Slide title: Research at the Interface of the Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering (BioMaPs)
Slide words: Integrated research that will lead to new theoretical and experimental techniques
FY 2012 request: $76 million
Slide image: Illustration showing how researchers use a hi-res detector to map neural circuits of the retina to understand how individual retinal ganglion cells in the eye work together to send signals that the brain interprets as color vision
Image credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation
Bottom banner images (left to right): Image of an F4 Phantom fighter jet created with a 3D telepresence system; photo of scientists deploying an apparatus for taking sonar measurements from the seafloor; artist's conception showing the newly discovered planet GJ 581g of the Gliese 581 system; artist's conception of a molecular robot; photo of a fifth-grade student; sketch of RNA molecules
Bottom banner images credits (left to right): University of Arizona; Igor Semiletov, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Lynette Cook; Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation; Elsa Head, Tufts University; Dr. Jennifer Henke, Princeton University
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