Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 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。这项研究和培训计划的标题是“由完整的线粒体基因组确定的乌龟的系统发育和全球多样性”。在过去的6000万年里，陆龟(龟科)曾行进或漂浮到大多数大陆。尽管有很好的化石记录，但人们对乌龟多样化的模式仍然知之甚少。这项研究使用了龟的线粒体DNA的完整基因组来重建它们的进化史。

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 "The phylogeny and global diversification of tortoises determined with complete mitochondrial genomes." Over the past 60 million years, terrestrial tortoises (Testudinidae) have marched or floated to most continents. Despite a good fossil record, patterns of tortoise diversification are still poorly understood. This research uses complete genomes of mitochrondrial DNA of tortoises to reconstruct their evolutionary history.