Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$101,051.00

Award Date

7/29/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This project will determine how dopamine (DA) modulates motor control in the European medicinal leech and how DA affects the decision whether the animal will crawl or swim. The contribution of the Kristan laboratory will be to identify neurons that produc