Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2002

这一行动为NSF 2002财年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，以不动杆菌为宿主，从自然环境中检索参与芳香化合物降解的新细菌基因。许多自然产生的芳香族化合物是由微生物通过β-酮基己二酸酯途径分解的。这项研究操纵了一种自然可转化的土壤细菌的遗传系统，并将其用作了解这一生态重要途径在未培养的自然细菌组合中的多功能性和多样性的工具。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2002. 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 "Retrieving novel bacterial genes involved in aromatic compound degradation from natural environments using Acinetobacter as a host." Many naturally-occurring aromatic compounds are broken down by microbes via the beta-ketoadipate pathway. This research manipulates the genetic system of a naturally transformable soil bacterium and uses it as a vehicle for understanding the versatility and diversity of this ecologically important pathway in uncultivated natural bacterial assemblages.