Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Amount

$144,397.00

Award Date

9/16/2010

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 long-range goal of this project is to determine the mechanism used by bacteria to select the proper cell division site at midcell. The three Min proteins, MinC, MinD and MinE, are required for proper site selection. The proteins have a unique cellular