Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2002

本行动资助2002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标题是“利用不动杆菌作为宿主，从自然环境中获取参与芳香化合物降解的新型细菌基因”。许多天然存在的芳香族化合物通过β -酮己二酸途径被微生物分解。本研究操纵了一种自然可转化土壤细菌的遗传系统，并将其作为一种载体，以了解这种在未开垦的自然细菌组合中具有重要生态意义的途径的多功能性和多样性。

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.