U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Intermediate Filament Function in Teleost Retinal Pigment Epithelium

该奖项支持西南得克萨斯州立大学的达娜·加西亚与德国美因茨大学动物研究所的于尔根·马克尔合作。该项目将重点研究中间丝在硬骨鱼视网膜色素上皮中色素颗粒运动中的作用。这种运动与光线条件的变化有关。美国的专业知识和设施得到了德国实验室的补充，德国实验室在这一研究领域处于领先地位。这家德国集团使用各种技术，包括分子生物学、生物物理和生化技术以及细胞生物学来评估正在研究的细丝的特征，德国实验室提供了德克萨斯州西南部没有的设施。共同努力，美国和德国集团将能够在这一重要领域取得进展，而这是任何一方都不可能单独取得的。

0078261GarciaThis award supports Dana Garcia of Southwest Texas State University in a collaboration with Jurgen Markl of the Institute of Zoology at the University of Mainz, Germany. The project will focus on the role of intermediate filaments in pigment granules movements in retinal pigment epithelium of teleost fishes. Such movements are associated with changes in light conditions. The U.S. expertise and facilities are complemented by those in the German lab, which is a leader in this area of research. The German group uses a variety of techniques, including molecular biological, biophysical, and biochemical ones as well as cell biology to evaluate the characteristics of the filaments under study, and the German laboratory offers facilities not available at Southwest Texas State. Together, the U.S. and German groups will be able to make advances in this important field that would not be possible by either side alone.