Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Amount

$454,047.19

Award Date

9/30/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The following two aims are designed to supplement our ongoing investigation into the role of tomosyn, which we have shown negatively regulates synaptic transmission at C. elegans synapses. Aim 1) Generate and characterize Drosophila tomosyn mutants. To