Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2001

DBI 0102111约翰·R·斯皮尔摘要这一行动为2001财年NSF微生物生物学博士后奖学金提供了资金。该奖学金支持关于原生动物、微藻、真菌、古生物、细菌和病毒物种的基本生物学的培训和研究，这些物种通常不被认为是模式生物。此外，它还为最近的博士获得者提供了获得微生物生物学方面的额外培训的机会，在知名科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并在本科生和研究生培训期间拓宽其科学视野，超越研究经验。这些奖学金还旨在帮助新科学家引导他们的研究工作跨越传统的学科界限，并利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括外国地点。这项研究和培训计划的标题是《黄石生态系统中的微生物多样性和氢气》。这项工作的目标是描述黄石地热生态系统的微生物组成和代谢基础，假设氢是主要的生物能源。首先，正在测量水中的氢浓度。然后，相关的生物量，由氢代谢微生物组成，正在使用分子系统发育方法进行表征。

DBI 0102111John R. SpearAbstractThis 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 "Microbial Diversity and Hydrogen in the Yellowstone Ecosystem." The goal of this work is to describe the microbial composition and metabolic underpinnings of the Yellowstone geothermal ecosystem, with the hypothesis that hydrogen is the primary biological energy source. First, hydrogen concentration in waters are being measured. Then, the associated biomass, consisting of hydrogen-metabolizing microorganisms, is being characterized using a molecular phylogenetic approach.