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。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“通过基因组一级的序列比较查明迅速变化的基因及其对向日葵物种形成过程的影响。“如果物种形成是由对不同环境的适应引起的，那么受到不同适应的强选择的基因也可能是物种形成基因。 这项研究使用向日葵物种之间的基因组序列的比较分析，以确定基因上的自然选择是最强的，然后测试，看看这些基因是否参与物种形成。

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 "Identifying rapidly changing genes and their impact on the speciation process in sunflowers through genome level sequence comparisons." If speciation is caused by adaptation to different environments, genes under strong selection for different adaptations may also be speciation genes. This study uses comparative analyses of genome sequences among sunflower species to identify genes on which natural selection is strongest and then tests to see if these genes are involved in speciation.