Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM

Amount

$326,267.00

Award Date

7/20/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Animal cells divide themselves by assembling a contractile ring of actin myosin around the cell equator which constricts the cell surface between duplicated chromosome sets at the end of mitosis. Classical experiments suggest that cells 'know' where to bu