Primary Recipient

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Amount

$215,522.00

Award Date

8/14/2009

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 primary purpose of this supplemental award is to allow us to purchase a fluorescence microscope. We plan to use the microscope to visualize gene transfer between individual bacterial cells. It will also support a postdoctoral researcher (for 1.5 yea