Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY2001

本行动资助2001年度美国国家科学基金会生物信息学博士后研究奖学金。该奖学金支持生物学与信息、计算、数学和统计科学交叉领域的博士后研究和培训。该研究金的目标是向青年科学家提供培训，为从事生物信息学方面的研究和教育相结合的职业做准备。所有职业级别都日益需要生物信息学方面的培训，预期通过这些研究金培训的研究员将在培训未来工作人员方面发挥重要作用。该研究金的研究和培训计划题为“模拟性隔离进化的新方法”。这个项目探讨了蝾螈和果蝇的性隔离的进化动态。理论模型被用来模拟给定系统发育的性隔离的进化。模拟数据矩阵将与经验数据进行比较，为遗传、漂变、选择和强化在跨进化种的性隔离进化中的作用提供第一次测试。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY2001. The fellowship supports research and training at the postdoctoral level at the intersection of biology and the informational, computational, mathematical, and statistical sciences. The goal of the fellowship is to provide training to a young scientist in preparation for a career in biological informatics in which research and education will be integrated. There is an increasing need for training in biological informatics at all occupational levels, and it is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "A new approach to modeling the evolution of sexual isolation." This project explores the evolutionary dynamics of sexual isolation in salamanders and Drosophila. Theoretical models are being used to simulate evolution of sexual isolation given a phylogeny. Simulated data matrices will be compared to empirical data, providing the first tests of the roles of inheritance, drift, selection, and reinforcement in the evolution of sexual isolation across clades.