Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2003

这一行动为2003财年NSF微生物生物学博士后奖学金提供了资金。该奖学金支持关于原生动物、微藻、真菌、古生物、细菌和病毒物种的基本生物学的培训和研究，这些物种通常不被认为是模式生物。此外，它还为最近获得博士学位的人提供了在微生物生物学方面获得额外培训的机会，在知名科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并在本科和研究生培训期间拓宽其科学视野，使其超越研究经验。这些奖学金还旨在帮助新科学家引导他们的研究工作跨越传统的学科界限，并利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括外国地点。这项研究和培训计划的标题是“分泌蛋白在质外体侵染植物病原真菌的毒力中的作用”。番茄疫霉菌是番茄的一种病原真菌，它依靠分泌分子进入植物细胞(质外体)之间的间隙而致病。番茄链球菌的分泌蛋白正在被鉴定和鉴定，目的是确定它们在发病机制中的作用。

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 his/her 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 "The role of secreted proteins in the virulence of an apoplast-colonizing plant pathogenic fungus." Septoria lycopersici is a pathogenic fungus of tomato that relies on the secretion of molecules into the space between plant cells (the apoplast) to cause disease. The secreted proteins of S. lycopersici are being identified and characterized with the goal of determining their role in pathogenesis.