Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Amount

$309,748.00

Award Date

6/02/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The broad goal of this research is to use engineering approaches to identify fundamental mechanisms and biological design rules that control the assembly and stability of intercellular junctions in tissues. This research focuses on a class of proteins, ca