Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$79,132.00

Award Date

1/04/2010

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

This project is to determine how the intracellular metabolite cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) stimulates bacterial biofilm formation. Our focus is on the opportunistic pathogen and model biofilm bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Biofilms, defined as surfac