Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2002

这一行动为2002财政年度NSF微生物生物学博士后奖学金提供资金。 该研究金支持关于原生动物、微藻、真菌、古菌、细菌和病毒物种的基础生物学的培训和研究，这些物种通常不被视为模式生物。此外，它为最近的博士生提供了机会，以获得微生物生物学方面的额外培训，在既定科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并拓宽他/她的科学视野，超越本科和研究生培训期间的研究经验。这些奖学金还旨在帮助新科学家指导他们的研究工作，跨越传统学科，并利用独特的研究资源，地点和设施，包括外国地点。研究和培训计划的标题是“细菌-真菌相互作用：在真菌存在的情况下影响细菌群落发展的新信号和反应机制”。“在自然环境中，许多微生物构建复杂的群落，称为生物膜。 本研究的重点是通过表征多个细菌-真菌对，在生物膜的背景下细菌和真菌之间的信号相互作用。 遗传技术和微阵列分析被用来确定参与双物种相互作用的基因，以确定重要的细菌-真菌群落的信号机制。

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 "Bacterial-fungal interactions: novel signals and response mechanisms that influence development of bacterial communities in the presence of fungi." In the natural environment, many microorganisms construct complex communities known as biofilms. This research focuses on signaling interactions between bacteria and fungi in the context of biofilms through characterization of multiple bacterial-fungal pairs. Genetic techniques and microarray analyses are being used to identify genes involved in dual-species interactions, in order to define signaling mechanisms important to bacterial-fungal communities.