Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS

Amount

$109,080.00

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 molecular mechanisms of gamete fusion remain poorly understood in most organisms. Currently, Chlamydomonas is the only organism in which two proteins have been shown by gene disruption to be essential for the membrane fusion reaction. Our ability to