Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Informatics for FY 2003

跨学科信息学博士后研究奖学金由数学和物理科学（MPS）和生物科学（BIO）理事会联合赞助，以鼓励跨越它们之间传统学科界限的研究和培训。这些奖学金为生物学和信息学的跨学科研究和教育活动提供了机会，以广泛的近期博士获得者（生物学家，化学家，物理学家，数学家，统计学家，计算机科学家等）。预期通过这些研究金培训的研究员将在培训未来劳动力方面发挥重要作用。信息学方面的博士后研究和培训将允许生物学、数学、化学和物理科学方面的初级科学家在开发新的定量工具和方法方面发挥关键作用，这些工具和方法将推动生物学和其他领域的信息学。这项研究和培训计划的标题是“利用当前的技术和计算方法重建过去：利用100年前的博物馆标本研究种群遗传变化”。该研究项目将开发单核苷酸多态性（SNP）遗传标记，用于研究过去100年来收集的口袋地鼠（Thomomys bottae）。该项目还将显示历史样本是否能提供对种群遗传变化的深入了解。已发表的SNP数据库将有助于设计SNP实验，以最好地了解地鼠种群动态。

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Informatics are sponsored jointly by the Directorates for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) and Biological Sciences (BIO) to encourage research and training that cross the traditional disciplinary boundaries between them. These fellowships provide opportunities for interdisciplinary research and educational activities in biology and informatics to a wide range of recent doctoral recipients (biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, and others). It is expected that the Fellows trained through these fellowships will play an important role in training the future workforce. Postdoctoral research and training in informatics will permit junior scientists trained in biology, mathematical, chemical, and physical sciences to play key roles in developing new quantitative tools and methods that will advance informatics in biology and other fields.The research and training plan is entitled "Reconstructing the past using current technological and computational methods: studying population genetic change using 100-year-old museum specimens." This research project will develop single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genetic markers to study pocket gophers (Thomomys bottae) that have been collected over the past 100 years. The project will also show whether historic samples provide insight into genetic change in populations. Published SNP databases will assist in designing SNP experiments to best understand gopher population dynamics.