This Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program will investigate how tactile sensory information is represented and processed in the neural circuits of the fruit fly Drosophila. The $243,590 award to the University of Washington will map the morphology and connectivity of tactile mechanosensory neurons and interneurons in the fly's ventral...
This federal Project Grant award of $458,806 was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The grant will support research at the University of Chicago to characterize the fundamental differences between projection and local pathways of proprioceptive signaling in Drosophila larvae. The research aims to provide a comprehensive anatomical...
The University of Washington will receive $1,876,269 under a three-year Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant will support research using Drosophila melanogaster to investigate motor control and premotor neural circuits in the spinal cord. Researchers will develop a behavioral task for flies to generate specific amounts of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $345,702 to Vanderbilt University to study the cellular and circuit bases of motor control for active sensation. The goal is to reveal mechanisms of motor control for sensation at the cellular and circuit levels, using fruit flies as a model system. Key objectives include...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $404,340 Project Grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The project aims to develop a novel method using split fluorescent protein tags to map the localization of neurotransmitter receptors within neural circuits in the Drosophila model organism. This work will provide crucial new insights into the...
This federal Project Grant award, ID R35NS137247, was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The award totaling $1,174,913.00 supports research to understand the fundamental mechanisms of homeostatic plasticity, a compensatory process that stabilizes neural function, and its potential links to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and...
This $563,343 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under CFDA 93.853 Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders, supports research conducted by New York University (NYU) to investigate the physical, molecular, and cellular mechanisms underlying tissue guidance and tissue splitting during nervous system development. The research uses the posterior lateral line primordium migration in zebrafish as...
This federal Project Grant award of $211,875.00, provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, supports research to characterize the development and function of medulla visual projection (MEVP) neurons in the Drosophila visual system. The research aims to determine which neuroblasts give rise to MEVP neurons, analyze their gene expression profiles, and...
This $536,617 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) supports research to understand the mechanisms of neural regeneration in model organisms. The primary awardee, Oregon Health & Science University, will conduct experiments using planarians and zebrafish to investigate how adult neural stem cells can regenerate neural tissue and restore...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $147,507 project grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) to the University of California, Davis. The project, titled "The Encoding of Proprioceptive Signaling by NAV1.6", aims to uncover the mechanistic role of the sodium channel NAV1.6 in proprioceptive signaling, which is critical for sensory-driven motor behaviors. The research will...