Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Amount

$586,000.00

Award Date

9/17/2009

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 have discovered that the primary causative agent of human dental caries, Streptococcus mutans, undergoes major changes in gene expression and dramatically remodels its surface in response to exposure to oxygen. The goals of this research are to underst