Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2001

本行动资助2001年度美国国家科学基金会微生物生物学博士后奖学金。该奖学金支持一般不被认为是模式生物的原生动物、微藻、真菌、古细菌、细菌和病毒物种的基本生物学培训和研究。此外，它为最近的博士学位获得者提供了在微生物生物学方面获得额外培训的机会，在知名科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并在本科和研究生培训期间拓宽他/她的科学视野。这些研究金的进一步目的是帮助新科学家指导他们的研究工作跨越传统的学科界线，并利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括国外的地点。这项研究和培训计划的题目是“能量、环境变化和动态约束对实验微生物食物网结构的影响”。一个由细菌、自养藻类、异养原生动物和轮虫组成的实验室微生物系统正在被用来确定环境变异性和能量对食物网新兴结构的影响。实验中对不同复杂性的网络进行扰动，并将网络结构的变化与稳定性措施进行比较，以评估扰动和稳定性-复杂性如何相互作用以产生社区组织。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2001. The fellowship supports training and research on the basic biology of protozoan, microalgal, fungal, archaeal, bacterial and viral species that are not generally considered to be model organisms. Further, it provides opportunities for a recent doctoral recipients to obtain additional training in microbial biology, to gain research experience under the sponsorship of established scientists, and to broaden his/her scientific horizons beyond the research experiences during the undergraduate and graduate training. These fellowships are further designed to assist new scientists to direct their research efforts across traditional disciplinary lines and to avail themselves of unique research resources, sites, and facilities, including foreign locations. The research and training plan is entitled "Effects of energy, environmental variation, and dynamic constraints on the structure of experimental microbial food webs." A lab-based microbial system, comprised of bacteria, autotrophic algae, heterotrophic protozoa, and rotifers, is being used to determine the effects of environmental variability and energy on the emergent structure of food webs. Webs of varying complexity are experimentally perturbed and changes in web structure are compared to stability measures to assess how perturbations and stability-complexity interact to generate community organization.