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。 该奖学金支持在生物学和信息，计算，数学和统计科学的交叉点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。在所有职业级别上对生物信息学培训的需求日益增加，预计通过这些研究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，该研究金的研究和培训计划题为“模拟鱼类机械感受的动力学。“即使在游泳过程中水流过身体，鱼也能感知到机械振动。 游泳运动和机械刺激都在身体表面的机械感觉结构上产生力。 通过整合实验和计算的方法，这项工作探讨了这些力量如何随着刺激和游泳运动而变化。

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 "Modeling the dynamics of mechanoreception in fish." Fish can perceive mechanical vibrations even when water flows over the body during swimming. Both the swimming motion and mechanical stimuli generate forces on mechanosensory structures on the surface of the body. By integrating experimental and computational approaches, this work examines how these forces vary with stimuli and with the swimming motion.