Techniques including molecular display, cell lineage tracing, and use of Xenopus embryos as a functional assay system will be employed to characterize maternally-inherited factors that determine fates of cells that contribute to the developing central nervous system and other dorsal axial structures in these embryo. The crucial roles such factors are likely to play in neural development suggest that they will be conserved in other vertebrates, and thus hold out a good chance of helping us understand and prevent defects in neural development in humans.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32)
Project #
1F32HD008055-01
Application #
2196486
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-NEUB-2 (01))
Project Start
1996-01-12
Project End
Budget Start
1995-08-01
Budget End
1996-07-31
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
1995
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
George Washington University
Department
Anatomy/Cell Biology
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
City
Washington
State
DC
Country
United States
Zip Code
20052