Molecular Approaches to Microbial Biodiversity (MBL Summer Courses 2000 - 2003)

微生物生物多样性的分子方法（MBL 夏季课程 2000 - 2003）

• 批准号: 0074786
• 负责人: Caroline Harwood
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Marine Biological Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-15 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0074786&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Molecular; Approaches; Microbial; Biodiversity; MBL

DEB-0074786Caroline S. HarwoodDr. Caroline Harwood has been awarded a grant for an intensive six-and-a-half week summer course in Microbial Diversity to be given at The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in the years 2000 though 2003. There is general agreement in the scientific community that the continued expansion of biotechnology into the environmental, pharmaceutical and medical arenas depends on our ability to recognize and exploit the vast biodiversity of microbes that exist on earth. The aim of the course is to train students to recognize and effectively study diverse kinds of new microorganisms. The course will be attended by graduate and postdoctoral students, as well as established investigators, who want to become competent in microbiological techniques for working with a broad range of microbes and in approaches for recognizing and understanding evolutionary relationships between microbes. The course is primarily a laboratory course that will emphasize nature as the source of microorganisms for research; thus the beginner and the advanced student have equal chances to make discoveries. Students will isolate various metabolic types of microbes and they will use molecular techniques, computer analysis and approaches of comparative genomics to mine the riches of diverse microbes. The laboratory component of the course will be complemented by lectures that provide theoretical background in metabolism, evolution and genomics. A series of mini-symposia on current topics of interest in the areas of genomics and microbial evolution will also be given.

DEB-0074786卡罗琳S.哈伍德博士卡罗琳·哈伍德获得了一笔赠款，用于2000年至2003年在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室举办为期六周半的微生物多样性暑期强化课程。科学界普遍认为，生物技术能否继续扩展到环境、制药和医疗领域，取决于我们是否有能力认识和利用地球上存在的微生物的巨大生物多样性。 本课程的目的是培养学生认识和有效地研究各种新的微生物。该课程将由研究生和博士后学生以及既定的研究人员参加，他们希望能够胜任微生物学技术，用于广泛的微生物以及识别和理解微生物之间进化关系的方法。 该课程主要是一个实验室课程，将强调自然作为研究微生物的来源;因此初学者和高级学生有平等的机会做出发现。 学生将分离各种代谢类型的微生物，他们将使用分子技术，计算机分析和比较基因组学的方法来挖掘不同微生物的财富。本课程的实验室部分将通过提供代谢，进化和基因组学理论背景的讲座来补充。 还将举办一系列关于基因组学和微生物进化领域当前感兴趣的主题的小型研讨会。