International Research Fellowship Program: Phylogenetic Analysis of the Phaeophyceae (Brown Algae) Based on rbcL and LSU Sequences

0107297 Phillips国际研究员奖励计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。 该计划的奖项为联合研究以及使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件提供了机会。该奖项将为Naomi E博士提供24个月的支持。菲利普斯与加里W.该项目将利用rbcL和LSU序列信息来阐明褐藻族（褐藻）之间的顺序和一些家族关系。 褐藻是沿海海洋环境中最具优势和生物多样性的初级生产者群体之一。 它们表现出广泛的形态学形式，从简单的微观和宏观的细丝到大型和复杂的薄壁组织叶状体。 从经济上讲，褐藻是天然产品和生物医学用品的主要来源。 尽管它们的重要性，研究才刚刚开始客观地检查进化关系和一个自然的分类系统，反映系统发育关系的共识是失踪。 我们开展全面研究以了解这些资源，对我们保护这些资源至关重要。 这项研究的结果不仅有助于我们对这组生物的了解，而且将促进其他领域的未来研究，如生态学。加里桑德斯博士是一位在传统和分子技术方面都有专长的褐藻系统学研究人员。

0107297PhillipsThe International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will provide twenty-four months of support to Dr. Naomi E. Phillips to work with Dr. Gary W. Saunders at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada.This project will use the rbcL and LSU sequence information to elucidate the ordinal and some familial relationships among the Phaeophyceae (brown algae). Brown algae are one of the most dominant and biologically diverse groups of primary producers in coastal marine environments. They exhibit a wide range of morphological forms, from simple microscopic and macroscopic filaments to large and complex parenchymatous thalli. Economically, brown algae are major sources of natural products and biomedical supplies. Despite their importance, research is just beginning to examine objectively evolutionary relationships and a consensus in terms of a natural classification system that reflects phylogenetic relationships is missing. It is critical to our conservation of these resources that we initiate comprehensive studies to understand them. The results of this research will contribute no only to our understanding of this group of organisms, but will facilitate future research in other areas, such as ecology.Dr. Gary Saunders is an established researcher in brown algal systematics with expertise in both traditional and molecular techniques.