Collaborations

The thriving scientific atmosphere for biological research at Utah arises from an enthusiastic sense of community and dedication. There are no departmental barriers to cooperation among the faculty and students. This has spawned many different types of productive interactions between faculty members. These include combined interdepartmental graduate recruitment and admissions, teaching of interdepartmental courses, cooperation in teaching assistant assignments, collaborative research, joint seminar programs and joint research-in-progress meetings. A selection of our faculty's collaborations with faculty from other departments is presented below.

• Forming and Patterning the Vertebrate Inner Ear with department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
• Circadian Rhythm Genetics and Biology with departments of Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Neurobiology and Anatomy
• Ion Channel Physiology with department of Internal Medicine
• Genetic Epidemiology of Aging in Utah Pedigress with departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry
• Identification of Genes Contributing to Longevity with departments of Family and Consumer Studies and Oncological Sciences
• Zebrafish Reverse Genetics Facility Research Instrumentation Grant with departments of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Oncological Sciences
• Developmental Biology Training Program grant with numerous departments, including Pathology, Oncological Sciences, Biology and Neurobiology and Anatomy
• Family Blood Pressure Program, a large multi-center genetics study of high blood pressure and related conditions in multiple racial groups. Faculty from Human Genetics and Cardiovascular Genetics Research participate in this project.

Joint Publications
As a result of these research and grant collaborations, our faculty have joint publications in numerous journals, including the American Journal of Human Genetics, Nature Medicine, Human Molecular Genetics, Genomics, Neurology, The Gerontologist, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and others.