Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON

Amount

$900,354.00

Award Date

9/24/2009

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

Very recently channelrhodopsins, light-gated ion channels we found in 2002 to be phototaxis receptors that mediate light-induced membrane depolarization in Chlamydomonas algae, have been intensively used for non-invasive, highly temporally and spatially r