Primary Recipient

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$460,000.00

Award Date

6/13/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The main objective of this project is to investigate the developmental role of a newly discovered class of membranous protrusions interconnecting blastomeres of early, cleavage-stage Xenopus laevis embryos. Time lapse confocal microscopy of live, surgical