It's only skin deep!

"It's only skin deep!" is a working group branching from the 2016 National Academies Special Topics Summer Institute on Quantitative Biology. This group is working specifically on the following levels of problem solving: a) Correlation of skin pigmentation with latitude and Vitamin D deficiencies. b) Physiology and biochemistry of melanin synthesis and trafficking c) Regulatory genes involved in process of melanin expression d) Vitamin D deficiency, skin pigmentation related to genotypes.

If you would like to know more about this group, please request membership. 

The It's only skin deep! Group Facilitators are Sheela Vemu, Pete White, and Alice Tarun. 

The It's only skin deep! Group QUBES Liaison is Sam Donovan. 

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Members of this group are listed below: 

Hayley OrndorfAlice Tarun