Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Amount

$486,418.00

Award Date

7/28/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Intellectual merit. One of the many inhabitants in the leafy debris of the forest floors is social amoeba. These are ancient organisms that diverged and evolved independently from mammals quite early in evolution. Social amoeba are quite remarkable--they