Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2003

2003财年微生物学博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0301202
• 负责人: Christopher Marx
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Marx, Christopher J
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0301202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowship; Microbial; Biology

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2003. The fellowship supports training and research on the basic biology of protozoan, microalgal, fungal, archaeal, bacterial and viral species that are not generally considered to be model organisms. Further, it provides opportunities for recent doctoral recipients to obtain additional training in microbial biology, to gain research experience under the sponsorship of established scientists, and to broaden their scientific horizons beyond the research experiences during the undergraduate and graduate training. These fellowships are further designed to assist new scientists to direct their research efforts across traditional disciplinary lines and to avail themselves of unique research resources, sites, and facilities, including foreign locations.The research and training plan is entitled "In-lab evolution of bacterial metabolism: costs of specialization and the contribution of genetic exchange between organisms." The evolutionary dynamics involved in the maintenance of specialized bacterial metabolism and the role of horizontal gene transfer is being examined using experimental evolution. Physiological analyses and attempts to identify the beneficial mutations in the evolved strains are being performed in order to gain insight into their increased fitness.

这项行动资助了 2003 财年 NSF 微生物学博士后奖学金。 该奖学金支持对原生动物、微藻、真菌、古菌、细菌和病毒物种的基础生物学进行培训和研究，这些物种通常不被认为是模式生物。此外，它还为应届博士生提供了获得微生物生物学方面额外培训的机会，在知名科学家的资助下获得研究经验，并在本科生和研究生培训期间拓宽其研究经验之外的科学视野。 这些奖学金进一步旨在帮助新科学家跨越传统学科领域指导他们的研究工作，并利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括国外地点。研究和培训计划的标题是“细菌代谢的实验室进化：专业化的成本和生物体之间遗传交换的贡献”。正在使用实验进化来检查涉及维持特殊细菌代谢的进化动力学和水平基因转移的作用。 正在进行生理分析并尝试识别进化菌株中的有益突变，以便深入了解它们增强的适应性。