zhang, Sanders), Rutgers (Pang, Mulle, Hart, Li, Pato, Kreimer), Baylor (Tolias), University of Chicago (He), Yale (Hoffman, Fan, Brennand, Huckins, Wang), the Scripps Institute (Jin), Penn State (Kim, Paul), the Jackson Laboratories (Kumar), WashU (Dougherty, Gabel, Kravitz, Mitra, Maloney).

CIRM ReMIND

We are part of two multi-institutional teams in the CIRM ReMIND program. The first team led by Alex Pollen (UCSF) in the project “Deep phenotyping of human brain organoid models of autism spectrum disorder to unravel disease heterogeneity and develop biomarkers and treatments” includes labs at UCSF (Sherr, Kampmann, Sato), UCSC (Salama, Teodorescu) and UC Berkeley (Shaffer, Bateup). The second team led by Aparna Bhaduri (UCLA) in the project “Defining Neurovascular Metabolism in Neurodevelopmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders” includes labs at UCLA (Christofk, Kornblum, Zeiger) and UCSF (Crouch).