The Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium (TMGC) – An interactive and collaborative research consortium.

A brief history and progress report on this group dedicated to the use of mice in biomedical research will be provided. The opportunities that exist to work within this group to develop research programs are extensive. Currently NIH-funded projects that have emanated from the TMGC are a mutagenesis program to ENU-mutagenize mice and look for neurological phenotypes, a BISTI application which is a planning grant to develop an NIH Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, and an Integrative Neurobiology Initiative to study Alcohol with a focus on stress and alcohol consumption. Grants that are waiting in the wings are one to distribute mouse mutants to the research community, one to identify ENU-induced mutations that result in developmental defects, and a grant to offer training in neurogenetics and the use of ENU-mouse models. In the future grants include one to molecularly phenotype ENU-induced mouse mutants and a Center of Excellence in Genomics and Neuroscience.  We invite investigators of all disciplines to explore intersections between their areas of expertise and bioinformatics and mouse functional genomics.

Dan Goldowitz, Ph.D.
Professor Anatomy & Neurobiology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
855 Monroe Ave.
Memphis, TN  38163
tel. 901-448-7019
fax  901-448-3035
http://cgb.utmem.edu
http://tnmouse.org/neuromutagenesis/index.html