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，它还为新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他们的科学视野，超越研究经验。这些奖学金的进一步设计是为了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。研究和培训计划的标题是“植物酚类在多氯联苯和多环芳烃根际降解中的作用”。植物根黄酮作为降解根际微生物群落中多氯联苯(PCbs)和多环芳烃(PAHs)的细菌和真菌的底物，正在使用一种基于RNA的稳定同位素探测方法进行研究。微阵列也被用来研究在黄酮类和其他植物酚类化合物上生长期间降解多氯联苯降解菌的降解基因诱导。

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.