Most of what we know about the genetics of aging comes from four organisms well-adapted to life in the lab--yeast, nematodes, fruit flies and mice. These are powerful model systems, but not without problems. Previous studies have shown that organisms maintained in the lab often evolve increased early fecundity and greatly shortened life spans. In...

The accumulation of deleterious mutations that act late in life is thought to play a pivotal role in the process of aging. In the genome, a likely repository for such mutations is the heterochromatin, which contains many repetitive elements but few actual genes. The objective of this project is to characterize the effect of a major...

The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $275,400 for a five-year period to provide funding for the Training Innovations in Parasitological Studies (TIPS) program at the University of Georgia. The multi-department program, developed and run by the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and the center for Undergraduate Research...