Vermont Genetics Network @ The University of Vermont

VGN congratulates Peter Bruns, the recipient of the 2011 Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education. His project, CourseSource, centers around changes that influence teaching: Knowledge, Internet, Science of learning and teaching, Student-centered learning, and Educational Synergies (KISSES). Peter Bruns is the Vice President for Grants and Special Programs at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and part of the External Advisory Committee for the Vermont Genetics Network.

University Communications:
'Blood Mystery Solved'
2-22-2012 | By Joshua E. Brown

You probably know your blood type: A, B, AB or O. You may even know if you’re Rhesus positive or negative. But how about the Langereis blood type? Or the Junior blood type? Positive or negative? Most people have never even heard of these.

Yet this knowledge could be “a matter of life and death,” says University of Vermont biologist Bryan Ballif.

While blood transfusion problems due to Langereis and Junior blood types are rare worldwide, several ethnic populations are at risk, Ballif notes. “More than 50,000 Japanese are thought to be Junior negative and may encounter blood transfusion problems or mother-fetus incompatibility,” he writes.

But the molecular basis of these two blood types has remained a mystery — until now.

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The Vermont Genetics Network(VGN) is the Vermont IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), located at the University of Vermont (UVM), the lead institution for the state. We build biomedical research capacity throughout the state by promoting faculty and student research at our Baccalaureate Partner Institutions (BPIs). Our BPI Institutions include: Castleton State College, Green Mountain College, Johnson State College, Lyndon State College, Middlebury College, Norwich University and Saint Michael's College. We achieve our goals with research awards and renovations; reaching out to BPIs and other colleges with delivery of curriculum modules for students to have hands-on opportunities to carry out realistic research protocols and use VGN’s facilities; developing Microarray and Proteomics facilities that serve the entire network; providing Bioinformatics services; supporting new faculty and graduate students at the University of Vermont (UVM).The support for the BPI faculty, college and high school students and also science education Outreach efforts help build student interest in biomedical careers and supports the biomedical workforce.

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