Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2003

这一行动为2003财政年度的NSF微生物生物学博士后奖学金提供资金。 该研究金支持关于原生动物、微藻、真菌、古菌、细菌和病毒物种的基础生物学的培训和研究，这些物种通常不被视为模式生物。此外，它为最近的博士生获得微生物生物学的额外培训提供了机会，在既定科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并拓宽他们的科学视野，超越本科和研究生培训期间的研究经验。 这些研究金还旨在协助新科学家将其研究工作跨传统学科进行，并利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括外国地点，研究和培训计划的标题是“植物酚类物质在多氯联苯和多环芳烃根际降解中的作用”。“植物根类黄酮作为降解根际微生物群落中多氯联苯（PCBs）和多环芳烃（PAH）的细菌和真菌底物的作用正在使用基于RNA的稳定同位素探测方法进行研究。 微阵列也被用来调查降解基因诱导的多氯联苯降解细菌生长过程中的类黄酮和其他植物酚类化合物。

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 "Role of plant phenolics in the rhizosphere degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls and polyaromatic hydrocarbons ." The role of plant root flavonoids as substrates for bacteria and fungi that degrade polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the rhizosphere microbial community is being examined using an RNA-based, stable isotope probing method. Microarrays are also being employed to investigate degradative gene induction in a PCB-degrading bacterium during growth on flavonoids and other plant phenolic compounds.