Primary Recipient

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC

Amount

$170,227.00

Award Date

8/03/2009

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

We propose to determine the first genome-wide estimate of mutation rates in cells that undergo meiosis. These studies will address whether cells in meiosis sustain higher rates of mutagenesis relative to mitotic cells and whether homologous recombination