VIGEN represents an interdisciplinary effort to provide a focus for research and teaching in functional genomics, statistical genetics, bioinformatics, and molecular engineering.

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We have moved!
The VIGEN Laboratory has moved from Engel Hall and the Fralin Biotechnology Center to the newly constructed Life Sciences I. This new facility houses faculty from the Departments of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences, as well as from the College of Veterinary Medicine. We are located in Lab Suite 140. Stop in anytime!

Yvette Edmonds receives a NIH Graduate Fellowship from the National Institute on Aging
Yvette Edmonds was the recent recipient of an R36 NIH Fellowship. Her work in the lab of Richard Helm centers on providing a quantitative analysis of several proteins that have been implicated in the aging process. "Despite the fact that there is significant correlative evidence suggesting a connection between poly(ADP-ribose) and mammalian longevity, no studies have been done to explore a possible role for PARP-1 - the enzyme responsible for synthesis of 90% of cellular poly(ADP-ribose) - in senescence." Her work is funded for two years.

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