Covid19 and the New Lab Normal

Greetings All,

Covid19 PPE

We here at the Graber Lab hope all of you, and yours, are safe and healthy. Even with the challenges presented from carrying on research during the global pandemic and the lock down, our mouse exercise study has been moving along (slowly but surely!). We completed some groups of older mice (22-months-old at start of training) in June during the height of the pandemic lock down, and are now in the midst of exercising groups of adult mice (~6-months-old at start) who are due to complete training in December (Merry Christmas!). Rodent exercise training studies and functional measurements are incredibly labor intensive, but are so worth the effort in the end. We are truly excited to see how exercise changes gene expression differently in adult and older mice–in the context of the genes we recently uncovered as associated with functional decline in aging. We will be presenting a portion of this data at The Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting (virtual this year, because of covid19) in November, and hope to have our first manuscript out from this project in Spring 2021.

Take care, be good to yourself and others, and stay socially distanced!