Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2002

这一行动为2002财政年度的NSF生物信息学博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该奖学金支持生物学与信息、计算、数学和统计科学交叉领域的博士后水平的研究和培训。该研究金的目标是向一名青年科学家提供培训，为从事研究和教育相结合的生物信息学职业做准备。目前越来越需要在所有职业级别进行生物信息学方面的培训，预计通过这些研究金获得培训的研究员将在培训未来的劳动力方面发挥重要作用，该研究金的研究和培训计划题为“利用对最近的和化石的赤蛇类的形态地理分析恢复环境变化对脊椎动物群的影响。“形态分析和可靠的统计数据正在被用来确定最近和化石的蛇类动物群对环境变迁的地理反应。这项研究探讨了系统水平，在那里化石可以通过骨骼学的变化，爬行动物如何响应环境的变化，随着时间的推移，以及化石可以预测动物群对人为环境变化的反应。

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 "Recovering the influences of environmental change on vertebrate faunas using a morphological phylogeographic analysis of recent and fossil erycine snakes." Morphometric analysis and robust statistics are being used to determine phylogeographic responses of recent and fossil erycine snake faunas to environmental transitions. This research examines the systematic levels at which fossils can be recognized by osteological variability, how reptiles respond to environmental changes through time, and the extent that fossils can predict faunal responses to anthropogenic environmental modifications.