Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2003

这项行动为2003财政年度NSF少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该研究金的目标是增加少数群体科学家在博士后一级的参与，并使他们为在学术界和工业界担任科学领导职务做好准备。为了实现这一目标，奖学金提供了最高质量的博士后培训和研究的机会，以最近的博士获奖者。 预计通过这些研究金资助的研究员将在培训未来的劳动力方面发挥重要作用。研究和培训计划的标题是“第一个用于假蝶呤生物合成的海洋衍生二萜环化酶的重组来源。“这项研究正在开发一种重组来源的elisabethatriene合酶，一种二萜环化酶参与生物合成的化合物称为pseudopterosins。 在研究中阐明的原则将为生产参与这一生物合成途径的其他酶和克隆其他海洋来源的萜烯环化酶提供基础。

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY2003. The goal of the fellowship is to increase the participation of minority scientists at the postdoctoral level and to prepare them for positions of scientific leadership in academia and industry. To attain this goal, the fellowship provides opportunities for postdoctoral training and research of the highest quality to recent doctoral recipients. It is expected that Fellows supported through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan is entitled "Recombinant source of the first marine-derived diterpene cyclase for pseudopterosin biosynthesis." This research is developing a recombinant source of elisabethatriene synthase, a diterpene cyclase enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of the antiinflammatory compounds called pseudopterosins. The principles elucidated in the research will provide the groundwork for the production of other enzymes involved in this biosynthetic pathway and for the cloning of other marine-derived terpene cyclases.