Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2003

本行动资助NSF少数民族博士后研究奖学金2003财年。该奖学金的目标是增加博士后水平的少数民族科学家的参与，并为他们在学术界和工业界担任科学领导职位做好准备。为了实现这一目标，该奖学金为最近的博士获得者提供了最高质量的博士后培训和研究机会。预计通过这些研究金支持的研究员将在培训未来劳动力方面发挥重要作用。该研究和培训计划的标题是“重组来源的第一个海洋来源二萜环化酶用于伪蝶蛋白的生物合成。”这项研究正在开发elisabeth ethatriene合成酶的重组来源，elisabeth ethatriene合成酶是一种二萜环化酶，参与抗炎化合物pseudopterosins的生物合成。本研究阐明的原理将为该生物合成途径中其他酶的合成和其他海洋萜类环化酶的克隆奠定基础。

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.