Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2002

这一行动为NSF 2002财年生物信息学博士后研究奖学金提供了资金。该奖学金支持生物学与信息科学、计算科学、数学科学和统计科学交叉的博士后水平的研究和培训。该研究金的目标是为一名青年科学家提供培训，为从事生物信息学的职业做准备，在生物信息学中将把研究和教育结合起来。在所有职业层面上，对生物信息学的培训的需求越来越大，预计通过这些奖学金培训的研究员将在培训未来的劳动力方面发挥重要作用。该奖学金的研究和培训计划题为“选择的附带效应对遗传变异的自然水平有多大影响？”群体间的遗传变异，FST，正在从特定连锁群的多个定位基因座上进行测量。FST值和遗传图谱距离之间的关系被用来估计选择在整个基因组上的差异效应，阐明了选择对群体遗传结构的总体影响。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY2002. The fellowship supports research and training at the postdoctoral level at the intersection of biology and the informational, computational, mathematical, and statistical sciences. The goal of the fellowship is to provide training to a young scientist in preparation for a career in biological informatics in which research and education will be integrated. There is an increasing need for training in biological informatics at all occupational levels, and it is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training the future workforce.The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "How much influence do the collateral effects of selection have on natural levels of genetic variation?" Genetic variance among populations, FST, is being measured at multiple mapped loci from specific linkage groups in Silene latifolia. The relationship between FST-values and genetic map distance is used to estimate the differential effects of selection across the genome, elucidating the overall effect of selection on population genetic structure.