This news item is about: Fifteen faculty from disciplines across the university will combine their experience as research educators, thanks to a $659,529 training grant from the National Institutes of Health encouraging the exploration of vertebrate developmental genomics. Awarded to Dr. John Schimenti, the grant will support three graduate students who have demonstrated an interest in both the subject and the collaborative research approach, engaging a new generation of scientists in multidisciplinary research with the potential to improve our understanding of how genes guide development. Spanning the lifetime of an organism, development encompasses processes from inception and growth to aging and death. Developmental genomics looks at development through a genetic lens, and can help unlock the molecular mysteries of how cancer grows and spreads.