Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2002

2002财年少数族裔博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0208328
• 负责人: Suzanne Estes
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Estes, Suzanne R
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0208328&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Minority; Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowship; FY

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY2002. The goal of the fellowship is to prepare minority scientists for positions of scientific leadership in academia and industry. To attain this goal, the fellowship provides opportunities for postdoctoral training of the highest quality to recent doctoral recipients. This program is an effort by the NSF to increase the number of research scientists from underrepresented minority groups, thereby contributing to the future vitality of the Nation's scientific enterprise. It is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Influence of mating system on patterns of parentage and fitness correlates in a garter snake model, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis." This research explores the role of kin recognition in the mating system by asking whether parental relatedness influences paternal contribution and, in turn, maternal fitness in natural populations of the red-sided garter snake. This constitutes the first test for the presence of kin recognition and first rigorous study of inbreeding depression in any snake species.

这项行动为2002财政年度NSF少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该研究金的目标是培养少数民族科学家担任学术界和工业界的科学领导职务。为了实现这一目标，奖学金提供最高质量的博士后培训机会，以最近的博士获奖者。该计划是美国国家科学基金会的一项努力，旨在增加来自代表性不足的少数群体的研究科学家的数量，从而为国家科学事业的未来活力做出贡献。这项研究计划的研究及培训计划名为“交配系统对束带蛇模型中的亲子关系模式及适合度相关因素的影响”。“这项研究探讨了亲属识别在交配系统中的作用，询问父母的相关性是否会影响父亲的贡献，进而影响母亲在红边束带蛇自然种群中的适应性。 这构成了对亲属识别存在的第一次测试，也是对任何蛇类近亲繁殖衰退的第一次严格研究。