Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2002

2002财年微生物学博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0200307
• 负责人: Paul Straight
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Straight Paul D
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-01-01 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0200307&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowship; Microbial; Biology

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.

这项行动资助了 2002 财年 NSF 微生物学博士后奖学金。 该奖学金支持对原生动物、微藻、真菌、古菌、细菌和病毒物种的基础生物学进行培训和研究，这些物种通常不被认为是模式生物。此外，它还为应届博士生提供了获得微生物生物学方面额外培训的机会，在知名科学家的资助下获得研究经验，并在本科生和研究生培训期间拓宽他/她的科学视野。这些奖学金进一步旨在帮助新科学家跨越传统学科领域开展研究工作，并利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括国外地点。该研究和培训计划的标题是“细菌-真菌相互作用：在真菌存在下影响细菌群落发展的新信号和响应机制”。 在自然环境中，许多微生物构建了称为生物膜的复杂群落。 这项研究的重点是通过对多个细菌-真菌对的表征，研究生物膜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识别参与双物种相互作用的基因，以便定义对细菌-真菌群落重要的信号机制。