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<p>Sharon Torigoe of Lewis &amp; Clark College was recently recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a <u>three-year Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) grant</u>. The grant is from NSF&rsquo;s Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) program&rsquo;s Genetic Mechanisms Cluster, which funds inventive ideas and research to address fundamental questions about genetics, epigenetics, and gene expression mechanisms. Torigoe is specifically focused on understanding enhancers. Enhancers are genomic sequences that serve as binding sites for proteins that control transcription. These sequences exist some distance away from the part of the genome where transcription takes place. But enhancers are important because they increase the likelihood that transcription of a certain gene will occur.</p>

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