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NIDCR-funded repository and resource empowering dental, oral & craniofacial research (including related biological and anatomical health/disease domains) with open science and FAIR practices. Reach out at help@facebase.org. www.facebase.org

Save the Date Flyer with navy and gold highlights displaying initial details for the 2027 FaceBase Community Forum: April 27 & 28, 2027 at USC Information Sciences Institute, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA. Inviting: researchers, clinicians, data scientists trainees. Focused on: dental, oral, craniofacial, inner ear and related health domains. More details coming soon. Check for updates at: https://bit.ly/FBForum2027
An example one of the PLX5622 treated P1 skulls. Image by Felix Ma and Jessica M. Rosin.
A view of the San Diego Convention Center, where the AADOCR/IADR will be held next week. See FaceBase in Booth 402!
Spatial transcriptomics of the mouse temporomandibular joint (TMJ) using seqFISH, from the dataset "Spatial Transcriptomics of Mouse CFA-induced TMJ arthritis" https://doi.org/10.25550/8Q-3KAR
Mutant sample from the dataset MicroCT analysis of ameloblast specific Smad4 conditional knockout mice
Flyer for the FaceBase 2026 Community Forum Arlington, VA on May 4 & 5, 2026 Advances in data reuse, integration, and AI-ready biomedical research in dental, oral, craniofacial, inner ear and related research.
Figure from Manchel et al 2026
Save the Dates for the 2026 FaceBase Community Forum in Arlington, VA on: May 4 & 5 2026! For updates, go to:https://bit.ly/FBForum2026
Screenshot of the FaceBase Virtual Bootcamp - Fall 2025: Rob Schuler is presenting a slide about how FaceBase data is ready for Reuse, Reproducibility and (Re)analysis.
FOR DENTAL, ORAL, AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCHERS, CLINICIANS AND STUDENTS FACEBASE BOOTCAMP (FOR USERS AND CONTRIBUTORS) LEARN HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE FACEBASE RESOURCE AND BEST PRACTICES FOR MANAGING AND SHARING DATA Wed, November 5 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern/ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Online Event Learn more and register at: https://www.facebase.org/community/training/2025-11-05/
FaceBase Office Hours Last Wednesday of the month 10 am PT / 1 pm ET If you have questions about submitting your data, requesting controlled-access human data, how to best find certain data, or any other aspect of interacting with FaceBase, please join us!
OR DENTAL, ORAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCHERS, CLINICIANS AND STUDENTS FACEBASE BOOTCAMP (FOR USERS AND CONTRIBUTORS) LEARN HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE FACEBASE RESOURCE AND BEST PRACTICES FOR MANAGING AND SHARING DATA Wed, November 5 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern/ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Online Event Learn more and register at: facebase.org/community/training/
Shroom3 morphometrics image from Zhu et al 2025
Images from the Pittsburgh Orofacial Cleft (OFC) Birth Defects Study
Photo of Yang Chai, the next dean of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, who is the co-PI of FaceBase.
Figure 1 from publication depicting scRNA-Seq data on embryonic mouse palate from stages E12.5 through E18.5 and Spatial Genomics data on embryonic mouse head from histological sections from stages E12.5 through E15.5
Flyer for the FaceBase 2025 Community Forum on June 3 & 4
The FaceBase team at our booth in the AADOCR Exhibit Hall (from left to right: Aref Shafaeibejestan, Alejandro Bugacov, VyVy Nguyen, Cris Williams, Yang Chai, Carl Kesselman, Rob Schuler)