The Collaborative Research Network is built on team science.
A new Alzforum article highlights how CRN investigators are working across institutions and disciplines to advance #Parkinson’s disease research through shared tools, data, and expertise.
Read more: bit.ly/4dj8ePI
The CRN Cloud is expanding how Parkinson’s researchers access and analyze multi-omics data.
Explore how CRN Cloud now supports interoperability with AMP® PDRD and GP2, plus CURTAIN, an open-source tool for navigating proteomics data 🧪
Read the blog: bit.ly/4fDFF14
🧪 Meet the 2025 MoMa Awardees!
ASAP has selected 9 CRN researchers to lead multi-omics meta-analysis projects using CRN Cloud data, advancing genetic insight, new analytical tools, and therapeutic discovery in #ParkinsonsDisease.
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4u9idMw
Why are some dopamine neurons more vulnerable in #Parkinsons?
Discovery Fellows Sayan Dutta, Janko Kajtez, Christiana Kontaxi, Mukesh Kumar, Matthew McGregor, and Kathryn Todd are studying how circuit function, metabolism, and synaptic signaling drive selective vulnerability ⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/4eW6BbU
How do immune and genetic drivers shape vulnerability in #ParkinsonsDisease? 🧠
Discovery Fellows M. Elizabeth Deerhake, James Evans, Amandine Even, Alexandra Kazanova, and Indrani Poddar are linking inflammation, genomics, and systemic factors to disease progression ⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/3P9uqCM
Open science is part of how research contributions are recognized, shared, and assessed, making research more reproducible, reusable, & actionable.
A new DORA guide for research funders highlights ASAP’s #OpenScience resources & Output Catalog as examples of these principles in use🧪
bit.ly/3RAfEFL
#TeamTuesday 🧬
CRN Team Gijsbers, one of our new Tool Generation teams, is building a viral vector toolbox to enable precise gene knockdown, knockout, and overexpression across models, expanding how researchers study disease mechanisms in #Parkinsons.
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This month’s Discover ASAP features Talitha Forcier of CRN Team Jakobsson.
Talitha uses TEsingle, a machine learning tool that maps transposable element expression at single-cell resolution, to uncover how these genomic elements may contribute to #Parkinsons & neuroinflammation.
📺 : bit.ly/4vCxjeV
👏 Thank you to Andrew Singleton, PhD, for representing GP2 at The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s webinar on what causes #ParkinsonsDisease.
A powerful discussion on genetics, environment, and aging, and how collaboration is driving progress 🧪
🔗 bit.ly/4tSc3kS
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#TeamTuesday 🧠
CRN Team Koob, one of our new Tool Generation teams, is developing full human gene replacement mouse models for #ParkinsonsDisease.
New models designed to better reflect human biology and support translational research.
More spotlights ahead 👇
🔗https://bit.ly/4ug5TuV
