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“玉米（Zea mays）抗黑穗病和易感黑穗病（Ustilago maydis）的真菌群落”。“选择性育种和改变宿主遗传环境对非目标、潜在有益微生物的影响往往被忽视。 本研究通过研究玉米植株上的真菌微生物群落对玉米主要病原体黑穗病的抗性或敏感性来调查这些影响。 这将对理解宿主植物遗传环境的改变如何影响非靶标微生物的物种多样性和遗传结构具有重要意义。

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 "The fungal community on corn (Zea mays) resistant and susceptible to smut (Ustilago maydis)." The effects of selective breeding and changing host genetic environment on non-target, potentially beneficial microorganisms are often overlooked. This research investigates these effects by studying the fungal microbial community on corn plants resistant or susceptible to one its major pathogens, smut. It will have important implications for understanding how altering the host plant genetic environment can affect species diversity and genetic structure of non-target microorganisms.