To accomplish all of this, under the co-direction of Dr. Judith Van Houten and Dr. Christopher Allen, the VGN has developed a plan for supporting recruitment of faculty into UVM, and we have created a Bioinformatics Core (Dr. Jeffrey Bond, Director), a Mentoring Core (Dr. Judith Van Houten, Director), and a Microarray Facility (Dr. Ahmad Chaudhry, Director). Teri Hart is the VGN Project Coordinator and can be reached at (802) 656-4087 or Vermont.GeneticsNetwork@uvm.edu

           The baccalaureate colleges participating in VGN are Castleton College, Johnson State College, Middlebury College, Norwich University, and St. Michael's College . Their undergraduates have the opportunity to respond to annual calls for applications for summer internships to work at their home college or UVM. In addition, the faculties of these institutions have the opportunity to respond to an annual call for applications for summer and sabbatical support. Other means of support include Mini-grants for use of UVM facilities, Small Equipment and Travel awards.

           Our over-arching goals are to continue be a resource to genetics researchers and clinicians throughout Vermont and to be as inclusive as possible.