Western Wildlife Multiomics and Modeling Collaborative (formerlyGenomics Underlying Toxin Tolerance (GUTT)

An interdisciplinary team from Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Alaska investigating the Genomics Underlying Toxin Tolerance (GUTT) in vertebrate herbivores. The GUTT team has expertise in whole-genome sequencing; natural product chemistry and metabolomics; microbial metagenomics; vertebrate transcriptomics; comparative genomics and molecular evolution; in vivo and in vitro microbial and animal physiology; organismal and population ecology; molecular-, organismal- and population-based modeling. The GUTT project expands research, teaching, and leadership capacity at 6 institutions across 3 EPSCoR jurisdictions, including 2 predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs). The GUTT Workforce Development (WFD) plan leverages leaders in innovative research and transferable educational practices to build inclusive research and education capacity early-career faculty.

The collaborative research teams are assembled around individual projects under each Theme where early-career faculty serve as Project Leads with senior mentors involved in each project to facilitate integration across projects, Themes, and jurisdictions. A particular strength of projects is the joining of experts in biomedical or agricultural/model systems with experts in natural/non-model systems.

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